WARBLERS
October 17 2022, Cape May warbler (female/immature)
Yes it's fuzzy, but you can see white tail markings not apparent in the still shots, further evidence of yellow rump too.
WARBLERS
October 17 2022, Cape May warbler (female/immature)
Yes it's fuzzy, but you can see white tail markings not apparent in the still shots, further evidence of yellow rump too.
October 27, 2021
I have two saxophones, an alto and a tenor. The tenor is newer (circa 1965) and has a feature that the 1923 Buescher alto lacks: left-pinky-pushing the Bb/B/C# key also activates the G# key. On the alto the G# key is completely independent.
The electronic Yamaha YDS-150 acts the same as the tenor.
All I had to do was add some bits and pieces to the G# key in the right places so the other keys would push it down. Sorry, no before-mod shots.
*Google says: "The word was first proposed by Davy in the form alumium, and changed by him to aluminum; but was finally made aluminium to conform to the analogy of sodium, potassium, etc. ... And so we land today: with aluminum used by the English speakers of North America, and aluminium used everywhere else."
IGNORE THIS PAGE-IN-PROGRESS.
I bit off more than I could chew!
Trying to learn new tips/tricks here
and
https://sudoku9x9.com/locked_candidates.html
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A SUDOKU MUSING
One of the things I'm a little bit proud of (pride goeth before a fall) in my journey of sorting out how to solve Sudoku puzzles is that I've never looked for any advice. Early on I wrote some VBA code to quickly get past the easy 'giveaway' answers, which was fun in itself, but since then I've only relied on methods and rules I've come up with or set for myself. Neither am I a master of it by any stretch of the imagination, I make a lot of stupid mistakes and keep getting the feeling that I'm missing something in my logical analysis, hoping that another revelation or strategy will appear.
To start with I like the simple approach, it's either this or it's that, binary if you will. However I've not yet got a foolproof notation of such which I think leads to misinterpreting my notes. After the Excel VBA phase I decided that too many notes were not helping me, a cluttered grid gets in the way. In a row, column or square of 9 I'll note two possible places for a number (which I'm thinking sometimes gets me into trouble). More reliable, I think, is determining that a given cell can only be one of two numbers, so I'll note that too. I don't want the clutter of more than two possibilities happening for a given cell, although that still happens sometimes with my current approach.
But that's not what I wanted to talk about here. There's a pattern I've seen but have not yet drawn any conclusions from, so I thought I'd walk through where I am at the moment then see how this particular example plays out in hopes of learning something. So let us start with the 5-star puzzle ("by Dave Green") presented in the Akron Beacon Journal, Sunday October 3, 2021.
In order to discuss this, I'll need a way of identifying cells. I'm sure folks have come up with their own ways of talking about this but as with all other things Sudoku thus far, I'm doggedly blazing my own way. The first and perhaps simplest approach that came to mind was simply to ID each cell by row and column, AA through II. This pays no regard to squares of 9. That would work but...
I like this second approach that came to me. Each square-of-9 (call it a GROUP) will be identified with a letter A through I. Each cell within a group will be identified in the same way with a second letter. Rightly or wrongly I thought that might steer us/me through the grid faster. As with the first ID approach, the very top left cell would be AA, but now the fourth cell in the top row becomes BA.
I looked into the fancy harness things that are available but before getting very far came a little improvisation with what I have on hand.
Lo and behold my first try ain't half bad. I don't know if this is some kind of luggage strap or what, but all I had to do was bend that hook from a bit of sturdy wire (I think it may have been a fly-swatter handle).
Update: This isn't the end-all. Today I'm using a combination of what's shown with the trad neck strap.
To get a concert C I have to finger a Bb on this horn (should be A).
That puzzles me, as since I've owned it I thought it was an alto, presumed to be an Eb instrument. Note: I'm not a sax player, haven't touched this in decades.
MYSTERY SOLVED: I wasn't pushing the mouthpiece on far enough!
But maybe my mouthpiece's opening is too small, going to try a new one. Sid the repair man was certainly able to get his to the right place.
Problem: phone holder won't expand to hold 6.125" length phone.
Challenge: design a solution which is reversible (avoid drilling holes, cutting etc); don't remove existing capability (example, extending the top bracket - my first thought - may solve the initial problem but remove the ability to hold a smaller phone or horizontally positioned phone).