The above new URL now forwards to this journal 10 years ago.
See also KenKen.
(This post was suggested by the phrase "10 years later"
from the image in the previous post.)
Sunday, March 23, 2025
KenKen.casa
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Meeting Cute: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie (continued)
See also the previous post.
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Friday, January 1, 2021
Mission Possible: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie
Wikipedia on the late Hugh Hefner —
“Through his father’s line, Hefner was a descendant of
Plymouth governor William Bradford. He described
his family as ‘conservative, Midwestern, [and] Methodist’.
His mother had wanted him to become a missionary.”
A quote from Story Space —
“Your mission, should you choose to accept it . . . .” —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Annie_Fanny .
Hefner’s parents might prefer the region of Story Space
proper to Dreamboat Annie.
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Thursday, March 26, 2026
The Song* from “X” —
♫ “Climb a mountain and turn around . . . .”
* A related song . . .
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♫ “Climb a mountain and turn around . . . .”
♫ “Climb a mountain and turn around . . . .”
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Square Game
(For Anti-Barbie on St. Lucy’s Day)
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(For Anti-Barbie on St. Lucy’s Day)
(For Anti-Barbie on St. Lucy’s Day)
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Hexagram 52: Ken
Today's description of Dartmouth College as a "gin-soaked gutter"
by Margaret Soltan (i.e., University Diaries) suggests a review:
Monday, November 14, 2022
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See also "KenKen" and today's previous post.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
“Man’s Search for Meaning” — and Woman’s
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Saturday, November 27, 2021
“Where you going? / Barcelona.” — Sondheim, “Company”*
* In honor of Sondheim, recent posts are now
tagged with a phrase from a different show —
Send in the Clowns.
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
Looking for a Point of View*
Related post from New Year’s Day —
“Mission Possible: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie.”
* See “Lars and the Code Girl.”
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Monday, January 4, 2021
The Purloined Joke
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Space Force
New Yorker video today, at 14:00-14:25 —
"What's good about KenKen, and Sudoku, and crosswords,
all of those puzzles like that, is that they have grids to be filled in,
empty squares. I think there is something about human nature
that we want to fill up spaces. And if you're a puzzle person,
or almost anybody, and you see an empty grid, you want to
put something in those spaces. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
that you don't get often in life and that really feels good."
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
"I can't get no… satisfaction…." — The Rolling Stones
The New Yorker recently restarted the Weiner story,
which includes —
"… the fall of 2017, when he began a twenty-one-month
prison sentence for sexting with a minor."
"You want to put something in those spaces."
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
Yes, you do.
Weiner is now with a Brooklyn countertops company called IceStone.
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The Whiteboard Jungle
Detail:
A story in numbers:
It is what it is.
See also the phrase “Beautiful Mathematics” in this journal.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
High School Squares*
The following is from the weblog of a high school mathematics teacher—
This is related to the structure of the figure on the cover of the 1976 monograph Diamond Theory—
Each small square pattern on the cover is a Latin square,
with elements that are geometric figures rather than letters or numerals.
All order-four Latin squares are represented.
For a deeper look at the structure of such squares, let the high-school
chart above be labeled with the letters A through X, and apply the
four-color decomposition theorem. The result is 24 structural diagrams—
Some of the squares are structurally congruent under the group of 8 symmetries of the square.
This can be seen in the following regrouping—
(Image corrected on Jan. 25, 2011– "seven" replaced "eight.")
* Retitled "The Order-4 (i.e., 4×4) Latin Squares" in the copy at finitegeometry.org/sc.
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