Liliaceous chromolithograph

liliaceous (adj.): of the Liliaceae family that contains the lily, tulip and hyacinth

chromolithograph (n.): A color lithograph, specifically those of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Another fairly random, short, post, with no specific focus. Anyway, a few things:

1. I'm surprised Josh hasn't commented about this, especially since he bothered to download the entire thing to his iPod. But they've ripped the sound track from Super Smash Bros. Braw, and you can easily find it on Youtube or elsewhere by googling "Brawl OST" (which is quite ironic, because as far as I can tell, it's not really official). Try this link. The song in that link is the "Final Destination" song for Brawl, and it's probably the best composition in the game. But of course, since it's more or less done by Uematsu.

2. Time for a real logic puzzle: Find a six-letter word such that any consecutive 4 letters or consecutive 5 letters are also a word.

So for example, if your six-letter word was "abcdef", then: "abcd", "bcde", "cdef", "abcde", "bcdef" would all also have to be words (in addition to "abcdef").

I randomly came up with this during a pretty long car ride, so perhaps it's not too hard, but I'm pretty surprised by how all of those turned out to be words. There's also very possibly more than one solution - the solution I'm thinking of though, also has the nice property that 2 (3 if you count slightly obscure words) of the 4 consecutive three-letter strings are also words.

If you can find a solution such that all the three-letter strings are also words, that would be very impressive. But that's probably impossible due to vowel-consonant positioning, etc.

3. I had the occasion to hear some music from Diablo II today (in a quite unexpected setting actually), which reminded me that it was a pretty amazing game. It's fairly cheap now, so if you're bored one day you should go and pick it up for $15-$20 or so.

The music was just a random note, by the way - the music is good, but it's not Final Fantasy epic good. It fits the game really well though.

Until next time, ciao.

-squidout