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NYT crossword for today, Feb. 6, 2023:

My wife and I watch Cracking the Cryptic, a YouTube channel that solves sudoku and talks through the logic. I’ve seen similar with the NYT Crossword, so I decided to give it a shot. Pretty fun (though I’m terrified of mispronunciations). Here’s today’s puzzle:

I’m not entirely convinced that cryptic crosswords aren’t a collective Mornington Crescent-style joke being played on the rest of us.

Groundhog day again

9:30 a.m. and I’ve already watched the movie, had coffee and finished the NYT crossword. Turns out getting up early to drop my kid off at the bus makes me do stuff in the morning. Not productive stuff (so far), but progress.

Sounds like the Dallas Zoo…

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…has a mole.

An image from a newspaper of "Today in History". Today's highlight reads "On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany." Other items include King Charles I executed, the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the assassination of Mohandas Ghandi, the Tet Offensive, the death of Coretta Scott King and the first known case of coronavirus spread in the U.S.

Boy, today’s Today In History in the Post-Dispatch (web version) starts bad, stays bad and ends with a doozy.

I like that Siri can read notifications, but it went 0-for-2 on a message from my TV that “Southern Eel” is about to play “Illinois Street”.

In reply to https://monogram.org/@brianboyer/109724984805968367:

A vegan has been gifted a jar of giardiniera*. They have asked you for advice on how to enjoy it. What do you suggest?…

I’d make some vegan stuffed portobellos and top them off with it.

An image of some text from a newspaper. It is in three columns. In the first two columns, the first line of a paragraph is the last line of text. The last one has a single word on the last line.

I know page design is handled at a hub and very quickly by people with too much to do, but this sort of thing still snags my brain when I look at a paper. Three stragglers at the bottom of three columns, and one of them is hyphenated.

I realize I’m to the point in my life where if I do anything really good I’m going to be held up as an inspirational example like “he did his first X at age Y: it’s never too late to do that thing you want to do”.