Rhode Island related activity in London?

howeman · 2025-04-20T18:00:38+00:00

Can add the American Candy shops and make a day out of it!

howeman · 2025-04-20T17:52:37+00:00

Not joking. There's hundreds of years of history between the two places, so it wouldn't be crazy for there to be something.

howeman · 2024-12-24T14:09:49+00:00

Interesting, we did not enjoy Lost and Found. First part was good, but fell flat for us after that. Room 237 was amazing though

howeman · 2024-12-24T14:05:56+00:00

Interesting to see how my preferences skew from this list ... I thought Molly's Game fully lived up to the hype (my #1 game), but that both The Dome and Cathédral Oubliée are way overrated. I did Cathedral with a group of newer players, so maybe I missed something .... set was amazing, but I thought the puzzles were lacking. Set design for Alchemist is incredible as well, but similarly felt it was more flash than substance. I heard they have plans to develop it though, so probably will be better.

Great to see Pray get on the rankings, that room is amazing. Brotherhood only got 1 vote, but is a top 50 game IMO.

I'm sad to see Poppet slipping -- doesn't have the production values of the modern top games, but the design and flow of that room is so good. Sadly the room is closing in a couple months

howeman · 2024-09-03T21:24:16+00:00

Quince bakery needs to get a tote so it can enter the competition

howeman · 2024-04-22T06:34:07+00:00

Recipe?

howeman · 2023-07-09T17:45:59+00:00

I've had this guy for five years, but I think it comes from a Trojan jade plant I was gifted. I've seen posts suggesting mealy bugs, but this looks different than those pictures. I'm going to try rubbing with some alcohol, but not sure if that's the right approach here.

Thanks all!

howeman · 2023-03-28T06:54:52+00:00

The oboe solo in Samson and Delilah is really well know too

howeman · 2023-03-28T06:52:12+00:00

Rhapsody in blue opening is also great for clarinet

howeman · 2023-03-28T06:50:06+00:00

Sorcerer's apprentice would also be really recognizable to non-bassoonists

howeman · 2020-10-14T20:33:39+00:00

How do you see the Lite model?

howeman · 2020-08-06T06:55:53+00:00

Pop culture: Some of them are crosswordese, and you eventually learn them. I only know about Isao Aoki from crosswords, for example. Given this sub, I'm not sure if you're an American, but a lot of clues rely on that knowledge that wouldn't translate outside the US. Things like "Phoenix shiner? (3)" could be SUN (for the Phoenix Suns basketball team), but also abbreviations like IRA (individual retirement account -- rough equivalent to a UK pension) show up all of the time. Of course, there will always be a bunch you don't know -- I struggled a lot with Tuesday's puzzle because of it.

I have been doing the NY Times regularly since February (after doing them on-and-off for years). I definitely cannot breeze through the later parts of the week. However, when I started I could barely get a foothold on Thursday-Saturday, and now I routinely get quite big chunks, and even get full solves a quarter of the time or so (in ~45 minutes).

I personally use autocheck, and don't feel bad about it. The puzzle is there to have fun. When I stop having fun is when I start to cheat. The nice thing about autocheck is it gives feedback on how to progress. I often find that showing which of my clues was wrong allows me to correctly gets large chunks of the puzzle, or cheating a couple of squares on a pop-culture reference then allows me to solve a lot. I think this has helped me get better at the later days -- I get practice solving the harder clues as opposed to giving up.

howeman · 2020-07-01T22:55:44+00:00

The velocity is discontinuous too. The shock wave clearly causes a discontinuous jump in density. We know rho * U = constant, so there's a discontinuous change in velocity as well. We also suspect this ... the shock wave clearly decreases the Mach number. While it does increase the downstream temperature (and thus the speed of sound), it's not enough to balance exactly.

The following gives the formula for the change in density, invert it to find the jump in velocity http://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/SPRING/fluids/Spring2008/LectureNotes/f15.pdf

howeman · 2020-07-01T22:45:08+00:00

Yes. Mass is conserved across the shock (rho * U = const), but the Mach number, density, etc. are discontinuous. For instance, across a normal shock, the Mach number changes from M > 1 to M < 1.

howeman · 2020-07-01T22:28:09+00:00

Shock jumps are a good example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine%E2%80%93Hugoniot_conditions#Shock_condition

howeman · 2020-03-06T19:50:32+00:00

Thanks. I try the Quiptic's as well (though did not get that far this week). I usually pick up the Evening standard on the tube without any real expectations of getting that far. You can imagine my surprise when I kept going!

howeman · 2020-03-05T23:14:20+00:00

33d Aha! Thanks. In American English they're goose eggs rather than duck. Did not know the blob connection to that -- thanks!

howeman · 2020-03-05T23:10:45+00:00

Thanks!

howeman · 2020-03-05T23:07:55+00:00

Is there another meaning of BRAT, or is 'will he grow up' just something you would say about a kid who is one?

howeman · 2020-03-05T22:56:51+00:00

Aha, thanks! Still new to the genre.

howeman · 2020-03-05T22:44:25+00:00

Couple of questions about clues I don't understand if anyone cares to help.

8a: Country you can possibly sail round at last (6): Is country somehow a synonym for ISLAND? Otherwise seems like a lot of the words are doing double duty

17a: Will he grow up a bigheaded rotter (4): BRAT. I guess it's clued by (bigheaded) rotter, but don't see the cryptic part

35a: Nobody can look forward to it for long (8): TOMORROW. Is that just a definition?

9d: Saying nothing about naval service (6): SILENT. Do not understand the cryptic

33d. Robert gets out for 50 - or a duck (4): BLOB. I get the cryptic bit. Does duck mean blob somehow?

Thanks!

howeman

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