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February 24, 2026

TV Tuesday 2/24/26

The last edition of TV Tuesday ended with the line: “There’s more to report, but I’ve hit my word ceiling and will abruptly stop.” That was three weeks ago, so now there’s even more to report. (Baseball starts soon, and that will have a big impact on how many shows and movies I can watch.)

That last post focused on movies I’d seen. This time much of the focus in on a related pair of TV shows I finished watching. One is a French TV series about a female “Sherlock Holmes” who works as a police consultant. The other is its American adaptation.

I like the French original better. (No surprise there, right?)

7 Comments | tags: adaptations, Audrey Fleurot, Bill Murray, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Priest, Jim Jarmusch, Kaitlin Olson, Sean Connery, Ted Danson | posted in Movies, TV Tuesday

August 14, 2020

Island of Blue-Eyed People

By Wyrd Smythe

Expert Logician

For a little Friday Fun I have a logic puzzle for you. I’ll give you the puzzle at the beginning of the post, detour to some unrelated topics (to act as a spoiler barrier), and then explain the puzzle in the latter part of the post. I would encourage you to stop reading and think about the puzzle first — it’s quite a challenge. (I couldn’t solve it.)

The puzzle involves an island with a population of 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and a very strange social practice. The logic involved is downright nefarious, and even after reading the explanation, I had to think about it for a bit to really see it. (I still think it’s twisted.)

To be honest, I’m kinda writing this to make sure I understand it!

21 Comments | tags: Daniel Craig, George Lazenby, James Bond, logic, logic puzzle, NASA, Pierce Brosnan, Randall Munroe, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Terry Tao, Timothy Dalton | posted in Math