Brian solves Monday, 1-25-09… on paper!
I have had it up to here with the applet. I want to be Andy Rooney for a minute, and just complain about the applet. Can I do that? What happened to Andy Rooney? Does he still do his schtick? I haven’t watched Sixty Minutes, so I’m not aware of anything.
Doing a podcast after midnight when your co-host is ill is a bad idea. Three other bad idea comments show up in the Monday puzzle by Timothy Powell and Nancy Salomon. Nancy, we have learned, is something of a mentor and tutor to many new constructors — I wonder if Timothy is a new constructor, and this is a nice example of Nancy’s teamwork shining through. The three theme answers are LET’S NOT GO THERE, YOU MUST BE JOKING and I DIDN’T HEAR THAT — all clued with “Bad idea!”
We are just a few short weeks away from the start of Spring Training, and so the appearance of 40D. Shortstop Derek JETER just whets our collective appetite for baseball. The World Baseball Classic apparently happens before the real season begins, but I don’t know much about it. I’m sure Ryan does, as Venezeulan baseball is something of a hobby of his. I can say things like this because a) he doesn’t read what I write, and b) he’s too sick right now to pay attention to anything except Fish Wrangler.
There are many instruments out there with 30+ strings, but the one clued here is the ZITHER. Ryan has often asked, on the podcast, if I know how to play the zither. I do not. But here’s a picture of one, just because I haven’t put pictures in my posts in a while.
As I write this, Ryan is reading over my shoulder, and asked what that was a picture of. I told him it was a zither. He asked, “is it a string instrument?” I thought Ryan did these puzzles, but now I’m beginning to doubt it. Listen to our recent episode of Fill Me In (a crossbird bankjob), and let me know if you think he’s off his rocker, too.
And at the end of February, come to Brooklyn for the ACPT. It’s going to be awesome. See you there!
