A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 14

I’m never terribly fond of this generational divide argument. Those kids in the picture would have loved to play with the toys the kids in the living room are playing with. I know this can also just be taken as showing the change of technology with time, but it inevitably leads to criticism of how […]

Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 2

While I was doing this puzzle, I kept trying to figure out if this was supposed to be the outskirts of Paris or if that metal structure that looks like the Eiffel Tower is something else. Given that yesterday’s puzzle had a little bit of German to signify Germany, I’m going to take a guess […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 13

You can just barely see the party in the image. I had to look closer. The penthouse looks more like a greenhouse. I love that penthouse because of the views it has and completely uninterrupted by walls. Think about what you could see if the buildings weren’t there. Still, I think that would be a […]

Michael Storring’s 12 Days of Christmas, day 1

I’ve been waiting to get to start this calendar from Galison. The brand is relatively new to me. I’ve never really found images from the brand that have been to my taste until recently. This was the first advent calendar that I got this year. The New Yorker one was second even though it was […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 12

It’s been a busy day around here and I only got to the puzzle for today in the evening. For as busy as the day has been with errands and random tasks, I appreciated the simplicity of the image. I just set something on the computer to play in the background and started working on […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, days 10 and 11

I missed posting yesterday’s puzzle. I did it but with work, it slipped my mind completely. Honestly, I was just happy to have it be the end of my week and have a couple of days off to take care of things I needed to do. Yesterday’s puzzle was a fun little challenge. There’s not […]

New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 9

This one looks so different from post offices today, at least the post offices that I’m familiar with. We have PO boxes at our main one, but there are no decorations for the holidays other than ads for holiday shipping. Perhaps this sort of decorating happens at smaller post offices. Still, I like the simplicity […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, day 8

This one is the oldest so far. It’s from 1939. I can’t say that I noticed anything different about the image while I was working on it. The image didn’t stand out right away as being old, but looking at it more, you can see how the fashion is older. There’s a lot more long […]

A New Yorker Cover a Day puzzle, day 7

I enjoyed the little bit of challenge in this puzzle. It’s not a particularly difficult image, but the lack of color meant it was down to shades of gray and the little smatterings of white once you get the title and the oval frame done. I’m certain that this wouldn’t happen in most apartments today, […]

A new yorker Cover a Day Puzzle, Day 6

The whole time I was working on this puzzle, I was drawn to the sky and the trees. The scenery reminded me of those days when it’s dark and overcast and you know that snow is coming. It’s been sunny here, which is nice, but there’s just something fun about the dark clouds that signal […]