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- You have to have Java running on your system to load the puzzle applets to begin with.
- You need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to print the puzzles.
- Go here and click on either of the puzzles partway down the page.
- Once the puzzle loads, you should see a little toolbar running across the top of the puzzle. One of the buttons on it is a button to print the puzzle. Click that.
- A dialog should pop up asking you exactly what you want to print, a blank grid, a solution with clues, etc. Make a selection and click OK.
- An Adobe Acrobat Reader window should load with the thing you're going to print. You need to print said thing from within Reader.
| Friday, May 16th, 2008 | ||
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lyonesse |
11:35a | in advance.... . i could take on another two riding students (the mom-and-daughter pair are away in the carolinas, and one of my students from last year seems to have slid into depression and away from horses, alas). let me know if any of you are interested. . wanna ride for sure sat. morning. . pahty pahty pahty going on all weekend, as far as i can tell from the invite. i want to go, but when? ...scul fixin' stuff sat. afternoon ...scul riding around and dancing sat. night ...pony pony pony trail ride with seniormost sunday afternoon ......which of these do i skip for sake of pahtying? . in other news, i need to wash my hair. , in even other news, thanks ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chaiya for breakfast time and helping me improve the state of my toe through creative footwear modification, and sensesurfer and desert_born for "laughter and drunkenness", and thanks to every one of you for all the good things that you do :) Current Mood:  busy |
| Thursday, May 15th, 2008 | ||
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mamishka |
10:55p | Just FYI I may not be posting here a whole heck of a lot because I'll be posting over on media_babe for the most part during the festival. So if you're wondering what I'm up to, that's where you'll probably find out. ;-) So far I've seen nine movies in the festival. Off to a good start! Current Mood:  silly |
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annathepiper |
6:58p | BFFN 2: Revenge of BFFN Some of y'all will have noted that on Tuesday, I had me Take 2 of the biopsy that was originally scheduled for the first. This afternoon, ever so conveniently timed to happen right during the first morale event we've had on my floor in months, I got the call with the results. Long story short: DCIS, round 2. I'd say I'm infuriated, aggravated, pissed off, and all of these things would be true, but honestly, I'm just tired. This makes it official: six years in a row of medical crap. I don't even have enough energy at this point to really work up more than a token level of pissed-offedness, despite the icon. Spoke with two different doctors on my way out of the ship party, since they were willing to talk to me over the phone and I wanted answers now. ( What they told me on the phone... ) Tonight, there will be booze, 'cause really, if anything warrants getting plastered, this is it. Current Mood:  pissed off |
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lyonesse |
6:02p | re: my brain my pda doesn't seem to be ringing and dinging as it should :( if i have missed an appointment/meeting/message/vmail from you, please to reschedule/resend? i still can't find my camera either. yrs on lameass standard time.... |
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lyonesse |
12:44p | toe update today i am wearing the old (pre-new-rock) rock star boots (with the leopard trim). they were custom-made about twelve years ago and have long since lost their original linings, but with socks they are pretty comfortable, and the toe doesn't hurt any more than it does barefoot, as long as i don't whack it on things. thanks for all the well-wishes and advice! if the rock star boots don't work out (the soles are flat and totally flexible, being made of conveyor-belt material) i will try the orthopedic one, although ime my stiffer-soled boots made things rather worse. |
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annathepiper |
9:36a | This one's for the Ubuntu geeks On a different but also work-related note, for giggles and grins, I've tried to set up a VMWare virtual machine install of Ubuntu's latest build. This is for two reasons: 1) we occasionally get user-reported issues about pages being broken when viewed in Linux, and it's nice to have a way to test these, and 2) I just wanted to look at Ubuntu anyway because I never had before. So I borrowed a Live CD of the latest build, Hardy Heron, from one of our engineers and set the thing up. Followed the expected install process, got it all up and running... Only now, the VM won't load unless the Live CD is still in the drive. If I try to run the VM without it, it hangs VMWare hardcore and I can't kill it. I wind up having to reboot the box. I've Googled around a bit and have seen pages that talk about issues getting Hardy Heron up and running as a Virtual PC VM. However, the advice I saw giving for fixing those issues didn't seem pertinent to my install, possibly because it's a different VM system. Anybody got any experience with getting Ubuntu running as a VMWare VM and know what sort of problem I may be having here, and if so how to fix it? Thanks in advance. |
