Joel, what's up?

*ahem* my secret identity, revealed?

totally

and who are you?

Well, it wasn't till you said something ;)

found skizzy.biz last month

hehe

haven't seen you in years

and you've been waiting all this time

:)

i'm ... flattered?

well, if you get out one of your old dresses, maybe...

don't have the time anymore, i'm afraid

yeah, sudoku can do that

is anyone having difficulty with the nines on here?

No, got all of 'em pretty quickly

I didn't think so

nines were the first one i had all of

me, too

I have found that threatening nines with catchphrases from the movie "Pulp Fiction" seems to keep them in line, so no, no trouble at all.

then the 1s

once i got medeival on em, they pretty much just threw themselves onto the screen for me

Now, one is the loneliest number of all

Wow! that was easy

so rather than intimidation tactics, I try to be friendly

done!

praise them

give them compliments

fact, the threats worked so well, the sixes popped up too, once they stopped spinning

done

and eventually they come out of their shell

hey, you mean I finished just as fast as whizzer?!

wahoo!

I beat you husband!

compliments blah blah . . beat em down to the least common denominator

you're too busy chatting!

yeah, but I beat you tnc. ;)

ohhh... same time... maybe I didn't beat you...w who knows? lol

Dell that was fun...

night all

if you're playing the game of iron sudoku, you're playing the game of life, and that makes you all winners

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Difficulty score 23. It seemed harder than a 23 to me.

why, drwho, I presume?

Just a fan of the show.

I am a former Minnesotan myself.

Many are cold, but few are frozen.

My best friends Jeanie, Reg, and Nancy still live there.

I'm in the Twin Cities area.

I grew up in Mpls.

I arrive here after graduating from college. Still waiting to grow up.

Lots of good things about the place -- lots of small theater, etc.

Oh yes, I as well, and I'm nearly your age.

and the lakes. many many lakes.

we sometimes went out late at night to Lake of the Isles and skated in the dark

and the wheat, the wheat

Rollerblading around the lake, or ice skating on it?

winter. ice.

Cool.

It was. It actually was quite bright with the moon and the snow

It was. It actually was quite bright with the moon and the snow

where do you like to skate best?

I usually go to the John Rose arena in Roseville. Sometimes to the Schwann Super Rink in Blaine.

hmm. funny, but I've forgotten where those towns are, and I've certainly never known those rinks. been gone a long time.

can't go back. killed a man.

Both are northern suburbs. The John Rose Oval is the largest refrigerated sheet of ice in the US and the Schwann Super Rink is the largest indoor facility in the country, or so they claim :-).

Minnesota must have the largest everything. Reflects badly on the state from a freudian stand point

I hope he deserved it.

of course; he needed killing

or no, wait... I just winged a guy.

he's almost perfectly fine now

Sort of like all the times Jack Bauer has been killed on 24?

I don't watch tv.

Well you have to be an addict to really follow 24. I just bought the DVDs for the 1st season so I wouldn't have to be a slave to the TV.

one hears it is a well done show. i'd probably like it.

It is a great action show, with lots of suspense.

And Jack Bauer always gets his man.

i will watch tv again some day. I miss David Letterman.

I've only seen the 1st season all the way through. Maybe I'll buy the DVDs for the 2nd sometime.

I miss Letterman like a tooth ache.

are you a Leno man?

Nope.

Conan?

No way.

Dave slays me.

Well someone must like him, or he wouldn't be on.

The person I miss most of all is Dick Cavett.

Did you like his Nixon interviews?

I don't remember them, but read or heard something about them recently.

I think he got something of an exclusive with Nixon. I didn't watch, but it might have been the most significant journalism that Cavett did.

Cavett was a quite good interviewer. I think Nixon opened up to him, or froze, I forget which.

and Cavett was so bright and witty.

He opened up. I believe it was a series of shows.

still is.

