easy

Too darn tired, keep fumbling around...

Done...

Easy one!

Chpster I know you right?

go

Done

done

whb, did you start at the flip? at my go? or dont really keep track of start?

anyways - this ones easy - just one hidden pair to get thru it all (no greens - assume unless i confess otherwise).

Hey h, here's a hint. Spike dies.

Done and i've only just started playing

go

done

Simple for a medium. On to the archives....

having a hard time on this without greens

yeah! done!

done

Difficulty score 28. I had trouble seeing the obvious again.

Go.

Done. Medium is a good designation.

Piece of pie . .

done! :)

help!

go.

iv messed up.....again! :(

go

done

I hate mediums...

well, that was pretty simple.

agreed

here we are again, in Sudoku class with Papa Lansing

yep, hi everyone

nick was just commenting on Ana's in-class game habits

he's just jealous

probably

pfft obviously

he wishes he were a ninja too

He keeps looking at your screen --- HI, NICK!!!!

lol, who is this? Jeremy?

Yeah, I'm on the game wagon.

sweet. also, hooray for making "your mom" jokes on the attendance chart.

I trespassed on Siobhan's space so she hit me wth that zinger of a your mom joke

Your mom is an attendance chart

oh wait..

your mom is outrageous

Your mom is distressed in ordinary ways...

i distressed your mom last night

i distressed your mom last night

twice

Yikes!

you better watch you leigh, your behavior might be considered torious.

Or tortoise hehehe

nah, ana is a ninja

and everyone knows ninjas are immune to mental distress

That is soooooooo true

Which is one of their advantages over pirates.

Although pirates have the upper hand in that they knit

and say arrrrrrrr

indeed, one of many.

but ninja's are not immune to tortoises though... that is why Ana is so powerful... she is a ninja pirate tortoise.

but ninjas can knit as well, as you have proven.

aha you have me pegged, strider

yar

stupid cold

making me all sneezy

Go to the doc and get some dopey. Or are you too bashful?

lol

puntacular

that was terrible

there is a special place in hell for punners

ouch

that's why i always tell you you're going to hell, andy

puns are awesome

heh, whoops, that was a little loud

I think you are inflicting mental distress on the prof, leigh

I love bad puns

oh no

he's telling eyeball stories again

gross

See, I told ya

dead granpa... for no reason... he had no reason to kill the grandpa!

murderer

uhhhh..... did I miss something

he was telling the story about the granpa having eye surgery... then he said that the granpa died a week later but it didn't have anything to do with this example... If it didn't have anything to do with the example why did he have to specify that the granpa was dead

ok, that's what I thought you meant

He didn't have to tell the llama story either, but wasn;t it worth it?

I have a yama

the back half of a yama?

I think it's a tenancy in common, where the parties have a fractional share, but there's no deliniation of the property. So they both own all the yama.

unless they were really drunk and flew to massachussetts, then it might be a tenancy in the entirety...

mmmm, stew

Aha, but who gets the wool?

That's all I care about

your mom gets the wool

my mom would probably knit something nifty with it

i always put an extra "s" in trespass

i should stop that before i become a lawyer

Oh my, that almost made me giggle out loud, Andy. I should have seen it coming

BURNED

I know!

There's only enough room on stage for ONE star.

Oh sweet! Is he skipping the front row?!

looks like it

Yes!!!!! Off the hook!

always with the duck

poor jeremy

ducks = universal enemy of mankind

I thought that was foxes.

as long as it's not tortoises

quick... minimize minimize... incoming!!!

Crap I think he saw.

lol

he didn't see mine, i don't think

My reflexes aren't fast enough

heh, you're a ninja, your reflexes are fine. you are just above caring, probably.

Oh, yeah. That's it.

We're in class.

