Indivertible Eugenol

I was surprised to get eugenol as a randomly generated word, since I had to remember it for a biology test the other day (apparently it is good for numbing the itchiness of bug bites) and I think that the definition of indivertible is self-explanatory. On the topic of titles, Jon confused me with Monism Bruit because at first I thought it was French (monisme is French with an 'e' at the end), and although I did direct random people from France here the other day, in hopes that we would get a visitor from all of the continents, I was fairly certain that Jon wouldn't have made any of them a contributor. On a side note, we actually have eleven people who read the blog enough to vote (though I now think I shouldn't have put a "Both suck" option, because the results are pretty saddening (but not a goat)) which is good! According to Google Analytics, we had 40 visitors on the 24th of December, and yesterday we were down to twelve (I guess people stopped checking as often once I stopped posting) so hopefully we'll get more readers soon.

Anyway, I should probably explain my prolonged absence (or at least I can't think of anything better to write about), therefore I will:

THE EXPLANATION OF JOSH'S PROLONGED ABSENCE

Part 1 - The Introduction

I bet I'll forget to make a part 2, but I felt like making titles... anyway, it all started last Thursday night. Jon had come over, and we had played about 5 straight hours of The Simpsons Game, which was pretty fun (maybe I'll talk about that later if I feel like it). Once he left, I went into the kitchen where my mom was getting a drink and we had a conversation that went something along these lines:

Me: Mom, is anything happening on Sunday?

Mom: Ya...

Me: What are we doing?

Mom: ...

Me: ...

Mom: We'll be in Florida, of course!

Me: ...

Mom: Speaking of which, you should go pack.

I think that was the first time that I went on a trip with only one day's notice (actually, the plane took off about 18 hours later), but it doesn't really make a difference, I guess. So then I packed my bag (I really only brought a Dilbert book and a Rubik's Cube which I didn't even end up touching the whole trip, so that wasn't very difficult), slept, then left.

Part 2 - The Flight

The flight was funny, because, as usual, Air Canada overbooked, but for once everyone actually showed up, and as we were one of the last people to get to the airport, there were no seats left aside from those in first class, so that's where we went. It was nice to have ample leg space and a person who hangs up your coat before the flight, though on a 2 and a bit hour flight to Florida, it didn't make much of a difference.

Part 3 - The Rest (ya okay, I just put part 2 in so that the story wasn't too short).

Actually, there's not much to say about the rest of it. Probably the most unexpected part was the temperature while we were there. The first day, it was about 30 degrees, the second was 26, the third 20, and the fourth, -2. The negative two especially surprised me (I would insult Al Gore here, but I realize that I don't actually hate Al Gore for any particular reason, and yet insult him often anyway, so I won't), but I think it would have been worse for the people who came to Florida and only packed shorts and tee-shirts.

Part 4 - The Other Flight

Well, we didn't get to go on first class this time, but I did get to watch Transformers on the little screen in front of my seat (which I find funny to play with, especially their weird version of connect-4), and it was a pretty good movie. Oh, and I also came up with another logic puzzle, and I do not think that Jon will be able to write an algorithm to solve it. At least, I hope not.

LOGIC PROBLEM THE THIRD

One day Josh wandered off to Universal Studios, and wound up in Seuss Landing. There, he found lots of whos and loraxes and grinches and such, and decided to figure out which one was which (his memory of Dr. Seuss suddenly got erased or something like that). Anyway, he wanted to find the name, number of eyes, color (JAVA spells it without a 'u', and thus I will as well), and main characteristic of each of the five characters that he saw (of course, they are all unique in all aspects), and as this is a logic puzzle, he got the following hints:

1. The Cat in the Hat, has 2 more eyes than the Fluffy character, which does not have just 1 eye.
2. The Pink character doesn't have a Lumpy or Smooth body and has less than 4 eyes.
3. The Five eyed creature is not Greasy and is not Red.
4. The Lorax is Grey or Pink and has 3 more eyes than the Smooth bodied character, which is not the Who.
5. Horton the Elephant has 1 less eye than the Lumpy bodied character and less eyes than the Greasy bodied character.
6. The Red/Brown character has more eyes than the Hairy bodied character, which happens to be pink.
7. The Grinch, like all the other characters, is not Green.

Good Luck!



(I was just thinking about that episode, so I posted it for fun)

Anyway, I don't feel like blogging anymore, so ttyl