NPR Sunday Puzzle for today (May 28)
Two people in the news together, one with a 3 letter last name, and the other with an 8 letter last name.
Move the first letter of the 8-letter name to the beginning of the 3-letter name, and you’ll have two synonyms. What are the synonyms, and who are the people?
Answer below the fold.
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This online exhibit is perfect for the budding art historian with a penchant for scientific analysis. The Deconstruction section is a particularly cool bit of web work.
It’s part of a larger exhibit space with displays on pigments and butter (among others). I don’t think I’d like bog butter, but who knows? I’ve never tried it.
More table-top macro cliché:
Poppies!
Of course, this picture doesn’t really do justice to the glow these double poppies have in front of the dark green fir. But it’ll do.
We’re planning a drive cross-country this summer, and I’m getting ready by ripping CD books onto my laptop. I got these books from the Library.
Now, on a morality scale, this seems pretty bad. I mean, I didn’t pay (other than the library millage) for this book, and I’m taking the data with me when I give the book back to the library.
I rationalize this to being able to listen to the book at my pace, instead of being only part way finished with it when it’s due to be returned. In addition, the library’s property will be safer in my house (or the library, after being quickly returned) than in a van full of people and stuff going to the west coast and back. Plus, it’s likely I won’t ever listen to the book again. I’m not a big rereader, even of paper-based books.
So how bad is bad? The books I rip are usually ones I’d never read otherwise. Isn’t it preferable for the author to be read at all?
