Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

A long, slow congested drive into work this morning. Roads were good for the most part. Argh.

Games Magazine is doing another Calculatrivia contest. It's a contest where there is a huge equation, and you have to figure out all the variables (I think there are 42 or so) based on clues. The clues range all over the place in terms of what you have to figure out. For instance: Smallest integer, greater than 3, that leaves a remainder of 3 or less when divided by any integer from 1 to 16. Or, here's another one: Plate number of a sheet of US 2 cent stamps issued in 1917 that erroneously contained some 5 cent stamps. And some clues are *way* more complicated than that. But, it's fun to do. Paul had me help with some clues on the first one of these contests way back around 1992 or so. The first prize is $1500, and then 10 T-shirts.

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