On Sat, 20 Nov 2021, The Free Thinker wrote:

QBPGBE

Score!

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On Sat, 20 Nov 2021, The Free Thinker wrote:

ZRPUNAVP

Bullsye!

Though actually the implement of the previous profession
is used by ZRPUNAVPs as well.

TIL

I'd be worried if a QBPGBE came at me with one of these though.

Hahaha.

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, The Free Thinker wrote:

I was pretty sure this is a chest X-Ray being viewed.

Yes it is.

But after running the checksums for RADIOLOGIST, ORTHOPEDIST, and PATHOLOGIST, now I'm not so sure.

The actual intended answer is "RADIOLOGIST". Letter usage is:

O I J E N L D P H X G I M R V T W O S Q K A
* * * * * * * * * * *

("ORTHOPEDIST" and "PATHOLOGIST" can't be assembled from the given
alphabet chips; not enough `T`)

Sorry for the bad checksum. That is indeed my fault.

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xwindows <xwindows@tilde.club> wrote:

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, The Free Thinker wrote:

I was pretty sure this is a chest X-Ray being viewed.

Yes it is.

A nicely drawn skeleton then anyway, I definately couldn't think
of what else it would be.

But after running the checksums for RADIOLOGIST, ORTHOPEDIST, and
PATHOLOGIST, now I'm not so sure.

The actual intended answer is "RADIOLOGIST". Letter usage is:

O I J E N L D P H X G I M R V T W O S Q K A
* * * * * * * * * * *

("ORTHOPEDIST" and "PATHOLOGIST" can't be assembled from the given
alphabet chips; not enough `T`)

Oh yes, I'm always being lazy and not deleting the letters as I use
them.

Sorry for the bad checksum. That is indeed my fault.

Oh well it got me thinking, and paying extra attention every time
an x-ray appeared on TV. :)

I've got an x-ray machine in the cupboard actually, just in case
I feel the pull towards some amateur radiology one day (not on
anything living, I reasssure you). It's one of the more
interesting things that I've inherited from grandparents besides
the old padlock from earlier.
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

FVATRE

That's right! (*Audience applause*)

I like the mic cable in your drawing.

Thank you. (*Bows*)

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On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

PBBX

Ah, delicious... Just the right taste! (and right answer).

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On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

ONXRE

Yep! I'm quite proud of this depiction of a doughnut, bread, and brownies.

Be the breads with you,
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

I thought that might be another typewriter at first

Now I couldn't unsee that...

but I guess it's one of those meat slicing machines.

Your guess does make sense, though that wasn't what I intended
to make it look: I was actually trying to depict a big cleaver
(handle on the right) chopping a chunk of chicken hips?????
on a large and thick rectangle chopping block.

(I'm actually more familiar with circular chopping blocks,
especially wooden one, but it would be quite a chore to draw)

OHGPURE

Your answer is correct nonetheless.

Chop chop,
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2022, The Free Thinker wrote:

RKRPHGVBARE

Yep!

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On Fri, 19 Dec 2025, ant wrote:

pnegbtencure

Correct!

As a child, I loved pretending to be one.
What a shame that I have not preserved the fruit of my work in this vein.

On that note, several years ago I used to be an amateur one,
on that one well-known global collaborative project of this sort;
and I was responsible of very-detailed in-person survey effort
with sub-4 meter charting [1] of various local areas near my residence
or I visited.

I only left that project as a contributor because of corporate capture;
which led to them allowing companies to make wholesale destructive changes
to the data of my local area merely because they "saw it that way"
from aerial photographs; and I would have to re-visit the field to audit individual suspect data point and revert *each* of them manually to fix;
all unpaid.

This doesn't even count the fact that they removed the old Flash-based
editing interface that I preferred to use (leaving new "modern" one
that make my setup ground to a near-halt every time I lauched it),
replaced the contributors' discussion palor with JavaS'creep-infected abomination, as well as removing support for any browsers
but latest-and-worst ones on their main interface;
requiring me to summon the 128-tailed Firefox just to view it
(including the data/area I have personally contributed) as a _user_.

It incense me every time I have to visit their site today.

Grumbly yours,
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[1] Detailed to the point that someone could _walk_ there with a physical
printout, then count the alleyways, turns, shophouses he's supposed
to walk pass, and reach the correct target place he intended to visit;
without having to use any cellular/satellite-based aid.
I made sure of that, because I navigate my city in a low-tech way too.

[2] I charted all of them _exhaustively_; including personally going
into each shop to ask for contact and misc info like opening time.
That's what I call "survey".
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