CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE:
[ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Crossword Solver]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
This mind-ripping photo appeared in my inbox yesterday. That dashing fellow at the desk would be yours truly and, believe it or not, I’m twenty-one in that picture. Amazing. I look like my voice just started cracking and shaving was still a few years out. Come to think of it, both were probably true.
Thanks to old friend Ron Kleiner, of Concord, NH, for this one. Ron writes:
I saw on your website that you’re looking for pictures of people doing your crosswords. I don’t have one of those. But, I do have a picture of you creating one of your crosswords. That has to be worth a bunch of bonus points, right? This was taken your senior year at UNH in [name removed to protect the innocent]’s room at our Woodsides appartment. If memory serves, the puzzle you’re creating in the picure is the first one you sent off to the NYT. (That’s my dictionary in the picture).
First off, I’d like to repeat, not my room. Therefore not my saxophone. Or my drug rug. Just had to get that out of the way.
Secondly, I call in question whether or not I am actually making that first NY Times puzzle, because I can guarantee I made it over Christmas break 95/96 back at the folks’ place. But, I can safely say that by senior year, I was mailing in each and every class I’d enrolled in (“Desire in Film” was one of the classes I took spring of 96. Seriously). And I was probably concentrating more on puzzle making than doing any sort of classwork. So, it’s quite likely this is an early BEQ in action shot. Wow.
I went back and forth over whether or not I should have posted this one. But, then I thought, back in the mid-90s it was the vogue thing for bands to run pictures of the band members as children (See: Sebadoh). And seeing as this picture was probably taken in January 1996, and I look like an adolescent, it seems sort of oddly appropriate. (Note: I own seven Sebadoh CDs. And we wonder why I look like a pencil-necked geek in this picture?)
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
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