Off-Grid

It’s a new year of #OffGridPod, where Spock’s logical queries take us into an episode full of whiskers, walruses and… wabbits!


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While there is passing mention of English Imperialism, it’s probably not what you think, so fear not, and click play to learn more about puzzling crocodiles, potentially dangerous rocks, and questionable films:

If the player doesn’t show, here’s a direct download mp3 link.

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New!: Follow us on the Fediverse (Mastodon). Search for @offgridpod@offgrid.tlmb.net

The featured crossword puzzle, by Falcon. Explanations are here. (Spoilers!)
The General recommends this Bluesky account, Mog’s puzzles in The Independent (eg 7th January), and this Square Chase.
Dave is @skirwingle on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Twitter in that order of activity, and would like to remind you of these Issues. Take a seat with this crossword, wear your Union Flag waistcoat for this one, or take the number 58.
Void is @TheVoidTLMB on Mastodon mostly, very inactive on Bluesky and no longer checks his twitter at all. His latest Indy crossword was on Jan 18th here, and his last blog puzzle will stay Blank until you fill it in. The old Mev Indies are here.

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Spoilers and links below the pic…

By MusikAnimal; – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

– The mathematician‘s proto-Scrabble is perhaps easier to get your head around than the double acrostic.
– Some of the logician’s puzzles can be found on the professor‘s site about them here.
– Not rabbit on a trip, but a villainous pinniped (See below).
– You can playfully encounter the log (ahem) of the rains (ahem) online here.
– Not a coin in an SD card slot, but…
– Arthur, et al
– Yes, it looks like the same chap’s associated with one of our nearest neighbours, at number 359. Would he have like Cheetos? We’ll probably never know.
– On a scale of 1-10, how scared are you?
– James’ podcast
– Not these Notes, but these Queries.
– This film obviously didn’t get the memo, and so was a success.
– The book Dave mentioned.
– Squirrel this bit of knowledge away in case you ever need it for some Californica-bun?
– We’re not so sure how popular it was with various chancellors, but it seems to have been quite a common presidential trait.
– David started here, went here, and was mentioned (along with the void, but probably not The Void) here.
– The place to find details of Dalí, amongst others…
– …or another, to get your handlebars.

Someone wise, erudite and, er, recursive wrote a review of The Trudy‘s new mini-album. Their official web site is also clickable.

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