nyt 8/12

Difficulty: *****/5




Yea, do not try this at home.

lat 08/10

Difficulty: **/5

lat 7/10 ("4x4")

Difficulty: ** to ***/5

lat 6/25

Difficulty: ****/5




hard-ish, i think, and not really the best puzzle i've made, but we live and learn.

lat 5/27

Difficulty: ***/5

lat 5/5

Difficulty: ***/5

nyt 4/21

Difficulty: *** (and a half?)/5




Clue for 36-Down was originally [Sub type?]. Guess the puzzle was hard enough already.

lat 3/26

Difficulty: ****/5




it's themeless, and toughish. and no, i have not suddenly become a republican.

notes:
* 55-Across was originally [Like some MRI scans]. Guess that was never going to fly.
* Clues that were vastly improved: 43-Down, 59-Across, 52-Down
* Original clues I preferred: 54-Down was [It has its points], and 42-Down [Pot dealer?]
* Clue that most betrays this puzzle as mine, if you know me at all: 10-Down

i am slightly embarrassed to admit that i'm addicted to angry birds.

lat 12/15

Difficulty: **/5




I guess it was only a matter of time before I decided to make a vaguely psych-related puzzle. As you might have guessed, 49-Across was originally a Hitchhiker's Guide related clue.

of course

singapore's salad days are over

we has data

well, 2 pilot subjects anyway, dr. fnir and RA #1. primary lesson learned: it is much grosser than one might imagine watching people spit into a tube. i have a little cubic container in which to store all my samples, which means i get to happily watch it fill up day by day like a pokedex, or one of those old panini sticker albums. will be slogging it out on my own for the next month, after which we will hopefully have RA #2 and an intern, whereupon i plan to devote myself to the careful study of epigenetics, and where in NUS to get the best cup of coffee.

more burger (thanks su-lin)

all i want for christmas

randall the enamel animal

this may have come from one of you guys, but since su-lin and i were talking about it today:

best burger ever

it's been a long time coming, but i think i'm finally going to start getting data in a couple of weeks. while it wasn't surprising how long and irritating the process of getting ready for this experiment was, it didn't make it any less painful to have to go through, and has certainly answered a lot of questions (in very minute detail) about why there's such a dearth of good science here despite the best efforts of the-powers-that-be.

anyway, i think i'll be in a more forgiving mood once subjects start streaming through the door. i'm aiming to start slow and accelerate to a clip of 40 subjects a week, which may not sound like that many to a behavioral psychologist, but for someone who's done imaging his whole career (i.e. me) is like having half the CBD come through the lab each day. still, it'll be nice to have busy work for a while, filing and macros and backups and lots of numbers in neat, straight columns.

Finale, Poulenc's "Les dialogues des Carmelites"

powerful stuff.

LAT 11/9

Difficulty: * (out of 5)




easy one, with thanks for justin for inspiring the theme.

I know my soul hath power to know all things
Yet she is blind and ignorant in all:
I know I'm one of natures little kings
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

I know my life's a pain and but a span;
I know my sense is mocked in everything;
And, to conclude, I know myself a man --
Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing.

-- John Davies