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20100120

a grid fixes it

Stumbled upon this today.  I always loved doing these as a kid.

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors standing in a row, the first house being the leftmost house.  In each house lives a man of a different nationality. The owners drink a certain type of beverage, use a certain kind of transportation, and keep a certain pet.  No owners have the same pet, use the same method of transportation, or drink the same beverage.

The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps a dog as a pet.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green homeowner drinks coffee.
The person who rides a bike rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house drives a car.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who rides a scooter lives next to the one who keeps a cat.
The man who keeps the snake lives next to the man who drives the car.
The owner who walks drinks beer.
The German takes the train.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who uses the scooter has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the fish?

20100111

Balkans Blitz Facts

It's so good to be back home!  I'll do a more detailed update on everything soon, but for now, some numbers.

883 Photos taken.

Sleeping Location Stats:
2 nights at airports
2 nights on a ferry
4 nights on trains
2 nights at hostels
1 night at Nathaniel's parents' home
2 nights at hotels while travelling with N's parents

Traveled in 4 airplanes, 12 trains, 2 buses, 1 ferry, and 1 car (excluding the 2 trains to/from SFO).

Traveled through 9 countries, though only really visited 8 of them.

Entered and exited the EU 3 times.

Used 5 currencies.

Read 794/1069 pages of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

There are probably many more enumerable things from the trip, and even more that are uncountable.