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Only problem is the CP'ers east of the big pond get the puzzles solved before the new world gets out of bed! 
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Yes the time zones are a difficult pancake.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I can certainly attest to the fact that they are harder to set than solve, but solving still isn't a cakewalk for me. I get one maybe two a week, but not often as fast as some of you guys. The time difference for me just means I can't play in real time, but I still try to work them out each day. I did get today's but needed Randor's explanation to learn how "shh!" becomes "P". And so I learned something new.
I was able to play in real time last March because my wife and I went to Hawai'i for a vacation. Which meant the CCC changed from starting at 3am my time to 10pm - much more doable once I was on Hawai'i time. Ironically, the clue I solved to win was set by Greg Utas from Canada who set it late (1:30am HA time). But, I got up at 2 to take care of some old man business and due to an unfamiliar bedroom layout I woke up more fully than usual. So, I decided to check on the day's CCC. And, much to my surprise (and subsequent terror) won!
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Too late to ask for the solution?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Shh! Caesar's tongue hesitates for shiny metal
Shh! = P
Caesar's tongue = Latin
hesitates = Um
P[^]
Um[^]
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Yeah, my brain just doesn't work that way. I enjoy reading the CCC every day though.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Yeah, my brain just doesn't work that way.
I honestly don't know why some people can't solve them. I guess people are just wired differently.
This is an interesting paper[^] about it.
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I truly believe that people are wired differently. I had a friend in high school who was in many of the same math and science classes as I and was fairly proficient in them as well. We both took an intro to programming course (which set my career path, but not his). He apparently solved problems in a more holistic manner than I did and was nearly incapable of breaking a problem down into smaller and smaller subtasks and steps that could eventually be expressed as code. Give him a list of integers and ask for the average - no problem. But input the list into an array, iterate the array for a sum, divide by the count and output the result? No way. It mystified me as to why it was so difficult for him. Recursion would have driven him right around the bend.
BTW, that paper was indeed interesting. It mentioned a correlation between good solvers and higher education. I suspect the correlation is really more about being more widely read - meaning greater exposure to ideas through reading. I suspect my father, who never finished high school, would have been pretty good at cryptics just because he was such an avid reader on all kinds of topics and had a fairly logical mind.
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Death In Vegas - Help Yourself[^]
I don't really know Death in Vegas, just stumbled upon this song a few months back.
Found it again two weeks ago and then sent it to a friend.
By coincidence, I slept over at his place last weekend, after a night of partying, and the next morning he played this song.
He made the hilarious joke that this song is popular in Sitar Hero 
Anyway, the song really hit me at that moment and I've been having it on repeat this last week.
Death In Vegas is a psychedelic rock and electronic duo from London.
The singer you hear in this song is Hope Sandoval from Mazzy Star.
Apart from the aforementioned sitar, this song has lots of violins.
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David O'Neil wrote: Jane Siberry - It Can't Rain All The Time
You shared that one before.
Great track, I haven't seen The Crow though.David O'Neil wrote: another great song
Great one indeed!
Best of the century? Nah...  David O'Neil wrote: Agnes Obel - Familiar, & Dark Soundtrack Playlist
Also a good one 
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I like the middle part of the track Sander. My music for today includes some non-vocal selections by Leo Kottke - try Three/Quarter North, Wonderland by Night, or Twilight Time if you're not familiar with his 12 string guitar music. Very peaceful!
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Craig Robbins wrote: Leo Kottke
A great player indeed! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Craig Robbins wrote: Very peaceful!
Yes it is!
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Suspiciously also no mention of whether that size is in terms of how much "classical space" it would take to represent the state of one of those discs (exponentially more classical bits than there are qubits in that disc), or in terms of how much "classical data" could be reliably stored on that disc (not exponentially more data than there are qubits in that disc, you can blame Holevo's theorem).
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I've been reading about quantum computing for years now, but as I understand it can take around two more decades before we can have one in our homes.
It makes news like this slightly less exciting.
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Not only that, but they have been saying "we'll have clean, safe fusion power in common use in twenty years" every decade since what? 1960? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: "we'll have clean, safe fusion power in common use in twenty years" every decade since what? 1960?
Since the 1950s. It turned out that making an H-bomb was a lot easier than making a controlled thermonuclear reactor. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Perhaps the article link below will be of some interest to you. The author seems to authoritatively demolish ITAR's claims. I conclude ITER is a world class scam perhaps even many orders of magnitude greater than Theranos. Perhaps the small scale privately funded fusion based on kinetic impact will succeed or perhaps laser pellet fusion. As for quantum computers I of course know nothing of the technology but IBM or is it Google I forgot or maybe both plans to roll out a one-thousand qubit machine soon so things are moving along so I am an optimist.
ITER is a showcase ... for the drawbacks of fusion energy - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists[^]
PS I am surprised I have not seen this chestnut here of which I only learned today i.e. to wit in particular "A Programmer is a device which transforms coffee into code."
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Microsoft will manage to fill the disc with Windows 12.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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