Hehe

heh, we're only kids when compared with our professor <g>

Well, we're not exactly kids... probably close enough though - law students.

well... kids would be a bit of a stretch... :)

mmmm, chicken

it was snppngtrtle, she's a ninja

quit it, you're making me hungry

we're in tort's class... a bunch of dirty stinking 1st year law students

whoa, getting nasty in here

just imagine in in Lansing's voice and it becomes funny

Lansing = 80 year old torts prof

:)

he rattled off about 30 racial slurs in a row last tuesday

as a demonstration of the tort intentional infliction of mental distress

I just finished the sudoku but I think I'll stay and chat

Wait I thought name-calling didn't count.

oh yeah, i guess that was the point he was making. i got distracted by all the racial slurs.

cadiz... no funny animal name to make fun of Laura... whatcha got now prof. Lansing

i half expected him to say something about it always being pronounced as a hard i in spanish

he's making fun of the prof

yesterday he called on a girl whose last name is "Padilla" and he pronounced it with an "L" sound instead of a "Y"

then the went on a rant about how he drank too much at an auction once and bought a "yama" (llama)

it was in response to her correcting him... it was hi-larious

Isn't that funny, how EVERY prof has said "Is it Padil-la?" Then they all automatically say "Cad-ease," but it's "Cad-iz?"

someone's last name

we're from different places, but we all go to school in Portland, OR

weather here is lovely

well, overcast today. but generally lovely.

i think I'm going to grill some burgers after class

mmmm, chicken

and yes, above zero. it's about 50 farenheit (don't know where you're from)

Just had some

mmmm burgers

I think I'm going to your house after class :) j/k

Strider, you should come over and watch heroes after class

lol

oh Portland. lucky you guys!

Soooo Heros and burgers it is?

I have 2 pounds of burger meat, i can share

Hi Ata!

Yeah, it finally warmed up around here today, up to 45 F or so.

that sound lurvely

weather.com says it's exactly 50 here right now

warm enough for grilling, but just barely

awesoem

awesome*

But it felt so cold outside!

I have some vegi-burgers at my house.

Left hand got excited

lol, where are you from? It's balmy and delightful out.

sweet, bring them with your knitting.

Cold? HA! I laugh in the face of cold!

Can I use your washinng maching if I bring soap, I need to do a load of laundry.

The 'big' SC, in Anderson county

lol, sure

the landlords pay the water bill anyway

I was going to work on my brief, but this sounds like much more fun.

Oregon: founded by hippies

lol

Well, isn't that obvious?

eh, could have been fur trappers or miners or something

fisherpeople

but yeah, hippies makes the most sense.

ugh, i blew my nose too hard and now I can't hear.

stupid cold.

Hate it when that happens

I guess you'll just have to play sudoku instead of listen to the lecture... oh wait...

hehe

someone told him

Yeah i know, I heard them

mark told me who it was but i forgot

It was Emily.

ah

I mean Rachel.

Stupid!

Well, I hope he starts with the other end because I read this a looooong time ago and don't remember it.

damn

Damn!

wikipedia says that movie is about a boat being docked next to an island of beautiful nurses, and soon enough the crew is seeking medical attention...

LOL

he's telling us the plots of pornos...

<3 Lansing

A porno starring Jack Lemmon?!? Eww.

he got half the actors wrong. it's jack nicholoson, not jack lemmon, and imdb has a different plot, so I think the wikipedia entry may have been wrong.

at least he didn't make fun of your name

What rhymes with "Roezsler?"

and you got a fairly easy question

Sizzler?

haze-ler

daze-ler

damn, katie got called out

oooooooooh

Yay that wasn't so bad

oh, lansing.

Yow-za

weee, finally done with sudoku

just barely in time for end of class

i thought he just said. "so when the commie says..."

Yay Leigh

too many russian classes in undergrad, i guess

also the whole not being able to hear thing. stupid cold.