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annathepiper |
9:22a | Can anybody repro a puzzle printing problem for me? Hey folks, We're getting Webmaster emails at work about users having issues printing off the two crossword puzzles we're running on our Comics & Games page--the New York Times crossword as well as the Newsday one. We've had one user report that when he tries to print the NY Times one, he gets a dialog asking what he wants to print, and when he makes his selection and clicks okay, nothing happens. Another user is having issues where when he tries to print the puzzles, they come out as garbage characters along half the page. I can't repro either of these issues on our internal LAN. Can anybody out there repro them? Here's what you need to do: If this process doesn't work for you, sing out, and please to let me know what puzzle you tried, what browser you're using, what OS, and what version of Acrobat Reader. Thanks in advance, all. :) |
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lyonesse |
9:30a | meme of the moment! ganked from my two beautiful pale friends: some of you i know by sight, some of you i'd never guess -- either way, i would love to see you! post a pic of yourself in comments if you're up for playing :) |
| Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | ||
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annathepiper |
8:13p | Battlestar Galactica 4.04-4.06: Anna gets caught up Dude, I am severely behind on my Battlestar review posts! Part of this, I have to admit, is that to some degree BSG is just not engaging me as heavily this season; the unremitting grim of the show is no longer adequately offset by likable aspects of the characters. I'm not feeling the Roslin love this season (with the exception, I grant, of episode 4.06), Lee has become a lot less interesting to me now that he's gone off to join the Quorum of Twelve, and even my and solarbird's TV Girlfriend Starbuck has gotten just a touch too crazy for me to really like as much anymore. In fact, the only character I'm still rather liking is Sam.All that said, though, I'm still definitely intrigued by the overall events going on. The last three episodes have given us some tasty WTFery, and the whole building Cylon civil war? Booya. BRING IT. ( 4.04: Escape Velocity... ) ( 4.05: The Road Less Traveled... ) ( 4.06: Faith ) And, that'll do me for quick and dirty review comments. We'll see if I can do a full post for next week's episode; now, I gotta go edit something! |
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annathepiper |
7:45p | Doctor Who 30.06: "The Doctor's Daughter" Well now, that was fun, and isn't this a new and interesting wrinkle thrown into the universe, eh? ( Spoiler samples in the machine... ) |
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lyonesse |
10:16p | on extremely mild disability and my place in others' lives (incl. riding log) i broke my toe. it got a little better, then i appear to have re-injured it, possibly saturday night/sunday morning. so, umm, i kind of can't walk so well. in fact standing hurts too. wearing shoes, not so good either. the worst aspect of this is that i can't walk the dog. she gives me this wistful look every time someone else (and thank you ALL) takes her out. i spent most of today lying in bed snuggling the dog and she still gave me *that look* when seniormost took her for her walk. it nearly breaks my heart. another thing i did today was ride, which turns out to also sort of suck, as i cannot put my weight properly in my stirrups without distressing the toe. so i sometimes rode without them, and every time i dismounted i had to make sure to just land on the *other* foot. overall i had a very hard time "finding my ground" as they put it in centered riding. on the up side, i did more (and probably better) cantering without stirrups than probably ever before in my life. so the riding log: first goddessfarmer rode ljufur and i rode stjarni on ljufur's first trail ride out at our place! there was tack eitage: the pony is too roly-poly for the saddle, but too small for the girth to really fit; the reins too short; the sidepull too large (for which we compensated by braiding and knotting my hair ribbon into the noseband). that said everything was just stellar; ljufur had one brief hesitation at the bridge but readily followed stjarni when ponied. goddessfarmer approves of ljufur's gaits. his steering needs a little work, and he was panting and tired after a two-mile, mostly-walk trail ride, but overall -- outstanding :)when we returned i hopped up on ljufur for just a few minutes of circle/halt/walk on/back up practice, which went great too. then seniormost and i went out on the trail again, me back on stjarni, him on cheyenne. this was awesome. we went out to the parking lot, which is probably four miles or so, largely at trot (stjarni was being incredibly trotty for some reason, which i encourage), and back largely at a nice canter. then stjarni was panting and hot, and my toe had long since driven me bananas, and it took s quite awhile to cool out b/c he had to walk with me *on* him as i could not have kept up alongside. then i came home and my toe had swollen up again (probably from the standing around and walking a bit while grooming) and now it's more topical ibuprofen and whining on livejournal. perhaps this is the story of my life. the dog's still out being walked. i miss the dog. |
