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I recently heard about a Car Talk puzzler.  I don’t listen to Car Talk as much as I used to.  Anyway, you can read about the puzzler and the fellow who solved it here.  This is an excerpt.

During Christmas week on the popular National Public Radio show Car Talk, the weekly puzzler required listeners to find the longest English word that remains a valid English word as you remove its letters one at a time, but without rearranging any of the letters. For example: sprite, spit, pit, it, I. There are many such words, but, as Barr discovered, only one with 11 letters.

So, only one word with eleven letters: complecting.  Maybe.  I’m not convinced, but finding out is easy.
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Sure, we all want to be successful, but we can’t all be, since success must be measured against the failures of your peers. Preferably spectacular failures, with a well-timed “I told them so.” But you aren’t like other people: you read my blog, so you’re gonna get some inside information to make you $ucce$$ful! Continue reading »

Well… I’ve been using jsMath on my Wiki, and now I’m keen to use it on my blog.  There does not seem to be a WordPress plugin explicitly for jsMath (if anyone knows of one, please let me know), but you don’t need one. Using jsMath from WordPress is actually easy via a different plugin. Continue reading »

There’s a cause group on Facebook called “Put Christ Back Into Schools.” I’ll wait while you decide whether to join up. Done? Okay, let’s move on. Continue reading »

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