Have you got commies on the brain, leigh

...And I'm done!

this one's harder to start than yesterday's 'expert'

listen...to...the...sounds...of...silence (sing song voice)

wow. sudoku sure has gotten silent over the last few months...or maybe i just got on at the wrong time of day

Hello there, I'm here

go

omg!!! a living creature!!!

whoot!

present

it's so nice to know someone else is out there (or someones)\

:)

and according to the "who's online" tab, there are fifty online

so...how are we all doing?

maybe they're all mute

or sleeping

yeah...

digging into the archives after like 6 months of no sudoku

got your work cut out for you

oh yeah

oh yeah

oops

oops
slow internet

grr

i'll print some out and do them when i'm supposed to be paying attention in pre-cal class

sudoku trumps pre-calc?

are you kidding me? OF COURSE IT DOES!!!

or are you a calculus teacher, because in that case pre-cal is the best

:)

no - but i learned (in calc 3 at least) that not paying attention does not translate well to the grade card

don't i know that

actually, i'm one of the few kids in the class that DOES pay attention

i'll probably end up doing sudoku in spanish class

yeah. who needs that junk? :)

i got on this amazing sudoku craze last year in school and all i could think about was that day's puzzle...i couldn't concentrate at all

and i do like spanish, i mean i want to learn, but the teacher isn't that great so i havent learned much in two years of it

suggest to the teacher that they spend classtime once a week on doing sudoku in spanish -- maybe snooker them into something interesting

yeah right...i would enjoy it and my friend would, but everyone else would DEFINITELY not like it

you 2 are boring me to death...........

oh yeah? well then what do YOU want to talk about?

grouchy grouchy

anything but calc and spanish

:)

seen any good movies lately?

No, but I'm working thru last year's 24...WOW

???

Hmmm, latest I saw was "Night at the Museum" and it was much better than I thought it would be

I do more reading than watching movies, though.

NATM was great.

last i saw was harry potter 4 and before that epic movie

oh, yes. harry potter and the closet of monkeys?

Was epic movie any good. I'm a tad skeptical when it comes to parodies.

no!!!

it was the worst movie ever

ok, I didn't think so

some parts were funny, but most was just gorey and very sexually explicit

have you seen final destination?

yeah

yeah

whoops

not a good movie

must not have if something else was the worst ever :)

no one here watch it!!

ok off the soap box

oh no brittle fish sorry about that

is it good?

Ihad not heard of NATM so I looked it up on Netflix. Ben Stiller; 4 out of 5 stars. Looks pretty good.

It is awesome, has Robin Williams as well.

yeah my sister saw it and said it was funny

Yeah, I see that. Any more recommendations?

i love robin willia,s

it's clean, funny, smart, action-packed, warm, and has cowboys vs. the romans. what else could you want? (well, the side-plot with the old guys was a little lame, but that's just a miner nit)

same here

umm...any of you seen pirates 2

i like it better than the first one, but i'm a pirate freak...

Of course

I love it!

better than the first one?

Hmmm, very hard decision, I would say yes, but not by much.

go

Pirates of the Caribbean 2?

you know what i like about it? elizabeth and will aren't so drippy and elizabeth is actually a real character instead of your cliche dependent woman

yeah

You have a very good point

1 was much funnier than 2

eh. I thought POTC 1 was better. Had more of an edge. Depp was more believable

more of an edge. POTC 2 was too ... shiny and polished

no!!! 2 was more piratey...the only real "pirate" in 1 was jack

You can't argue with more pirates in a pirate movie.

then again, i knew what was going to happen in 2 and now in 3 so 1 is definitely more unpredictable

there is that.

oh well, disney needed a break and they got one!!

if you like action-mob movies, i hear the departed is good

if you guys read books, i just got through one called the alchemist that i think everyone should read

Haven't heard of it, who is the author?

paulo coehlo

he's brasilian

The Departed - 4.5 out of 5 stars. Irish mafia in Boston.

hmmm...i'm more into fantasy

there ya go, spread

what's more fantastic than irish mafia in boston?

Awesome, I will write that one down and check it out on my next trip to BAM, which will probably be tomorrow.

bam???

books-a-million, a chain of bookstores

bamm.com

Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson

cool beans.

it's a really easy book, you could probably get through it in a day or two

i dont know why it's cool beans...i know i think hot beans are way better!!!

hehe, of course, who eats cool (cold) beans?