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annathepiper |
7:13p | Book Log #32: The Witches' Hammer, by Jane Stanton Hitchcock The lesson I learned from reading The Witches' Hammer is this: just because it says 'Hitchcock' on the cover, no matter how much I may want it to, this does not mean I'm about to read a deliciously complicated mystery worthy of old Alfred. And this is my own damn fault, because a big part of why I bought this book is because the name 'Hitchcock' grabbed me. Sure, not Alfred. But once the name got my attention, I read the blurb and saw a review snippet that called the thing 'elegant', so I thought, okay, I'll give this a shot. On the surface, the core of the plot is sound. We've got a youngish heroine whose book collector father is murdered when he acquires a notorious grimoire, and the blurb promises intrigue as she and her ex-husband and an occultist book collector track down what the deal is with this grimoire. We've got the obligatory Secret Society that's an offshoot of fundamentalist Catholicism. We've got the heroine wandering all over the world as she tries to put all the pieces together. But here's where the book falls down: the vast majority of it is just people talking to one another. There's hardly any interesting action, and most of this is at the end, far too late to keep me from wishing that the characters would stop yapping to one another and get into a good ol' fashioned shootout or car chase or brawl in a dark alley. Right in the wake of this is the other issue I have with this novel, which is to say, a lot of the aforementioned character dialogue is caught up with gender politics--as personified by the heroine and her ex-husband sniping at one another about how "you guys want this" and "you gals feel that". This got pretty tiresome to read after a while, and wasn't helped much by the description of how the grimoire equated women with evil, ravening succubi. Don't get me wrong, this is potentially powerful stuff to write about; for me as a reader, though, this particular story didn't handle it well. It came across more heavy-handed to me than anything else. Now, all this said, I should also give this book credit for doing a few unusual things. It is unabashed in giving us a heroine who plain flat out does not care for sex, and the experiences she has towards the beginning of the plot don't particularly resolve this question for her. Neither do either of the main male characters, which surprised me, and which I rather respect--"I don't know if I like sex, but I certainly didn't like it with you" is a refreshing attitude to see in a novel. I was also rather startled by the final fates of the main characters, on which I won't elaborate here, since that involves spoilers. All in all this was ultimately unsatisfying to me, though there's enough here that it could work for a different reader. For me, two and a half stars. |
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | ||
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solarbird |
9:13p | I haven't posted enough flower pictures lately  Not, In Fact, Clover Current Mood:  okay |
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lyonesse |
3:20p | picture! credit to whitebird -- this is me and stjarni and seniormost and cheyenne, on our return from our trail ride on sunday :) |
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solarbird |
12:03a | before it goes away again I've never seen this before. It's Bill O'Reilly being a dick on the set of Inside Edition. No, it's not worksafe. Also, it won't stay up long. ( Memes yay! ) Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: Perfect Way | Scritti Politti |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 | ||
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lyonesse |
11:10p | parts is parts (mostly not mine) toe: still broken. apparently re-wrecked it somehow (it was, umm, hurting less and not as red), probably b/c ooh-la-la has about one inch of clearance between the pedal at the bottom of the crank and the ground, and bottoms out on any rough patch of pavement or if, heaven forbid, you have the inside pedal down going around a curve. took ibuprofen sunday morning, forgot today, am regretting it even post-megadose and topical. backs: ljufur's back is like two soft poofy pillows with a dent in between. stjarni, however, has developed a distinct, if not uncomfortable, spine. digestive systems: i can't seem to find a single cat food that will handle winter's tendency towards tooth decay, maggie's slightly delicate digestion, and dj spooky's apparently-allergic asthma. next (and this note is the real reason i am making this post) "nutro senior cat" (they previously hated the weight-management version, alas). sleep: why is everybody always so tired? me included, this time. to-do list: check to roofer shoes to sweden notary; notarized thingy to dad check to house cleaner finish cleaning mud room update old class laptops .... yeah, must be time to sleep. Current Mood:  exhausted |
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lyonesse |
8:16p | gratuitous icon post... because rising_moon rocks my tiny little world, and because she *knows* what rocks my tiny little world :) Current Mood:  pleased |
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lyonesse |
