whats up andy

how was sm. grp?

nm, just got here, just went to waffle house w/ residents

it was pretty good

nice

waho is always good. I figured i could take a short break for a little sudoku

theres always time for iron

do u have a link to samurai?

only what google gives me

aight

you're gonna have to keep me awake in stats tom.

I gotta be on campus at 7.... guh!

why so early? i still have to finish stats, did u finish it?

ive only got one more problem to do

did u do 5.1.4 h? cuz i know i couldnt do it at first glance, and i doubt im functioning enough to get it tonight

finished

that ones pretty easy, you just normalize the distributions, adjust the bounds accordingly and use the table in the back

just like part g?

oh, those you have to work backwards, use the table first, then find what expression for the bound represents the unnormalized version (multiply by sigma and add the median)

okidoke

oh sm grp, read through chapter 8 for next week

can do

ooo, theres a hidden triplet

it cant be hidden when you use greens, thats why i hate using them

hey, im rusty... this is only to get my skills back to what they were 6 months ago

done

woohoo

done

night all

oh dear, five days behind...

1 down

2 sowb

err, 2 down

3 down

go - i will prolly use greens early/often...

4 down, now for todays

all done

jealous, but at least i havent used greens yet...

Not too bad, 53 minutes for all five.

I use greens all the time, except occasionally on easy ones.

But then I try to minimize my time wasted on here ;-)

wasted? nah - brain exercise... ;)

ahh yeah. cya

ciao.

done - cool. no greens! wheee...

Done. Needed greens.

at a quick glance it looks like I will need greens to.

cool another one under the belt. have a good day all

At Last! I've been working on an archive since yesterday. I got as deep as my 4th guess and it still wouldn't work out. Finally found my mistake prior to my setpoint. AARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I love this game!!!???

im stuck on this one

not yet stuck, but going incredibly slow, yes!

hursh?

yeah

so hard

hi there :)

seems ok to me so far

hi hursh

hiya everyone :)

I am being slow, but still going - guess that is something

what's my screen name?? lol : D

9676

thanks : )

DONE!

Hiya, everyone......just signed up as a pro sudokuer!!!!!!

this one is hard

wtg movieman!

and welcome :)

finally got it. with a few guesses though...

I took my time filling in my own greens, but now it is flowing without guessing.

yups, got it, no guesses, but needed greens.

if you have 39, 139, 139 in a row, can you safely eliminate 1s, 3s and 9s from the rest of the row?

or just the 3s and 9s?

yes, patgas, all 3

thanks

yw

that was a good one! One force (guess) turned out well.

yess finished finally

go

had to do a guess-thread -- probably didn't, something looked like an x-wing or y-wing but I don't fully grok those

grok?

done

Go.

Difficulty score 49. Tough work without the greens. The computer used hidden and naked triplets.

I've never seen so many greens.

Is my distinguished colleague hurshy in the house?

Darn it. Some mistake. Fortunately I haven't gone very far.

oh, drwho, sorry, i was babbling

hey, Hurshy

hey limer :)

*kiss*

*kiss*

been doing well?

Hi hurshy, I hope we will be more agreeable today :-).

lol drwho

i'm ok limer, thanks, and you?

Did you get any advice from you father today?

excellent except for work

no

i didn't get advice from my father yesterday either

i was referring to some general advice he gave me often as a child

what's wrong with work, limer? just its existence?

I would love some advice from my faterh

Father, stupid computers

Oh. I've been reading the old chat logs to collect data for my little project.

you mean, timing people?

Yes.

What kind of "general advice" helps with Sudoku?

"use your head for something other than a hat rack"

How about "Fill in the spaces with numbers." EH?

Aaah! I heard that one many times.

lol

Limer, you sound Canadian! But your flag says otherwise.

Or maybe your dad was Canadian, EH?

i like to say "oot and aboot"

I lived in the UP for 7 years, donchknow.

That sounds Scotish.

The UP? Ever listen to the UPers?

nyet

I had a roommate from the UP who introduced me to them.

k

They were a "musical" group from the UP, mostly comedy.

