And now, let’s review last week’s Friday Challenge.
Here’s the argument:
Columnist: While it is undeniably true that NBC’s new Parks and Recreation is full of hilarious hijinks and madcap fun, it is destined to remain second to The Office in overall quality of writing, character development, and viewership. After all, Parks relies too heavily on zanily [...]
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Hilarious Hijinks and Madcap Fun
This week’s Friday Challenge. Enjoy!
Columnist: While it is undeniably true that NBC’s new Parks and Recreation is full of hilarious hijinks and madcap fun, it is destined to remain second to The Office in overall quality of writing, character development, and viewership. After all, Parks relies too heavily on zanily improbable one-liners. Thus, it will [...]
Child, Blocks, Cabinet, Questions.
For the answer to Friday’s Challenge, let’s take a look at the game reprinted here, followed by detailed explanations for all of the moves shown below.
You’ll see that I’ve symbolized each rule individually, then combined them. It’s in this combination that I get the most mileage out of my rules – as we’ll see, many [...]
The Child and Her Blocks
For this week’s Friday Challenge, I give you a game:
A child is organizing her playroom, and will put a series of blocks, each bearing one of the following eight letters – F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M – into a cabinet one at a time in accordance with the following conditions:
J is put [...]
I Really Won’t Miss Him, Though
After this week, I’m declaring Glenn Beck officially off-limits for this space. True, this will mean denying myself a rich vein of his illogic, almost-thoughts, foolishness, fear-mongering, half-comprehended ideas and mangled English sentences to write about, but I just can’t take it anymore. I mean, really, it’s just too easy with this clown (apparently, if [...]
(Don’t!) Free Roman!
It’s not like we really ever looked to Hollywood for reason or insight, but, like, wow. Today, 138 people in the film industry signed a petition “demanding” the release of Roman Polanski, the film director who was arrested yesterday in Switzerland because in 1977 he was charged with drugging and raping a 13 year old [...]
Whiskey, Vodka, Rum, Tequila.
Now, the answer to last week’s Friday Challenge.
First, let’s recap: We’ve got 12 identical-looking steel balls (yes we do), exactly one of which is either slightly heavier or else slightly lighter than the other 11 identical balls. We’ve got only a balance scale and our wits, and we need to find out which ball is [...]
September 09 LSAT, Reviewed
Well. That was… fun.
What a day Test Day is, huh? If you’re anything like us, you found Saturday exhilarating and exhausting and exciting and lots of other stuff beginning with ex. Now, we understand that you didn’t ask, but since we took the test this weekend (some of us looking for that elusive third perfect [...]
24 Hours till Go-Time
Wow! It’s go-time already. After months of study, the work you’ve put in is about to be rewarded; tomorrow, you will achieve the success you’ve earned, and our hats are off to you.
For today’s Friday Challenge, I’ll offer something to take your mind off the LSAT for a few minutes, before you get down to [...]
