A Riddle wrapped in an Enigmatist

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Will Shortz, aside from having a name that makes me giggle for some reason, is a pretty bright guy.  It’s always fascinated me that someone can make a living and attain a certain modicum of fame by being the ‘editor’ of a crossword puzzle. I never really understood what that meant. I figured you either created it or solved it, I couldn’t grasp how one would ‘edit’ a puzzle. Now I get it… check out the article below.

  • Every crossword in the Times is a collaboration between the puzzle-maker and the puzzle editor. On average, about half the clues are mine. I may edit as few as five or ten percent of the clues, or as many as 95 percent for someone who does a great puzzle but not great clues. Why accept a puzzle when I’m going to edit 95 percent of the clues? Well, if someone sends me a great puzzle with an excellent theme and construction—you want fresh, interesting, familiar vocabulary throughout the grid—I feel it would be a shame to reject it on account of the clues, because I can always change them myself. … …

Read the whole article @ The Atlantic

Puppy Fever

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You know how some women get baby fever? All of a sudden their biological clock starts ringing in their ears and they begin to crave men’s seed, operating as a succubus with only one goal. Must get pregnant.

I don’t know what’s going on with my internal clock… but recently I have been dealing with wanting a puppy so damn bad it’s a little disturbing.

Ideally if anyone has a bulldog / french bulldog hybrid… I think now that I’ve been made aware of that cross-breeding, it’s on the top of my list…

Anyway… I bring this up because I watched a dog food commercial and almost cried:

Keanu, King of the Franks

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Fistly, I’d like to award myself for the most misleading headline… it is a reference to Charlemagne, who was King of the Franks in the year 814. Or should I say, Keanu Reeves, who was King of the Franks in 814. Or Keanu “Paul Mounet” Reeves, who was a French actor in the late 1800s.

Conclusion: Keanu is immortal.

I know people who have worked with Keanu and they all say he is the sweetest, nicest person they’ve ever met, and would never say a bad thing about him.

He’s read every book ever written, doesn’t care about money, will sit and share a meal with a homeless person… I think he might be Jesus.

Read more: 7 Greatest (true) Keanu Reeves stories @ Ranker