Are you using the term "musical" loosly?

look at this, two boys, holding a conversation all by themselves.

They were ok, but they did more comedy than music.

Musicians can be pretty bad and still fun to listen too.

Didn't mean to leave you out hurshy.

no, no

i was finishing babble

and was proud of boys talking

we don't have as many boys on babble and sudoku as girls, by a long shot, so is unusual to see a male-male convo

She called me a male. *blush*

Yes, I understand that women use about twice as many words in a day than men.

or about 10 times, really

and most of mine are on these two websites, lol

Careful Limer...

Limer, I've been called worse.

careful about what, UDbmas

limer, you've seen the claymation rudolph, i assume?

yup

ten times more words?

then you will know the appropriate reaction if i say, "limer, i think you're cute"

He looks like a tree from this angle...

SHE THINKS I'M CUTE!!! *fly through the air*

*skuffle with friend*

*fake nose pops off*

*red nose*

That's only if I land, eh?

His nose! It blinks like a blinkin' beacon!

I'm still in the air.

Do I have to land?

... resorting to greens already...harumpppppppppf

well, it's mighty lonely up there...

i gotta go clean myself up, ttfn

k

*sigh*

bye bye.

Later, drwho. Keep up the great series, eh?

Bye Limer.

tough one indeed!

dang. messed up. back to the beginning. I thought I had it.

that's what I did too - suddenly I had 3 gaps left in a line, and nowhere to put the 9

the 9 got me too

Zugzug, I must ask. Warcraft?

of course! From WII to be precise. Been playing forever it seems. My pc at home is down right now. Haven't been able to play for a month. I mis WoW.

I just got a new computer. There art in that game is better than I ever knew. =)

*the

It's fantastic. Blizzard always makes great games. You been playing long?

Since February 2005. I missed the earlier games, though.

About as long as I have on WoW. I think my power supply went out. As soon as I get enough money I'll have to get it fixed.

Last time I was on, my gullde were about to kill Ragnaros for the first time.

And now that the expansion is out I feel like I'm missing everything.

Nah. There's lots of stuff, sure...but it'll be there for a long time.

Zugzug, a power supply costs about $35. Very easy to replace.

but it may be my hard drive or even mother board. I've had nothing but trouble since I got this pc 2 years ago. It's even been in the shop twice.

If its the power supply, no power lights come on, no drive lights, nothing. No noises from the hard drive, nothing.

I bought a barebones kit and tried to put it together with the parts from both pc's but it didnt' work. Not sure what the problem is.

Were you careful about static electicity?

It powers up but then quits. When booting it gets to the Windows screen and then crashes.

I tried to but wasn't wearing a static strap.

Sounds more like hard drive. Corrupt sectors in a sensitive spot.

What version of Windows?

XP Media 2005

If you have the Windows installation disk, put it in the CD drive and boot from CD. It should allow you to try to repair the Windows installation.

I'll try that. I have the disks.... somewhere. I think one of my NY resolutions was to be more organized.

Good luck.

Thanks. I used to be pretty good at this stuff. Taught myself how to use Dos 3.1 way back in the 80's but pc's are getting pretty complicated compared to then.

VISTA IS A HORRID OPERATING SYSTEM

I've heard good things but it isnt' even out yet.

I work for MSN, we get it ahead of people

and my lord does it blow

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_
5308_05.asp

so many errors, so few commands to fix

I see. That bad? Do you think it'll be released in February or pushed back even further?

the head honchos have been releasing a lot of products on time lately so I think it'll probably be put out on time

completely separate question

Rats. I have to go. Made a guess. Did some 20 moves after that. But now stuck. I don't have checkpoints.

Done! Not too difficult. Only had to make one guess.

go

For those of us without checkpoints, it is a bit tricky, as there is a quite a long string of reasoning from a certain point

done

yes - i agree with andy, but then it's usually like that with the hards (most of them) & the difficults

I think I might have to subscribe, just to get the markers

or I'm gonna buy two white board marker pens!

andy99 - What's $15 these days, a third of a tank of gas? For this much fun it's worth it!!!

It's worth it without the archives. Think of them as a bonus...

go

done