7:26p | interest: heavy scheduling (riding logs) i still haven't even made notes on last weekend's clinic, and this weekend oodles more happened. so i will start small, and just make notes on saturday's riding/teaching on both horses and sunday's ride/pony-ride on stjarni, for right now: SATURDAY: brought a rope sidepull that elf my elf had bought. experimented with it in "bit and bridle" mode with student in tack room, which worked fine. stuck it on stjarni, got on myself. annoyed rather by overly-short reins, but w/t/t/c, halts, turns, lateral work all went just fine. so spent a few minutes on then put student up. stjarni was alas frustrating for student. it got a little better when i was in the tack room and out of sight, but basically he's attending to me not her, and that is all kinds of bad. i got on again to check the tack; it was fine. eventually put him back in the snaffle bridle, which was about the same. sigh. not a great day for teaching :/ then switched the rope to ljufur, checked him out (my GOD he's fat; he wobbles when he walks). walk, turns, halt, back, tolt, all fine (bareback). put student on. he's quite willing for her, but not quite always able to figure out what she wants. for all i know he'll end up being the better schoolie.....! SUNDAY: late start (eventually will post about scul mission maybe?) elf my elf came to play with ljufur (i free-lunged him, which i forgot to mention i'd done on saturday, and taught elf my elf how). i gave whitebird (in town for reasons possibly further discussed wrt the scul mission, as funnier in that context, plus he took photos which might eventually illustrate alla this) a pony ride, and he had the typical tolt grin, which pleases me no end. meanwhile seniormost tried schooling cheyenne in the sidepull, which may turn out to be a reasonable thing, but switched him back to his regular bridle before seniormost and i went out on the trail. meanwhile ljufur got the sidepull, and elf my elf did more ground work with him. (it's not enough that *i'm* busy, i have to drag everybody i know into doing everything *with* me....) elf my elf also mounted (very funny, he just swings his leg over :) and did some work from ljufur's back, which i think went quite well.i wanted to talk briefly about my trail ride -- it was TEH AWESOME. we started at the water jump, which cheyenne was looking dubious about; stjarni and i walked right around him and plunged in. brilliant :) then we walked over the hill, past the barking dog without a sideways glance. as soon as we hit the far side of the bridge we headed out to joe's barn, and except for a few steps where we turned around, we did not walk a single stride. slow tolt, fast tolt, nice trot, lots of cantering, a teeny bit of hand gallop at the end. then the "ghost trail" back, including pointing pony at a fallen tree a foot or so off the ground -- and stjarni's little ears pricked up and he picked up a canter and whee! right over it! and then the necessary bushwhacking since the ghost trail doesn't really end anywhere useful, and i just sort of aim my faithful steed uphill and duck the branches and away we go. and cheyenne with us every step of the way. not the longest ride in the world, but perhaps one of the most perfect. horses make me happy. sharing the joy of horses with people makes me happy too. Current Mood: busy |
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mamishka |
2:43a | Monster Madness! So a certain subsection of my friends that I've been out of touch with for awhile have clearly been, in catching up on their Live Journals, obsessed with a vampire TV show called Moonlight. I remembered hearing about it coming out, but unlike Pushing Daisies or Chuck I didn't hear much about it other than that and had actually forgotten all about it since it first came out. But I've been in a big fantasy/sci fi downloading kick lately and suddenly thought, "Hey, I should check it out and see what I think!" I have to admit, I'm not generally big into the vampire TV shows. I find most of them just too cheesy for my personal tastes. I caught one episode of Blood Ties and it didn't work for me at all. I think the only vampire show I've seen and liked was Angel, and I already had a pretty heavy bias going into that thanks to Buffy ... plus Joss Whedon is, on occasion, my Master. ;-) So tonight I thought, what the heck and watched the first episode. First thing that struck me was the female star. Recognized her right off, but couldn't place from where until I did a search on IMDB. Turns out she's Sophia Myles, who played Reinette in possibly one of the best Doctor Who episodes The Girl in the Fireplace. Okay, now I'm intrigued! Guy looked familiar too. Seems that he played the brother of Jonathan Rhys Myers in August Rush. In a total aside here, ever notice how it seems like nearly everyone in American TV shows are actually not Americans? To give you a few examples we have Apollo from Battlestar Galactica (English), Harry from The Dresden Files (English), John Amsterdam from New Amsterdam (Dutch? Danish?), and now these two ... just to name the ones that I know about. Most of them have such flawless American accents I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't looked them up on IMDB. I was interested to learn that the reason why this is because there apparently is a dearth of 30-40 year old high quality actors in the United States. Hummmina-wha? But