| New Place to Eat in Cary |
[Apr. 17th, 2009|11:40 am] |
Ok, well, it's not a new place, exactly, but it has become more of a place to eat (as opposed to a place to go and buy food to eat elsewhere).
To say that La Farm Bakery in Cary is the best bakery in Cary is to sell it short considerably. Best in North Carolina is better but still may be faint praise. And now, just when I was starting to get my weight headed in the right direction again, they have added a cafe with light table service and an espresso bar.
The lovely wife and I had breakfast there this morning. The croissant stuffed with scrambled eggs, ham and Gruyere was lovely, the cream tart with berries was wonderful and my espresso macciato was perfect.
And, of course, they still have their bakery counter.
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| Meta Puzzle |
[Apr. 6th, 2009|10:31 am] |
I don't usually click on ads I see on web pages I am reading but this one caught my attention and I clicked it.
Clicking it leads to this page on a domain named quizapanda.com which claims to be the first question in an IQ test. The page offers four multiple choice answers:
A.16 C.20
B.17 D.21
Those of you with a mathematical bent will notice that all four answers are wrong. But that happens.
Wondering if anyone else had noticed I Googled for "quizpanda" and "trianges" and, sure enough, I found this thread discussing the question.
But, on closer inspection, I found that the discussion was not about the page I had seen but a different page on quizpanda that offered the same question as a "warmup question" ... but with four different wrong answers:
A.29 C.64
B.30 D.81
So, here is my puzzle for you: What is going on with the Quizpanda web site? Why do they have the same IQ question twice with two different sets of all-wrong answers? One set of wrong answers I could understand but two non-overlapping sets of bogus foils makes you wonder what they are up to.
Any theories?
Oh, by the way, the right answer is 27. That's 16 triangles with sides of length 1, 7 more with sides of length 2, 3 with length 3, and 1 with length 4. To see them, click the yellow button on this page. |
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| Pat a Cake |
[Oct. 23rd, 2008|05:30 pm] |
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, mugger man
Give my your dough as fast as you can
I'll bat you, and roll you, and mark you with "B"
And put you in the hospital for Barack and me.
While it is unfair to blame to Obama campaign for this I would like a brief hiatus in the reporting of the hateful things that McCain supporters may (or may not) have shouted at a rally.
A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said. |
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