Navigating The Finite: December 2013

Friday, December 20, 2013

Solution to Google Doodle 100th Anniversary of The Crossword Puzzle

http://www.google.com/logos/2013/crossword/crossword13.html

NOTE! Edit 12/22/13: Google took the Doodle down on Sunday 12/22/13. If you missed it or want to try it again, you can find a fully operational interactive version here:

http://www.google.com/logos/2013/crossword/crossword13.html

You will still get the Congratulations box shown below when you correctly complete the puzzle.

Today, Friday 12/20/13, the Google Doodle is an interactive crossword puzzle celebrating the 100th anniversary of the crossword puzzle on this weekend. You can read about how Arthur Wynne created the first crossword puzzle 100 years ago for the New York World newspaper here:

Christian Science Monitor, December 20, 2013, Crossword inventor honored with puzzling Google doodle

Supposedly Google is not going to publish the solved puzzle, leaving that up to users. I did the puzzle and my solution is shown below. Warning, I am not very good at crossword puzzles! I only cheated a little wee bit. I am curious to see how many hits I generate on this post this weekend.

I found this site to be helpful with the solution:

http://www.reference.com/crossword/index.html

EDIT: When you solve the puzzle correctly, you will see this notification:

Sorry, the time was too embarrassing!

SPOILER: THE PUZZLE IS SOLVED BELOW!

Rev 1, Wrong... See Rev 2

Click On Image To Enlarge

Indeed I had mistake in 51 down, 56 and 61 across. Here is Rev 2 but I still didn't get a time from Google, so there must be another error.

Rev 2, Still Wrong... See Rev 3

Rev 2 Still Wrong!

Rev 3, Tah Dah! Correct!

Rev 3 Correct at last!

OK I finally got my time from Google and that will remain unpublished! Rev 3 is correct!

EDIT: Midnight (Friday/Satuday) 12/21/13 This post was published at 6:47 PM on Friday 12/20/13. It is now midnight (5 hours and 13 minutes later) and the post had 1018 page views. My normal traffic is between 20 to 50 page views a day!

EDIT 12/21/13 This post has received 4500 hits in the first 24 hours that it has been posted.

EDIT Midnight (Saturday/Sunday) 12/22/13: Today this blog received 5555 hits (StatCounter). My previous record was something like 250. This post has received 5927 hits (Blogger) since I published it on Friday 12/20/13.

EDIT 12/24/13 Tuesday, 12:40 AM On Sunday the blog received 869 hits (StatCounter). The post has received a total of 6673 hits (Blogger). On Monday the blog received 468 hits (StatCounter). The post has received a total of 7015 hits (Blogger). Here is the graphic screen from StatCounter.

StatCounter For Google Crossword Puzzle Solution

You can see my normal traffic on the left Tuesday thru Thursday. Friday, the post was up for 5 hours. Saturday through Monday were for 24 hours each day.

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Quotes

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide for those who have too little.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Speech

Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” W. B. Yeats

"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."

Edward P. Tryon

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell

“My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”
― Harry S. Truman

"Grant, O God, that we may always be right, for Thou knowest we will never change our minds."

Old Scottish Prayer

“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t."

Admiral Hyman Rickover

"The feeling remains that God is on the journey too." St. Teresa of Avila

"Wisht I knowed what all the sins was, so I could do ’em."

Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
- Douglas Adams

Trust those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it.
. . . From The Bumper Sticker.

Religion is belief in someone else's experience; spirituality is having your own experience.

Source unknown. Passed on by Olga

ESCHEW OBFUSCATION
. . . From The Bumper Sticker

On taking your time & paying attention to details:

"Few, if any, of the world’s problems can be solved with a mere twenty minutes of attention, and yet here, in the complex sociopolitical landscape of the bedroom, we have an opportunity to create bilateral satisfaction."

Ian Kerner

"We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways."

Kent Nerburn

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightement. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic.

Sir Horace Lamb 1932

Quoted in Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, by Anderson, Tannehill, and Pletcher, 1984.

Well, you know the definition of right and wrong constantly changes, but the definition of honesty never does. NPR, interview with Jim Garrett.

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”

Ted Hughes

The older I get...

the better I was.

From The Tee Shirt.

My head is firmly up my ass, and it is the 1950s in there.

Sextant in an email to a friend.

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

The H1 (Humvee) will be marketed to "RUGGED INDIVIDUALISTS". These are people who are irreverent and daring and want to be seen that way by other people, Mr. DiGiovanni said. "The rugged individualists are people WHO REALLY SEEK PEER APPROVAL...."

Source unknown.

The Next Page / Memo to: Grandchildren. Re: Life

After his life was saved by air bags and serendipity, Ray Werner got to thinking: What wisdom can I write down for the kids?

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Werner’s article:

ARROGANCE is a blindfold on your talent and makes you deaf to the wisdom of those who believe in your brilliance.

DESTINY is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice.

TO MOCK YOUR CHILDREN is to make them the heirs of an idiot.

SOMETIMES GOD SENDS US something to slow us down so that we can do more with the time we have.

LIFE is not measured in years but in moments.

A MAN’S PASSION proclaims his destiny and anchors his life. So fall in love with something. It will decide everything.

PIttsburgh Post-Gazette, The Next Page, Memo To Grandchildren, RE: Life, Sept. 2, 2012