yes, I read that apparently if you're an actor in the states of that age you either suck, have quit being an actor, or have made it big time and have no interest in doing television. Actors abroad, however, are talented, beautiful, and totally willing to put on American accents and do television. Fascinating. We really do have to import everything nowadays, don't we? So to all you 30-40 something actors out there? Dust off your resumes, cause apparently there's work now! But I can't say I'm complaining, because there has been some mighty fine acting going on. And despite myself I find that I am now completely obsessed with Moonlight. I don't know if I can rightfully say whether it is 'good' or 'bad'. All I do know is that is apparently is as addictive as crack for me personally. There have definitely been some wince worthy moments and the cheesy sort of stuff that always seems to happen when you have a show about vampires ... but here I am, still watching and craving more like a junkie who needs her fix. I have been watching episode after episode and now that I have finished episode 5 I am chafing at the bit as episode 6 is still downloading, kinda hoping against hope that somehow it will be done in the next few minutes, rather than the next few hours that Azureus is telling me. ~whimper~ I'm obsessed, or repressed, or one of those 'essed' words. Argh! And yes, writing this post is in no small part a stall tactic in the hopes that the 3 hour wait time will have magically dropped to 3 minutes by now. Lordy, how pathetic I am! Current Mood:  addicted |
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lyonesse |
12:28a | nutshell stuff i always talk about: saturday: ride stjarni, ride ljufur, scul mission sunday: ride stjarni, school ljufur, elf and ljufur other stuff: lots (overall, panic < < squee, yay :) |
| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | ||
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solarbird |
2:52p | Four by Five Thousand  Four by Five Thousand I like this little tree; there are two of them at Murkworks South, fairly low-growing, with these large clusters of highly aromatic flowers I'd walk under in the spring. They've been on site at Murkworks South for a long time, though I don't know how long; we'll get a small number of seedlings every year, so last year I brought one up to Murkworks North and planted it. It must like the location, since it's flowered right away. Current Mood: okay |
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solarbird |
2:50p | |
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mamishka |
10:22a | Your Loooooooove Doctor! darthhellokitty posted this first, but it's so brilliant that I gotta share the loooooove! So without further delay, come on board the Love Boat with the Doctor! >;-)Current Mood: amused |
| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | ||
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annathepiper |
11:18p | "Oh yeah. I can FLY." spazzkat, solarbird, and I just got back from seeing Iron Man. And okay, yeah, sure, we're a week late to the party... but now at least I can join my voice to the chorus of DUDE THAT TOTALLY ROCKED.( Spoilers at 10 percent... ) |
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annathepiper |
5:00p | Book Log #31: The Queen's Bastard, by C.E. Murphy There are times when I read a book so well-put together, so deliciously complex, and so generally OH-MY-inducing that I despair of ever trying to write anything as good, much less sell it. The Queen's Bastard, latest offering from the redoubtable mizkit, is one of those times.For starters, the setting is quite unusual for a fantasy novel. This thing is basically alternate history fantasy--all the names have been changed, but any reader will definitely recognize Europe of the 16th century here, complete with a queen on one of the pertinent thrones that we all should find very, very familiar. ;) And there's magic--or rather, I should say, very interesting telepathic and telekinetic abilities possessed by the most major characters, the source of which is hinted at to be something rather more appropriate to a science fiction novel. And the sex... oh my yes, there's sex. But I am quite satisfied (aheh) to note that this novel has, hands down, the most effective use of sex I have read in quite some time. Our heroine cuts a swath through any number of men through this novel, from a lowly coachman clear up to a prince who turns out to share her secret abilities--and yet, every single sexual encounter is a means to an end, propelling Belinda through a web of increasingly complicated intrigue, and some of them come back to haunt her and hard. One scene in particular--you'll know it when you get to it--was quite intense, almost alarming, enough that I found myself genuinely challenged about whether I actually liked the heroine. (I'm still pondering that! Belinda is extremely effective as a character, but all throughout the book I was rather torn between cheering her on and muttering "Bitch!" at the page.) It amused me, too--and this may well amuse Kit when she reads this--that I got a big Elfquest vibe off of this story. And in particular, a vibe of Belinda as a very young Winnowill. Particularly in that aforementioned intense and alarming scene. I finished this thing up this afternoon, and am in awe. Awe, I tell you. Four stars! Current Mood:  daaaaaamn, Kit! |