I KNOW!!!

^_^

Do you read any Stephen King?

um... no

used to

i like reading agatha christi when it comes to mystery

salems lot, the stand, cujo,

he wrote the green mile, didn't he?

oh yes

i watched the movie

yeah, I love his older works, not as much a fan of his newer stuff

The Alchemist - The novel tells the tale of Santiago, a boy who has a dream and the courage to follow it. After listening to "the signs" the boy ventures in his personal, Ulysses-like journey of exploration and self-discovery, symbolically searching for a hidden treasure located near the pyramids in Egypt.

have you ever seen children of the corn?

no doubt. the old stuff rocks.

that was freaky

i read a lot of isabel allende.

ever heard of her?

nope

sounds familiar, but can't place it

sounds familiar, but can't place it

she writes a lot about political things in latin america

like the whole allende/pinochet thing in chile

wow, very interesting

it is

hey, i'll brb, i'm going to piece together a quick icon for my profile on this site. I will be back in ten min or so.

are you still there brittle fish?

ah, getting some numbers here...

yup, i think so

ok...so we can continue some sort of conversation about...pre cal (hehe)

no.............................

hehe. i think spread's still around

hehe. i think spread's still around

oh, nevermind

dang interweb

we can talk about...running!!!

do you guys like to run?

Go ahead, I'll stick my fingers in my ears?

used to

gosh, nothing can please you, can it spread?

spread, you'll have to stick your fingers in your eyes, so i wouldn't advise it

5K per day, rain or shine

really spread?

5K per day at -30 wind chill?

you're an inspiration!

Been doing it for 30+ years

impressive

wow!

i can say i've been running for...oh...all about 5 years?

Advil, Advil, Advil.......

hehe

funny, i can say i haven't been running for about 5 years.

no pain killers here unless i'm about to die

i run for x country

miller, you're 17? just wait.

I used to be that way. Then I hit 50, not pretty...

how do you know how old i am?

spooky huh?

hehe

i have detailed files

what?

your profile

gotcha

that was my next question

:)

i couldn't remember what i'd put on there...it was so long ago

How long have you been a member here?

i was expecting "no, i'm 18" or something.

hold that thought

happy early birthday

ok...um march 21 06

and my birthday isn't for a LONG time

does it say birthdays on here?

nah

no, but it says you're 17 and you said earlier that you'd been playing here for over 6 months, so i took a guess ...

yeah i just figured that out

good guess...i guess???

well, don't get creeped out. just paying attention here.

no i think that stays updated brittle fish because they ask for your birthdate, not your age

so i actually am 17

i wouldn't know, since i haven't registered

well, what are you waiting for?

:)

sorry i'm behind, got caught up on another page. I'm new here anyway. here for four days now

it's okay, you're only 19.

well, i didn't actaully pay the 14 dollars or whatever myself, becuase my mom payed it for me

I used my paypal

and what is that?

it's a more secure way to buy things online and get paid for selling things online

paypal.com

??? country bumpkin here!!!

you can transfer money from a banking account or a credit card and use it to buy anything from a seller who accepts paypal payments

done

or I could have just given you that link. :P

brittlefish.com - I see you're into online games.

a bit

oh ok

completely lost...

ha

My son's in his room blasting away at the bad guys.

nailed that puppy

rank me, baby

got a spiffy new script for IronSudoku, no less

no green, red, or checkpoints

same here

Limer, you do like the dogs..........

well arent you a wise guy

dogs???

yeah, i'm lost too

good. i'm not the only one

Limer is always "nailing that puppy"

oh. ok

ah, ok...

ahhh

hehe. we're like a kindergarten class brittle and sereg

lol

no kidding.

i wish i was in kindergarten again. so much easier back then.

oh yeah

no precal

hehe, I've had that fantasy before

actually i'd rather be prekindergarten

precal was nothing. cal was nothing. Differential cal, now that one kicked my butt.......

haven't got there yet

diffy q isn't that bad, and i might be wierd but discrete was kinda interesting too

ew. calculus got real hard when i stopped paying attention

so not all of us are amazing geniouses!!!

im taking combinatorics right now, not sure how that one will turn out

???

