Archive for May, 2005
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T-minus 1.
By Karen | Friday, May 20th, 2005 | No Comments »
Exactly one year before The Day! Celebrated with a romantic dinner at Provence and some dirty dancing at Aqua. Thanks to Kyle for our VIP-status that night!
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Still alive.
By Karen | Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 | No Comments »
It’s been pretty hectic lately at work and home…well, if you can consider Paper Mario a hectic home exercise. Ourcolony.net has wrapped up for now, and E3 is in full swing. If you haven’t checked out the lineup of next-gen consoles, go to www.e3insider.com. The trailer for the new Zelda game is sweet! Guess you can tell what’ll be on my Christmas wish list!
On the AIESEC/quasi-AIESEC front, Berk and Jina visited us mid-April, and we tried our damndest to show them the best eats and convince them to move here. I think we have Berk convinced, but it’s hard to take the Ontario out of Jina =) It was so nice to see those two again and to have a few double dates while they were in town. We even got to try out a Turkish restaurant near Granville Island. As per usual, Berk charmed the owner into offering some off-the-menu alternatives, playing a video of Turkey on the widescreen and even into parting with a pound or 2 of homemade garlic sausage. No wonder he’s in Sales.
Melissa Tiro is in town this weekend. Planning on hanging out with her for some Indian eats Saturday afternoon. Friday is T-minus 1 year before our wedding so we may do something special that night…any suggestions? Also on our calendar: Star Wars Episode III and catching up again with Parveen (Sunday).
Speaking of movies: Kurt bought Team America: World Police last night. Did you know it comes with a free T-shirt? Large, America-style, of course. We made an evening of watching the movie and most of the makings-of special features, along with some beef fajita-ing. Man, I am so glad Kurt wanted a Weber grill for his birthday. Mmmm, red meat.
What else…oh yes, we voted yesterday, and not like we did for the federal election. Yes-Liberal (referendum-MLA) times 2. Hope all you BCers managed to make it out. Haven’t heard yet whether the referendum got the 60% pass vote it needed to approve STV. Last time we saw they were saying 55% yes. If you see any updates on that, please let me know.
Haven’t been feeling very pro-blogging lately so I’ll end it off here. G’night!
Back to Ourcolony: Math Challenge?
By Karen | Saturday, May 7th, 2005 | 2 Comments »
First, thanks to Amber and Raf for solving the last two challenges for our team. Amber’s solution is in the comment on the previous blog post (”wireless” for the Magic Eye one). Raf solved the one that looked like a constellation (”Planet X”). Great job!
This is the current challenge:
My inclination is to use the numbers and the operands in the correct order to calculate the solution. However, I think we need a starting number, which the circles in the middle may allude to. I tried 5 to start (the number of circles in the center) and started with the multiplication working clockwise. That didn’t work. Perhaps it needs to be done in BEDMAS order. And for the starting number, perhaps it’s the total number of circles in the picture, including the circles created by the holes of the centre circles and the arcs connecting the operands. Try it out and post your attempts for us, please.
Brief respite from Ourcolony.
By Karen | Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005 | 1 Comment »
While we’re waiting for the next challenge, here’s a game Amber found. She says it’s like a backwards Google search. Enjoy.
New colony challenge: it’s an image.
By Karen | Sunday, May 1st, 2005 | 6 Comments »
See the previous post on how to join ourcolony.net to help solve this next riddle. It’s too wide to post inline so click on the link to see the image. Besides, the naming of the file seems to be some sort of code/clue.
As before, please post the daily clues as comments to this post.
Answer to previous challenge (audio): “CHECK THE CLOCK“.
Answer to previous challenge (I am in 6 places where you talk): “ROUND CIRCLE“.
Google these to see the full logic behind the answers.
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