One more book recommendation - this one gives you some food for thought!
Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles (November 2020)
Some good candidates for the Brainteasers Forum here too.
Enjoy the week!
I love that 'vandalized' check. So hilarious. "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" made a few great jokes about cashing old checks. That being said, I found my first checkbook (from the early 90's) that was issued by WaMu while moving to Dubs.A Postcard from the Edge of the Universe
April 3, 2021
Haha - well not quite, but I guess the edge of my universe, which is my garden and library these days.
What has happened since I went on vacation?
Pi Day
Earth Day
Spring Equinox
April Fool's Day
Some of our old favorites here! Maybe we will celebrate in 2022 if we have a little luck and good virus mitigation/prevention behaviors.
What is new from my side of the pond?
Good news - Gauss (garter snake) survived and I let him go on a warm day recently. The temperatures are still fluctuating, but not as wildly and there are plenty of insects out there now, so it was time for freedom.
Bad news - well the Evergreen debacle was not good news, Archegos too (though it makes for an interesting case study, alongside the GameStop saga for weirdness in 2021), and whatever else in the world.
However, try to find the humor in everything and so to close out this message - this is funny. My sister is helping me with a research project now and some quant finance is involved. She catches on fast and has started sending me amusing stuff, along with the useful material.
She suggested this for you guys in particular - a bit of American quant humor. : )
quantum bills.jpg
And with a simple substitution (inversion?), I ask you:
WHAT NOW, {WILMOTTERS}?
He he.
Enjoy your weekends and maybe I will be back again in May.
Lots of digging for my spring gardens...!
PS: Replies are welcome, but truly I am going back to silence now - it is golden! No vax (yet), but ample Sun/D3 and double masked. Vale, all!
Hehe - yes, like beauty, the signal-to-noise ratio is subjective though. We see ample evidence of that in the OT!You finally reduced your digital entropy and threw in some random bits!
I've been thinking about you yesterday, wondering if everything is OK.
Whole Lotta Love!