Mon 23 Apr 2001
“What five-letter word can you add a letter to get a six-letter word, another letter to get a seven-letter word and another letter to get an eight-letter word? What’s unusual about the four words?”
I’ve got it up to seven. But not eight. Any ideas?
Mon 23 Apr 2001
I heard on the radio this morning that one of my favorite shows was leaving it’s network and moving to a rival one. Yes, you heard that right. Buffy is moving from the WB over to UPN. Why you ask?
Media Talk: Defection of ‘Buffy’ Is Based on Economics
*sigh* This leaves me with no choice but to have to watch that crappy excuse for a testosterone-saturated network.
(There are a whole host of other web articles about the move. This one is the best one in my opinion.)
Thu 19 Apr 2001
Sorry I didn’t much advance notice to the server going down, but I didn’t actually get the message until after the machine went down. But now it’s relocated and everything seems to be running smoothly.
As a result of the outage, I didn’t have a chance to work on the site. Will do so this weekend possibly.
Wed 11 Apr 2001
Three players enter a room and a red or blue hat is placed on each person’s head. The color of each hat is determined by a coin toss, with the outcome of one coin toss having no effect on the others. Each person can see the other players’ hats but not his own.
No communication of any sort is allowed, except for an initial strategy session before the game begins. Once they have had a chance to look at the other hats, the players must simultaneously guess the color of their own hats or pass. The group shares a hypothetical $3 million prize if at least one player guesses correctly and no players guess incorrectly.
Feel free to email me your solutions.
I’ll post the answer and an ensuing analysis tomorrow.
Wed 11 Apr 2001
Saw this article on CNN.com today. I’m just quietly biding my time.
CNN.com - Entertainment - Engineer wins $2.18 million on ‘Millionaire’ - April 10, 2001
A Michigan engineer won $2.18 million on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” Tuesday, which ABC claims is the biggest quiz show prize in network television history.
Kevin Olmstead of Ann Arbor, Michigan, won the jackpot for correctly identifying Igor Sikorsky as inventor of the first mass-produced helicopter. He was already out of lifelines.
