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Is the puzzle late again this week?

Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:53 pm Is the puzzle late again this week?

Yes Ma'am. The crack team from WSJ is working the problem.

COME ON, WHERE'S MY PUZZLE! I'VE GOT THING... oh wait.. No, I don't. I've got nothing to do and nowhere to go. Never mind...

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:57 pm

Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:53 pm Is the puzzle late again this week?

Yes Ma'am. The crack team from WSJ is working the problem.

Is that the problem? They're on crack!

DBMiller wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:03 pm

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:57 pm

Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:53 pm Is the puzzle late again this week?

Yes Ma'am. The crack team from WSJ is working the problem.

Is that the problem? They're on crack!

They wish!!! In these times you find every small issue in your electronic communications systems and functions that are done routinely that you don't even know have to be done.

I have spent the better part of the last week trying to get my computer camera to work so I can participate in a class I am taking. No it is not my virus checker. No it is not some random setting in my computer. The computer does not even recognize that the camera is even there - and it is built in by HP.

Al Sisti wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:02 pm COME ON, WHERE'S MY PUZZLE! I'VE GOT THING... oh wait.. No, I don't. I've got nothing to do and nowhere to go. Never mind...

Chug a dozen Guinness's so that you have slowed down to the speed of the rest of us.

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:10 pm

Al Sisti wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:02 pm COME ON, WHERE'S MY PUZZLE! I'VE GOT THING... oh wait.. No, I don't. I've got nothing to do and nowhere to go. Never mind...

Chug a dozen Guinness's so that you have slowed down to the speed of the rest of us.

Well, okay! (the things I'm willing to do to have people accept me).

I taught my first online class today! Yay! It wasn’t that bad! Not like in person, but workable.

Someone posted a list of 450 classes you could take on line for free from Ivy League schools -- great for retirees, it said -- I excitedly looked through the computer course names... racing at first... then slowed down a little... memories started crashing back... uh, NO thank you! I...um, I don't want to clog the bandwidth and keep someone else from learning (so when exactly did they stop teaching Fortran IV? I've got my Commodore 64 all fired up)

Meg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:13 pm I taught my first online class today! Yay! It wasn’t that bad! Not like in person, but workable.

What did you teach? and what system did you use?

I am on day 3 of the flu. Seriously. Self-quarantined for two weeks. No need to be tested, unless my breathing goes south. On the low side of 60 by a few days. Shwew!

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:17 pm

Meg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:13 pm I taught my first online class today! Yay! It wasn’t that bad! Not like in person, but workable.

What did you teach? and what system did you use?

I taught ESL to 11 students using ZOOM. I am so tech-savvy at 64 that I scare myself!

Meg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:22 pm

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:17 pm

Meg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:13 pm I taught my first online class today! Yay! It wasn’t that bad! Not like in person, but workable.

What did you teach? and what system did you use?

I taught ESL to 11 students using ZOOM. I am so tech-savvy at 64 that I scare myself!

I am in a Learning In Retirement Association at UMass Lowell and we are using Zoom for our meetings on various subjects.

Hmmm... Puzzle is up. Nothing given in the contest info pop-up to tell us what we're looking for regarding the meta

Joe Ross wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:17 pm I am on day 3 of the flu. Seriously. Self-quarantined for two weeks. No need to be tested, unless my breathing goes south. On the low side of 60 by a few days. Shwew!

Speedy recovery!

DBMiller wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:25 pm Hmmm... Puzzle is up. Nothing given in the contest info pop-up to tell us what we're looking for regarding the meta

"the answer to this week's contest crossword is a ten-letter word".

Meg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:22 pm

Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:17 pm

Meg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:13 pm I taught my first online class today! Yay! It wasn’t that bad! Not like in person, but workable.

What did you teach? and what system did you use?

I taught ESL to 11 students using ZOOM. I am so tech-savvy at 64 that I scare myself!

Have you considered a course called EFL for engineers

Janet P wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:41 am Look at us! We made the paper!!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fried-brai ... ge=1&pos=1

Thanks to Matt Gaffney for writing up such a lovely article and even mentioning this very forum

P.S. Also thanks to whichever editor headlined the print article "Crazy for Crosswords: Meet the Journal's Weekly Contestants" which is more pleasant than the "Fried Brain Fridays" given it in the online edition.

P.P.S. While the print article has Matt discussing one puzzle (ARGO, 2018) there are THREE examples with analyses in this online piece.

Unfortunately, I have let my subscription lapse, I can only read the first paragraph.

This would be one of the few times I miss the subscription since ending up here.

Edit: Found it. Thanks to those that posted for us cheapskates!