*blink* Whoa....

[slipjig3]

This is why LJ exists: when it's too late to call anyone on the phone with news, I can come here and pound it into submission.

Finally got my hands on the December '05 issue of Games, about 2 days before they pull it from the shelves. I flipped through the Letters section...

I got fan mail.

Well, okay, it's one line in a longer letter, but I am indeed mentioned by name as being one of...wait, where is this thing...*flip* *flip* Ah, here it is: "...continues to be a leader in this genre." I'm... Dude, this rocks. Please, please, please forgive me for being an egotistical little dink for the moment, but, I mean, I...it's....

It's sweet.

*exhale* Okay, I'm done. Thank you for indulging me. Carry on.

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just came across this

[hweimei.livejournal.com]

A British engineer claims to have solved a puzzle that has confounded some of the world's best brains since the time of the ancient Greeks.

Ted Clarke, 79, believes that he has devised the largest acrostic square -- 10 letters by 10, spelling out the same words horizontally and vertically -- in the English language.

Puzzlers square off on solution to ancient grid (The Australian)

Frustratingly, the article doesn't show his solution.

Re: just came across this

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Sadly, I am enough of a dork that I get excited by this sort of thing.