??? I agree

the science of combining ... stuff.

same here

on the ??? comment of course

hehe

its kinda like theoretical math crossed with probability and a little bit of graph theory from time to time

is that a new name for chemistry?

if you find any lice with that comb, share them with me ok moe

lmao

but yeah its basically the theories behind counting really complicated sets

lmao???

laugh my ass off

ok...

i dont know these abbreviation things...i think they should have a dictionary for them...the only one i know is lol

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

www.netlingo.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang

my friend always tells me if you don't understand something...just smile and nod, smile and nod

thats actually not a bad method. You would be utterly shocked to learn what you can get away with if you just act natural

i find myself doing it a lot

convince other people that you know what you are talking about until they start questioning what they think

the only problem is that you can't BS the BS'er

yeah...that's fun, isn't it?

hehe

have you ever played the card game BS?

I have, but it's been awhile

very fun game

maybe. moons ago.

So, what type of music does everyone listen to?

anything but rap and country

except johnny cash...i like him

You "kids" have fun. I've just finished my 10th puzzle for the day and It's time for "old folks" to go read a book and hopefully fall asleep.

goodnight!!!

Ok, farewell spread eagle

night

any jazz?

Now you can talk about calc and spanish...........

yeah...dixie land mostly

im about to retire from sudoku myself, ive got a stats exam in the morning i need to start studying for

i sometimes play in the school jazz band

ever heard of the bassist Marcus Miller?

yikes good luck

awesome, what instrument

sounds very familiar

trumpet

He's been around a while. I play bass and I love his music

cool

Cool, I played trumpet back in elementary until I got braces

wait...string bass or electric

Then I sang all through high school

i sing, but not in front of people!!!

electric, although i would love to learn either string bass or cello

my friend plays string bass

if i only had the time...

same here. i would love to learn fiddle

but you still have time for sudoke

sudoku sorry

hehe, yeah, I guess it's more of a motivation thing, and I live in the middle of nowhere, not sure if I would be able to find an instructor

same here!!!

i think no one within a 75 mile radius knows a thing about fiddle around here

then again. there are only about 75 people in that area

ok, so that's an exageration

yeah, about the same here though

I'm sure someone around here knows, just not any publicly advertised instructors

same

any other music you like?

let's see...where to start. I listen to alot of rock. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are my favorite band

my friend is in germany right now and he went to one of their concerts a couple months ago!

awesome, I've been wanting to go for quite a while

yeah, i'd just like to go to ANY concert...

hehe, I know how that goes, I've never been to a concert, believe it or not

me either

except for lots of local band shows

which are awesome

yeah. definetely been to those!

yikes! just remembered i'm taking the act saturday@

!

Ah!

AHH!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

:P

actually i dont think it will be that bad. i'm not the stress out kind of person :)

don't stress. act is no biggie.

i hope

Yeah, I do well with tests. Took the SAT once, before they switched to the new one. I had a fever, and only got a 1,200

my sister got into college with an amazing act score

i just hope i can get an average

pretty good. don't really know the scoring for the sat

i did well on the psat though

awesome, I don't think you'll have a problem

that's good to know

i dont know if i'll even take the sat

if you do well on the act, and the college you wish to go to accepts act scores, you won't have to

well my sister took both but i don't think she turned in her sat score. she got into cornell!!!

go

wow

???

what does go mean?

so cornell and a 32 on the act is what i have to live up to on saturday

beginning the board

I time myself... go when I start and done when I'm done... I usually do this when no one is on :)

oh

ah, no pressure

yeah i know...we can't all be little einsteins can we?

no we can't

intelligence is but one of millions of talents you could possibly possess

right

then, i do sudoku and my sister doesn't...that's got to count for something!

