August 08, 2005
Whose Fish Is This?
Five men, of five different nationalities, live in 5 different colored houses on the same block. Each man prefers a different beverage, a different cigarette, and owns a different pet.
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Princes.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
The real question: Who keeps the fish?
If you can't solve this purportedly Einsteinian puzzle (yes, it's solvable), you're not alone. In fact, you're in good company, since 98% of the world's population can't either.
If you do come up with the solution (on your own, full solution - no guessing), congratulations - you are a member of the elite I-may-not-be-smart-or-anything-but-I-can-solve-logic-puzzles 2%! ...
... Just like me.
June 19, 2005
I can't believe I'm doing this...
As many of you know, I hate referral based advertising. I hate it. It's always a matter of "here - impose yourself on your friends so that you can get something you want!" Sure, I wouldn't mind an iPod or a PSP, but I certainly don't have any immediate pressing need for one...
But, unfortunately, I am going to ask for your help with something...
FreeFlatScreens.com is giving away a nice selection of flat screen TVs and (and this is the noteworthy part) flat panel monitors. Flat panel monitors are not cheap, and, for all the computers I have in my house, I am desperately short of good monitors.
And so I am reduced to begging.
Here's how this works:
- Click here.
- Choose which monitor / TV you would like.
- Complete ONE offer.*
- Refer enough friends, and you've got your stuff.
* I, personally, chose the RealRhapsody promotion - it's $0.99 for the first month's subsctiption, you get credit for completion immediately, the first five songs you download are free, and you can cancel any time.
Eight. That's how many friends I have to bum into doing this.
And I can't believe I just did that.
