and things went downhill from there

From this morning's on-line Mensa calendar:



Oh goodie, a logic puzzle (anything is better than the silly anagrams, or palindromes for which they give you three letters and expect you to figure out the rest). These are often good for as much as thirty-seconds to a minute of thought. The first step is to write down the names, then figure out the order.

Here are the names as they appear in the puzzle, along with the clues about their order.

Roger (Roger was not last)
Beth (Beth lost to Roger)
Kelly (but beat Kelly)
Eva (Kelly beat Eva)
Sam (and Sam)

The final piece of the puzzle is that Eva was not last.

Ah, nothing like a mental challenge to get the neurons pumping in the morning -- or not. It appears that these clever folk at Mensa have hidden a very clever clue within the confines of the puzzle. To wit, the finishing ranks were in exactly the same order as they appeared in the puzzle. All one has to do is write down the names and everyone's a winner. Huzzah.

This was about as challenging as that IQ test from Idiocracy. "If you have one bucket with 5 gallons and another bucket with 2 gallons, how many buckets do you have?"

By the way, if you have not seen Idiocracy, for goodness sake go out and rent it!

Here is our (yet to be named) foster cat. She was mostly rescued from frigid, sub-zero temperatures. I say mostly because her ears did not entirely survive the ordeal. Her right ear is almost entirely gone, and her left ear is hanging by a bear thread. I think that the hanging portion is mostly dead skin now. If the ear does not fall off on its own, they will probably trim it away when we take her in to be spayed later.

On the plus side, what is left of the ears is starting to heal up nicely, and she does not seem to be terribly bothered by the loss. She is a very sweet little cat - friendly, personable and playful. I just hope people can see that past the damaged ears when she goes up for adoption.


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If you check out the additional pictures (plus a bonus movie) in atara's journal, as an added bonus you can leave a comment suggesting a name for our latest temporary tennant.

I posted this last year, but they sent me a new one out of the blue.  I didn't know it was a lifetime subscription.  Cool - something for nothing.  <purr>


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