
Advent of Code Days 8 and 9 -- Ghost Story
It took me so long to figure out the Day 8 puzzle that I didn’t write it up before bed, so twofer today to catch up.

It took me so long to figure out the Day 8 puzzle that I didn’t write it up before bed, so twofer today to catch up.

Vanity, thy name is Reman shields You can’t think of “Star Trek” and coliseums together without thinking immediately of the original series episodes “Bread and Circuses”, where the Enterprise crew beam into a 20th century version of the Roman Empire, and “Amok Time”, where Kirk and Spock battle to the death on the planet Vulcan. (The director of “Bread and Circuses”, Ralph Senensky, blogs about directing that episode – a must read! Includes bloopers!) ...