NinePeedles

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[–] NinePeedles 3 points 3 days ago

Dude looks scrawny AF. You could take him

 

Did this one with my daughter. She's definitely starting to get it.

 

The image would have made this puzzle very challenging if it weren't for the pattern of the pieces. All the pieces alternated between one of two shapes - knobs on the top and bottom with holes on the sides; and holes on the top and bottom with knobs on the side.

It's kinda hard to see when it's assembled, but most of the pieces looked the same when they didn't have surrounding pieces to build the image.

Aside from that, the pieces were small and flimsy.

[–] NinePeedles 3 points 1 week ago

That aligns. The publishing date of the puzzle says 1970.

[–] NinePeedles 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This puzzle looks really fun. I've never heard of BigPotato. What was the quality like?

[–] NinePeedles 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a software engineer working remotely, and this has been my final blocker with moving to Wayland. Most team chat and collaboration apps finally support full screen sharing on Wayland, but the existing implementation is buggy and unreliable.

 

This puzzle was fairly old. I'm surprised the pieces are all there.

 

My wife and daughter found this weird puzzle at the grocery store. My daughter definitely takes after me.

 
 

High quality puzzle. Sadly it was missing six pieces.

 

Oh man. All of my horse puzzles are done. I think I've had enough of horses for a little while.

[–] NinePeedles 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've wondered the same thing. It's impressive.

 

I had an affinity for puzzles at a pretty young age, so my mother grabbed me this one from a yard sale. This was my first "big kids" puzzle. I put it together countless times. You can see it's seen a lot of use and abuse - there's a piece missing, one piece is ripped in half, a couple of them were chewed on by my toddler brother. This was the first time I put it together in well over twenty years - the first time since my mom passed away and we sold my childhood home; the first time since buying my own home; the first time since I got married; the first time since I started a family. It brought back a lot of memories.

 

Three or of four horse puzzles down... Just one left.

 

Second horse puzzle in this box of four horse puzzles.

 

I inherited this puzzle from my friend who loves horses. This came in a collection of four puzzles called Horse Collection. The quality of the pieces was pretty poor. They peeled apart very easily, so I had to be pretty careful.

 

My daughter picks which puzzles I do next. I guess she was feeling the Christmas season. The quality of this puzzle was very high. The pieces felt great, and the white was painted over to glow in the dark! Even with the random cut pieces, this puzzle was very easy.

[–] NinePeedles 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had this issue about a year ago on my work Ubuntu computer. I think I solved it with Solaar. Sorry that's not a more confident answer. I hope it's a good lead for you.

[–] NinePeedles 3 points 2 months ago

My guess is skunks. They occasionally make a mess of my backyard

[–] NinePeedles 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anecdote about living on a well. We live in a new house in the New England. The cost of our water is the cost of the electricity to run the water pump. It's not very expensive. The best part /s about having a well is when there's a bad storm that knocks out power, we lose water. When neighbors in the area know a storm is coming, we have to take steps like filling our bathtubs with water to use for flushing our toilets and stocking up on gallons of water from the grocery store.

[–] NinePeedles 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] NinePeedles 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know. White Christmas? Batman & Robin?

Edit: White Christmas is a masterpiece.

[–] NinePeedles 2 points 3 months ago

Comma vs hyphen

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