Michael Strasser

Software dev, singer, thinker etc. Retired.

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@LRxword The new TSP crossword format does not show if a completed grid is correct or not. That’s disappointing.

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@LRxword Not sure about 4D in TSP 557. Possible mistake in clue?

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@LRxword Solved TSP 545 but unsure about how 15D works.

Anagram is clear but don’t know how the remainder of the clue gives the extra letter.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Mathematics. Physics. A glimpse of another reality.

By Dave Coverly, @speedbumpcomic,, https://t.co/NJz2h49oWh, Used with permission.

[cartoons from iffland (@edmundiffland.bsky.soc) @edmundiffland]

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[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Want to know the difference between the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans? Just look at their statues.

Art always tells you what a society wants to believe about itself.

So, from the Soviet Union to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here's what art says about who we are...

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@miriamcosic Are you posting on Mastodon? I haven’t seen anything. (Happy birthday, BTW)

[Titus O'Reily @TitusOReily]

Loving that the English are bewildered by a keeper who knows what he’s doing. #Ashes

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@LRxword Does 11D clue have word order transposed?

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

From Parker Higgins on Mastodon:

“They had to call them ‘driving instructors’ because autodidacts was already taken”

I thought you’d like this, @dontattempt

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@Manic_Henry @firstdogonmoon I smuggled one at the pool this morning!

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@masknerd Do you think this stacks up?

https://t.co/uZo9xy06sF

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

Our dear Buddy just before he got the green juice, 18 months ago.

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@randlight @davpope This cartoon appears unsigned. Very unusual but no mistaking who created it!

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

Rather a lot of people carrying sticks #Coronation

[Adam Neely @its_adamneely]

If the estate of Ed Townsend beats Ed Sheeran, the same musicological arguments could be applied to Ed Townsend’s first hit, For Your Love.

For Your Love is a doo-wop song that sounds...suspiciously similar to another doo-wop classic - At Last.

How similar?

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[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

@randlight @Broelman @davpope ?

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

Misspelled word in 10A clue today, @LRxword? (Just an enquiry.)

[Michael Strasser @pharsicle]

The article I wrote about using Kafka Streams to combine CDC transactional messages has been published by @confluentinc
https://t.co/SMLgtHLzQc