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NaNoGenMo 2021: All the cryptic grids!

2021-12-01T02:03:47Z

On the morning of Saturday, November 27, I was thinking about NaNoGenMo. NaNoGenMo is National Novel Generation Month, which challenges participants to use technology to generate a novel (very loosely defined) of at least 50,000 words during the month of November. While doing so, I came up with an idea that I wanted to attempt.

You may notice that coming up with the idea on the 27th gave me four days to complete the task, two of them workdays. But I succeeded!

( What I made, with links to pdfs along with an image )
( How I made it, with GitHub links )
( What I learned )

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Today's success:

2016-02-20T05:20:24Z

https://oeis.org/A269131

Composite numbers whose largest prime factor are less than their second-largest prime factor's square, counting by multiplicity so that the factors of 18 are 2, 3, 3

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Elseblogging

2013-11-29T15:13:06Z

I have a post up today at my company's tech blog about using OpenSCAD to create 3d objects, specifically a plane-based d20:
http://blog.safariflow.com/2013/11/29/3d-printables-for-programmers/

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Unique connections of N circularly-spaced points

2011-02-05T17:27:17Z

( Much math here )

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Crazy idea! Who's with me?

2010-11-13T17:42:49Z

So, there's a podcast, Coverville, that plays cover songs. I've been listening to it for a number of years, and it's a pretty popular podcast. In a couple of weeks, they're doing a 24-hour coverthon, a half-fundraiser/half-benefit. They're offering hourly sponsorships, which give the sponsor the chance to have their business mentioned multiple times in the hour, and have a logo up on the stream.

My crazy idea is to have one of these hours be sponsored by the letter R and the number 7, as if it were an episode of Sesame Street. We'll be essentially anonymous to the show's listeners.

It'll cost some money (the total for a sponsorship is $150), but I can put up a lot of it, and I have at least one co-conspirator.

Anyway, let me know, by comment, email, or private message, if you want to be part of this. Or if you have any questions.

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