http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:05:25 -0700 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/ http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:noms:earlebyrd&rev=1223326887&do=diff Recruitment Al Gebra gave me and my brother (William Hooke, no Nom as yet) gift subscriptions to The Enigma. Source: email from Earl E. Byrd. First Issue: Mar 1995 Recruits None. Nom Here's my nom story: My father, Al Gebra, has been an Enigma member for many years. When my brother and I were young teenagers, he would occasionally share something with us from one of the issues, or challenge us to solve an easy puzzle. I found it all mildly interesting, and, since I had some ability a… cedar krewe:noms Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:01:27 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:krewehomes&rev=1222744103&do=diff Websites [The Unofficial Coat of Arms] Several NPL members have pages they maintain elsewhere on the web. Some are personal home pages; others are expressions of their other interests. Here is a partial list: * Al DeSuda * Alpha Sleuth™ Word Logic Puzzles * Amalgam's Home page * Alice * Azureware * Btnirn * Clio and her husband's “Find It Here” page * Cliff Johnson is a principal at The Fool's Errand et al. which offers downloads, free of charge, of the classic pu… Joseph DeVincentis krewe Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:08:23 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:nomphotos&rev=1222536532&do=diff In the NPL, members refer to each other by their nom (short for Nom de plume which is a 'pen name'). These are photos involving some of our noms. You can read more in the [Ace] and the nom is... [Dragonfly] and the nom is... [Ember] and the nom is... [Jigsaw] and the nom is... [Last Minute] and the nom is... [Lunch Boy] and the nom is... [Oak] and the nom is... [Quiz] and the nom is... [Rubrick's former nom] and the nom is... [Serendi… Hot krewe Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:28:52 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:noms:avidan&rev=1221147259&do=diff Recruitment Publicity for the upcoming NPL convention in Indianapolis, IN in July 1982 I joined the same Friday evening that I visited the convention. Sent in a sol list for the August, 1982 issue and have sent a sol list every month since. Where had that “hobby” been all my life? Mark Navarrete krewe:noms Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:34:19 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:noms:sibyl&rev=1221144318&do=diff Recruitment Panache was an NPL member some five years before I joined. He might have mentioned NPL to me (we've known each other about 40 years), but didn't exactly suggest I might find it of any note. Can't recall. Anyway, in 1984 he invited Smaug and me to a puzzle gathering at Hudu's, and then someone there invited us to an actual NPL minicon at Sir Ohm's house. Shrdlu was there, I remember, but only briefly, and (no, no more Oz thingies). N.E. One and Ruthless turned up, and at some … Mark Navarrete krewe:noms Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:45:18 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:noms:senor&rev=1221143888&do=diff Recruitment Senor was a walk-in at the Buffalo convention in 1977. Source: Teki, via 1997 convention. First Issue: Aug 1977 Recruits Jaelti, Momus, Pekoe, Reynard. Nom No Data. Combinoms No data. Offices * Treasurer (1982 - 1992) * Forms editor (1990 - 1992) Mark Navarrete krewe:noms Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:38:08 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:noms:saxifrage&rev=1221143325&do=diff Recruitment I was recruited by etc. (whose nom I finally learned, so I can give her proper credit!). I'd heard vaguely of the NPL for some years due to articles in GAMES and whatnot, but it was a conversation backstage during rehearsals for a Gilbert & Sullivan production that we were doing together that she pointed me in the right direction. Mark Navarrete krewe:noms Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:28:45 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:noms:quip&rev=1221141672&do=diff Recruitment WILLz ---> Quip Source: npl-folk email from Quip. First Issue: Feb 1980 Recruits Luv, Poi. Nom I tried to pronounce CWP as a word, that being an insider's abbreviation for “crossword puzzle,” and it came out “quip.” Had I remembered that “w” is a “oo” vowel in Welsh, I'd be KOOP...but QUIP gives me an excuse to joke around. Mark Navarrete krewe:noms Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:01:12 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=krewe:noms:qed&rev=1221137002&do=diff Recruitment I first heard about the NPL when I was in middle school, I believe. I saw an article about it in one of the back issues of GAMES (the school library happened to have a subscription and I loved it). However, it was years before I finally joined. It took some prodding by people I met at the Mohonk Words Weekend who were already members -- WILLz, IRBS, Non Sequitur, etc. Mark Navarrete krewe:noms Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:43:22 -0700 http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=solving:corrigenda:enigma-2008&rev=1220928580&do=diff January 17 — The “6” in the byline is a typo. Please disregard. 29 — The formula for ethanol should be C2H6O. 47 — I apologize to Lilith for rewriting part of her verse, thereby trampling on her punchline. The last two lines were intended to read: crax solving:corrigenda Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:49:40 -0700