Recent Posts

31

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on July 12, 2025, 12:12:15 pm »

🙂 Daily Quordle 1265
9️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ RATIO
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ PLUME
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ CLASP
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 STAIN
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 CANNY
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 FANNY
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 NANNY
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ BREAK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ WREAK

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ RATIO
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ PLUME
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ CLASP
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STAIN
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

32

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by CellarDweller on July 12, 2025, 12:06:01 pm »

Wordle 1,484 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ RATIO
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 PLUME
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 WHILE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EXILE

33

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by Front-Ranger on July 12, 2025, 10:09:44 am »

Wordle 1,484 4/6*

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩  PASTE
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩  FENCE
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩  ERODE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩  EXILE

WordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 57/99

Connections
Puzzle #762
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

34

Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings

« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on July 11, 2025, 10:04:12 pm »

My stepmother has done the two different contacts thing for decades and says it works fine for her. My doctor said that although there are progressive cataract lenses he refuses to install them unless the person has used the two distances in contacts form. I'd never had contacts -- I only started wearing reading glasses in my 40s -- so I wasn't about to start then. I got the distance lenses and use reading glasses, or better yet progressive reading glasses that are clear on top so I don't have to keep putting them on and taking them off. I was given a prescription, but I've never used it -- you can buy them online for less than $100. (Or from a drug store for even less if you're not picky about the frame shapes and colors.) They're not perfect, but close enough -- I can drive or watch TV without glasses and the rest of the time I wear the progressives.

After my surgeries I got some drug store reading glasses, but then I asked my doctor for a prescription for progressive lenses, and I just wear the glasses all the time. I can drive without glasses. I have sunglasses that aren't prescription lenses; I wear them to drive. The drug store readers actually seem to be better for close work on my model trains than the prescription glasses.

For some time, I've been trying to remember how long I had contacts. I know I got them while I was in college. In my college graduation pictures, which were taken in the fall of 1979, ahead of my May 1980 graduation, I'm not wearing glasses. But then I also remember walking into a bar in Philadelphia on a cold winter night and thinking, This is great; with contacts I don't have to worry about glasses fogging up! I estimate that would have been the early/cold months of 1988. But that seems like too long a time span for me to have had contacts, unless I had them for longer than I realize/remember. 

35

The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...

« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on July 11, 2025, 09:46:55 pm »

Ohhh, I misread it, too. Then I googled it and found that there've been at least a few (probably false) claims that Lincoln's wife had slaves and he sold them at some point, though perhaps not until she died. That doesn't sound very Lincolnesque to me. Especially because even in some cases presidents who owned slaves freed them rather than profited on their sale. Still, freeing them suggests that they knew in their heart of hearts that slavery was wrong but were too used to having the help while they were alive.

Do you mean "Washington" here?

36

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by Front-Ranger on July 11, 2025, 07:25:17 pm »

Yes, it was quite hard. Sometimes purple is homonyms and sometimes it's synonyms, but homonyms of synonyms? That's cruel and unusual. I lucked out.

37

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by serious crayons on July 11, 2025, 06:24:57 pm »

I'm with you on that, Sonja!

Connections
Puzzle #761
🟩🟨🟩🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟩🟦🟩
🟦🟪🟩🟦

 

I thought this one was particularly hard. Congratulations to people who got it in four guesses!



Luckily for my ego, I did somewhat better on Wordle.

Wordle 1,483 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ SHIRT
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ DRAPE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRAND

WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 65/99

38

Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings

« Last post by serious crayons on July 11, 2025, 05:36:00 pm »

Whatever you do about the cataracts, do not get lenses that are for distance and close up (I think they put one for distance in one eye, and one for close up in the other eye). I've never heard anyone say anything good about that. Get both eyes "fixed" for distance and use reading glasses.

My stepmother has done the two different contacts thing for decades and says it works fine for her. My doctor said that although there are progressive cataract lenses he refuses to install them unless the person has used the two distances in contacts form. I'd never had contacts -- I only started wearing reading glasses in my 40s -- so I wasn't about to start then. I got the distance lenses and use reading glasses, or better yet progressive reading glasses that are clear on top so I don't have to keep putting them on and taking them off. I was given a prescription, but I've never used it -- you can buy them online for less than $100. (Or from a drug store for even less if you're not picky about the frame shapes and colors.) They're not perfect, but close enough -- I can drive or watch TV without glasses and the rest of the time I wear the progressives.

39

The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...

« Last post by serious crayons on July 11, 2025, 05:29:02 pm »

I'm afraid I had to read FRiend Lee's post a couple of times before it got through my thick skull that she meant going back in time to George Washington, not Abraham Lincoln returning to Washington. D.C.

Ohhh, I misread it, too. Then I googled it and found that there've been at least a few (probably false) claims that Lincoln's wife had slaves and he sold them at some point, though perhaps not until she died. That doesn't sound very Lincolnesque to me. Especially because even in some cases presidents who owned slaves freed them rather than profited on their sale. Still, freeing them suggests that they knew in their heart of hearts that slavery was wrong but were too used to having the help while they were alive.

It's amazing how hypocritical some of the Founders were. What??! National leaders are never hypocritical, are they?? 

But that they could live with statements like "all men are created equal" while also owning humans suggests to me that they had completely accepted the idea that Black people were inferior beings and not entitled to the same rights and freedoms, that slavery was their proper role in life. We're just lucky that they stated the noble sentiment in vague language, rather than "all land-owning white males were created equal," or things like the Civil Rights Act would have been even more difficult to get through.





 

40

The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by Sason on July 11, 2025, 05:01:23 pm »

Connections
Puzzle #761
🟨🟨🟩🟨
🟨🟨🟩🟩
🟦🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟩🟪🟩