Ambuscade!

[tablesaw]

I was ambuscaded by another hot day, which woke me up at five after about as many hours of sleep. I need to keep better track of the weather forecasts. The last few hours have been painful to get through. Thankfully, work is slow. Instead, I devoted some time to cluing NYT attempt II.

Seeing aussie_nyc's travel update [journal deleted, link not preserved in transfer from LJ] reminds me that my own trip to Indianapolis, Indiana (the city so nice they named it twice and added "polis") for the NPL convention is only two weeks away. Um, wow. Time has been a bit distorted for me in the past week, but still, I haven't been paying attention to this. I'll have to get myself in gear. I don't even know if I'm going to bring anything.

Speaking of the NPL, the npl community on LiveJournal is apparently going to get an appearance in Graffiti on the Sphinx, an informal NPL publication. Treesong asked for my permission to duplicate two flats by me from said community.

And speaking of Treesong, yesterday in the NPL chatroom, we were playing the NPL's own particular brand of $25,000 Pyramid. (Hey, someone rewrote the intro to that page. Great!) Anyway, I've found myself particularly haunted by a series of clues I gave yesterday, based on a category by Treesong:

• Our heroes encounter a logic problem that does have enough information to solve it.
• Harry is shocked to discover that he killed James and slept with Lily.
• Hagrid fortuitously raises a strangely footed beast in the Forbidden Forest.
• The challenge turns out to be Tom Marvolo himself.

Divining the category is left as an exercise to the reader.

Comments

[thedan.livejournal.com]

Events from Harry Potter and the Riddle of the Sphinx, maybe? (Although I don't think that utilizes all the information given...)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I think that gets it nicely--good call. (I'd complained earlier--Monday?--about the fact that book one has a logic problem in it that, while Hermione has enough information to solve it, the reader does not.) And "Riddle of the Sphinx" does neatly explain that weird Oedipus thing in the second clue.