Oh. That makes sense, else why would I have heard of it recently. They must be out on DVD recently

Opened up in the sense of saying alot. Whether he told all he knew or even told the truth is another matter.

sounds fascinating. I do believe that toward the end of his time in the white house, he was quite close to madness.

There's something Shakespearean about the Nixon saga.

He was perhaps a bit paranoid, but that doesn't mean they weren't out to get him.

mm. so they say.

t'is late. good night drwho.

looks like the good-dr is gone. what was todays score... oh yeah - and go.

16 filled in - giving up and adding greens...

done - easier with greens...

easy

Yep, done

WHAT ARE GREENS

irv -- if you hold down the shift key while inserting numbers in a cell, you get the subscripted possibilities for the cell -- alt will get you reds if you prefer

Thanks gman

All finished

done! :)

go

go greased bunny, you're burning up the quarter mile

Hey Hursh

hey

don't let me distract you :)

Hey bunny, is this you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uABtni4D
6Y

done

good job bun!

"The url contained a malformed video id. "
More than likely not...

Is babble a huge grid today?

154

It got a line break in it, just add the 6Y and try again.

Not to bad, maybe I can slip it in tonight. I was in here while my cake bakes.

drwho, I'm on dial up, it's like riding a bike while every one else is driving cars. We live out in the boondocks, no high speed available.

Too bad. Its a video of a rabbit taking on a rattlesnake.

Sorry, I tried, it won't stream. One of the disadvantages of being a hick.

but hicks have more fun

Oh yeah, our idea of a good time is drinking beer in a can in the back yard while we throw rocks at birds and yell "YEEE HAW!".

lol

i'm off to do set, ttfn

I better get the twins ready for school and get this cake done. Maybe I'll catch ya in babble later. Bye.

hmmm... little girl can't think too well this a.m.

ok. got it. yay.

Go.

Rats. Some mistake. I quit. And I thought I was doing great.

Don't give up

Go green if necessary

I got plenty greens. But I seem to make mistakes in setting the greens.

got ity

Done! Only one guess needed.

we need to start up some screenshot cheating stuff, I'm getting my ass kicked

hyde do you know about the green sctipt? to autofill green numbers?

I'd like to know about this so-called green script

click on my cat's photo - more info in my profile

I was thinking of writing my own

awesome -- thanks!

np. someone wrote it in the first few weeks this site started last year

pasting the script didn't do anything. Java problems?

paste the script and hit return

i just made a bookmarklet out of it and it works like a charm

in the Address window? I did that.

hmm.. dunno what to suggest - not facile in programming myself...

Does it matter if its IE7 or Firefox?

Ah! That's the trick. It works great in Firefox but not at all in IE.

Dang. I wish I had this three months ago. Perfect!!!

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hmm, that autofill link doesn't work too well in IE

i just dissected that script, i don't think there's anything in it that specifically doesn't work in IE

maybe the whole thing is just too long for IE to handle?

or it could be some wacky new security thing in IE7, haven't used it myself

Not sure. But Firefox worked like a charm. Finished this one in less than five minutes.

I just used it on an archived puzzle and it worked fine in IE. THANKS!!!

It must be me then. I'll try it again tomorrow. BTW - Anyone know what's up with the Rankings? I've done 18 puzzles in a row and it still shows me 2 shy of the top on the Who's Hot list.

I've got IE 7, the script thing worked just fine for me. I have one puzzle left in the archives, you guy's could have said something a little sooner about it. ;)

Zug, it worked for me immediately after starting the puzzle. As for the hot list, I've noticed the same thing. It must have something to do with the fact that rankings are not calculated at exactly midnight.

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I used it on an "easy" and I won't do that again. It's not that I'm a purist or anything; it's because I wound up having to delete way more greens than I would normally need to. Also, I felt like I was just a non-thinking robot playing the game. It might be nice on some of the "hard" or "expert" puzzles, tho.

Hey Krys10! Thanks for the program!! But I can't seem to put it in the Favorites. How did you do it patgas?

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