[pgh-pm] [DoNotReply@Apress.com: Apress User Group Puzzler Promotion]

[Casey West]

We could win this.

Here's one idea. Get a large list of names (screen scrape?) and try to
figure out the combination of names that would most saturate the board.
So figure out the most compact board you can create with as few black
squares as possible.

We used to have a member that published crossword puzzles. Sadly she's
in New York now.

----- Forwarded message from Apress Newsletter <DoNotReply at Apress.com> -----

Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:23:07 -0800
Message-ID: <OWA1sxpTljBOh8s4KWi00002353 at mail.apress.com>
From: "Apress Newsletter" <DoNotReply at Apress.com>
To: <casey at geeknest.com>
Subject: Apress User Group Puzzler Promotion

Dear Apress User Group,

This May, Apress will award a SONY PLAYSTATION PORTABLE to one lucky
promotion winner!

How do you win? Apress has a fun puzzle for you to solve: the Apress User
Group Puzzler. And the catch is that you are going to create the puzzle.
(Please share this announcement with ALL registered members of your user
group.)

Here's how it works: The entire month of April, we're sponsoring a promotion
open to participation from all Apress registered user group members who
reside in the United States and Canada. The competition involves creating a
small crossword puzzle. By May 27, 2005, Apress will notify the chosen winner
by e-mail.

Please create a five-up/five-down crossword puzzle incorporating ten
different Apress and friends of ED author last names (no first names allowed;
last names only). You can easily create clever questions by browsing through
both of our websites, www.apress.com and www.friendsofed.com. When you're
ready to submit your puzzle, visit the Apress User Group Puzzler submission
page, http://www.apress.com/userGroups/crosswordpuzzle.html.

Here's a sample question: "A Yale graduate, and project manager for the
Microsoft Excel developer team, he 'blogs' his way to fame." (Answer:
Spolsky). See-it'll be fun to create your own Apress Puzzler!

Rules and other details: Participants must be 18 years of age or older. Only
one puzzle submission per person. Puzzles must be written in English.
Promotion is open to participation from all Apress registered user group
members who reside in the United States and Canada. Puzzles must be submitted
by April 30, 2005. By May 27, 2005, Apress will notify the chosen winner by
e-mail. 

Winner agrees to allow Apress to reproduce and display the winning puzzle.
Nonregistered user groups may first register at
http://www.apress.com/userGroups/ to become eligible to enter the Puzzler
promotion. 

Apress looks forward to reading all of your submissions! Good luck.

Janet Crosbie
Apress User Group Liaison
janet at apress.com
(510) 549-5930 (x 121)

----- End forwarded message -----


  Casey West

-- 
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
 -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science,
    1949