Anyway, like I said, I've been working my way through the book, and I'm in the Thursday section right now. And the last two puzzles I solved were, in fact, puzzles I had already solved. That is, I remember them from the paper. I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, it's sort of irritating -- how can I get better if I'm practicing on puzzles I've already solved? On the other hand, doing the puzzles a second time demonstrates how far I've come in the last year as a solver. The last one I did (which appeared in the paper on August 2, 2006) caused me fits the first time I saw it. This time was much easier, of course, in no small part because I rememered the gimmick and was thus able to fill in most of the theme answers right away, but the rest of the fill came a lot easier than before, and I didn't remember any of that. Still, I think all things being equal, I'd rather practice on puzzles I haven't already solved.
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Anyway, like I said, I've been working my way through the book, and I'm in the Thursday section right now. And the last two puzzles I solved were, in fact, puzzles I had already solved. That is, I remember them from the paper. I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, it's sort of irritating -- how can I get better if I'm practicing on puzzles I've already solved? On the other hand, doing the puzzles a second time demonstrates how far I've come in the last year as a solver. The last one I did (which appeared in the paper on August 2, 2006) caused me fits the first time I saw it. This time was much easier, of course, in no small part because I rememered the gimmick and was thus able to fill in most of the theme answers right away, but the rest of the fill came a lot easier than before, and I didn't remember any of that. Still, I think all things being equal, I'd rather practice on puzzles I haven't already solved.
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Two down, ten to go
It’s the first day of March, which means I’ve made it through another month of posting content to my LJ every day. Woo! I’m not going to be posting…
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On U.S. Capitol statuary
Yesterday, a statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks was unveiled in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol: Photo credit:…
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Advent art map and statistics
This is kind of neat; I used the map feature of Flickr to plot the locations of the works of art I featured during my Advent art project (minus the…
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