it counts for everything

oh yes

well, okay, not really

:)

allow me that little illusion, won't you?

i will

ugh, I screwed up somewhere, and i have no idea exactly where

thank you

sorry

I may just have to start over

oh, not your fault

I'm just out of it tonight as it is, getting careless apparently

had to do that on an EASY from the archives a second ago (totally embarrassing)

nothing to be embarrassed about

:)

Ok, I'm doing an old easy one to clear my mind

the very first puzzle

good idea

when was that exactly?

the first puzzle i mean

just a sec...

the archives go back to march 11, 2006

i've been here sporadically since day 10 then

wow, that's cool

I've been here as often as possible for four days

hehe

it's because last year i got into sudoku, and my mom was on babble so when dr.god sent out the email to open ironsudoku. my mom was one of the first to know

so she told me naturally

ah, I see, so it didn't take much convincing at all to get her to pay for it for you

hehe

four days is a start for you though

and it seems like you're really digging into the archives

done

wow andy impressive

figured there was no better place to start

yes, very nice

I used the greens...

me too

I play a *lot*

i used to

I am not addicted. No. I can stop any time I want to . really.

hehe

can't we all?

denial

have fun all... off to check out babble for the evening :)

bye

have fun and good luck

farewell

i'm on babble too, but i

like sudoku better

I haven't checked it out yet

boggle online

basically

ok

i like boggle, but i like it better when you can make up your own words :)

original words are always fun!

don't i know it

sooo....

back to music, ever heard of joni mitchell?

don't think so

great folk singer

part of the whole woodstock gang

ok, i know some of her songs, but not the name

yeah, if i could sing, i'd want to sound like her

which songs do you know?

i've heard clouds and the circle game but it seems like it's been ages

oh!!! the clouds song is my most favorite song ever!!!

awesome

hmm...i'm stuck now

on the puzzle?

yes

i gave up on it and moved to another one

did you think maybe i'd got my head stuck in a bucket or something?

ok, i'm going back to today's puzzle

hehe, you could have one of those finger trap things

of course, that would have made it hard to type

i do have one of those things

i have very talentied pinkies

talented

And just what is their special talent?

typing???

nose picking

lol

my right pinky is very good at reaching over to the backspace key

lol

yeah

and enter

but more often backspace

i used to type fast in high school, but i think i slowed down a little

same here

plus i'm using laptop, so i have a flat keyboard

i'm getting better, and then worse, and then better, i'm in a better mode right now

i hate laptop keyboards

i'm actually used to it now, it's all i have at home

well, i'm sitting in our freezing cold office on a dinosaur computer with dial up internet from the stone age

hey, at least it works for sudoku. :)

:)

yes but nothing else. i can't even chat on my gmail account

ah, that sucks, I have dsl, but its slow dsl, still not bad at all though

i would love to have dsl

i used dial up for a couple of years before we finally got it, it's crazy how fast it seems

:)

i usually get on the internet at school, because there it's really fast

ugh, i don't know if i'm going to be able to finish tonight or not

i'm supposed to be writing a card to someone right now...but it's not going so well.

i got the center lines, vertical and horizontal, but i having trouble beyond that

why isn't it going well?

well...let's just say sudoku is a little more entertaining

oh, ok

i can understand that

it's to someone i dont even know, but it's for a good cause

we're doing a fundrive for luchemia patients right now and for nhs i have to write a letter to a patient

that is really cool

yeah, i think so too

all i know about the kid is that he likes nascar, something i know nothing about

I watch it from time to time, but I'm no die hard fan or anything

we played the music in band once, it was really coo!

well I'm sorry, but I've grown quite tired, I'm off to bed

do you mind if I add you to my friend list?

good night.

sure.

i'll do the same to you!

ok, feel free to add me if you like

youre my first friend

ok, good luck and good night

yay! same for you

:) yes but i've been here longer

i guess i never even noticed you could add friends

eh, just by a little. :P

:)

goodnight

noght

night

:)