![]() "App game" evokes screen addiction and depression to me. I mean, maybe the puzzle thinks it's fresh and young and modern or whatever, but all I see are beleaguered people hunched over their phones on the subway or bus or in class or whatever. Cluing the ordinary word BEJEWELED that way is. Also, I got comics artist GIL Kane confused with cartoonist BIL Keane, so my "gem-matching app game" (it hurts just to write that) started with a "G" for a while. I confess that my reaction is likely more negative than most because the clue on 1A: Popular gem-matching app game was nails on a chalkboard, every inch of it. Trying to go low with a theme putting restrictive pressure on the grid is always dicey. part?), this is the glut of subpar fill that you usually avoid in a well-produced, wide-open, low-word-count *themeless* grid. BPOE AUS ALTA EER ERR ARTE FIL CAEN ESSE ADSITE LEONI IVANV THU BSIDE OKRAS (plural?) TGI (an exclamation. The wide-open grid would've been more welcome if the fill had been stronger. Also, I don't know if you even bother going back and mentally putting "LIFE" in front of every single theme answer part (I sure didn't-sounds about as exciting as filling out an INSURANCE FORM). gee." Seriously, "gee" is the emotional peak for the solver. What happens is, you finish your grid, and then you read the revealer clue more closely, and then you go "huh." and then you just go back and plug "LIFE" in front of each theme answer word part, and you think "whaddya know, those do make phrases. The worst part about the theme, though, is that it's an old type and a boring type. please enjoy this baseball metaphor, in honor of the end of baseball season-congrats to the Atlanta baseball team: ownership and tomahawk-chopping, fake-war-chanting fans can continue to shove it). I know that by asking for the eradication of the weirdly giant stacks in the NW and SE, it *seems* like I'm asking for more short fill, but really I'm just asking for an overall better-built / better-conceived grid, one where the themers stand out more, and one where I don't have to suffer through weak stack crosses like ARTE or EER (crossing -EER?) or whatever FIL is-I would've thought short for "father-in-law" but no, it's a brand name (strike one) part (strike two), and the brand is notoriously, iconically anti-LGBTQ (strike three. ![]() Admittedly, this is a matter of taste, but I don't think the grid is improved by the stacks in the NW and SE. Aesthetically, I just don't like when themers don't pop, when they're put alongside non-themers of exactly the same length. I don't really understand why the 9s ( LONG STORY, AFTERLIFE) are parts of 9 *stacks*. Only the revealer gave me any sense of what was going on, or where the themers even were. I couldn't even tell which answers were the themers, and solving the puzzle didn't improve matters much on that front. I took one look at the grid and thought "what is a Friday or Saturday grid doing in my Wednesday puzzle?!" 72 words is themeless territory. The low word count was out of place on a Wednesday. I was put off this puzzle right from the start, and despite some nice moments, it never really got me back. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked. In 1991, a functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans. ![]() ![]() Parts of Babbage's incomplete mechanisms are on display in the Science Museum in London. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈ b æ b ɪ dʒ/ 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.īabbage is considered by some to be " father of the computer". Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom. Babbage had a broad range of interests in addition to his work on computers covered in his book Economy of Manufactures and Machinery. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century.īabbage, who died before the complete successful engineering of many of his designs, including his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of computing. ![]()
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