January 2010
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My Weekly Top 5 Artists →
Passion Pit (28)
Blue Roses (17)
Animal Collective (16)
Freelance Whales (11)
Explosions in the Sky (4)
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Catch-22
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been reading Joseph Heller’s classic Catch-22, which I’m currently about halfway through. An FT quote on the back of the book reads: “Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique.” I wasn’t sure what that meant until I started reading the book, but it’s now clear to me that the description...
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Answer: Tuesday Teaser #10
The answer is surprisingly simple. If at any stage somebody sits in your seat (number 50), then you will inevitably be forced to sit elsewhere. Similarly, if at any stage somebody sits in seat number 1, then each subsequent person will have their seat available and so you will end up sitting in your own seat. Now at each stage, while seats 1 and 50 are free, there is an equal chance of a person...
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Portugal. The Man (35)
Tune-Yards (29)
Passion Pit (24)
Blue Roses (18)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (18)
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Tuesday Teaser #10
You’re taking a coach trip up to Scotland and are standing in line waiting to board the coach as it prepares to depart from London. There are 50 seats on the coach and each passenger standing in line is assigned one of these seats (for simplicity, suppose they are lined up in order with the first person in line being assigned to seat number 1, etc). Now the first passenger in line is...
My Weekly Top 5 Artists →
Animal Collective (73)
Blue Roses (69)
Frightened Rabbit (35)
Fleet Foxes (30)
Doveman (18)
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Quick Sunday Trivia
Can you name the seven countries of the world that contain the letter ‘J’?
See the comments for the answer.
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Answer: Christmas Teasers
1. This is a tricky puzzle and admittedly the answer involves a somewhat unlikely scenario. The only way I can celebrate my birthday two days before Nicolette is if she was born east of the International Date Line on March 1st of a non-leap year. Assuming we’re travelling (for example, on a flight or a boat), I could then be born nine minutes later west of the International Date Line where...