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#WhenTaken #222 (06.10.2024)

I scored 722/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 3072 km - 🗓️ 43 yrs - ⚡ 39 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 654.8 metres - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 457 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 183 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 4373 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 123 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 588 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 180 / 200

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Puzzle #483
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Wordle 1,205 5/6

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#WhenTaken #221 (05.10.2024)

I scored 708/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 2857 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 132 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 935 km - 🗓️ 42 yrs - ⚡ 72 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 61.8 metres - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 1896 km - 🗓️ 20 yrs - ⚡ 107 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 380.7 metres - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200

It’s not an entire show, but your opening sentence perfectly describes the premise of one episode of the original The Twilight Zone, “Five Characters In Search Of An Exit” (S3.E14, for anyone who wants to look it up). The synopsis from IMDB:

An Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.

The mounting tension and mystery of this short story made a lasting impression on a very young me that remained long after I’d forgotten how the episode ends, with its inevitable TZ twist.

Years ago I bought the entire show-run on DVD. I remembered only scattered images and the leftover feeling of unease from this episode, little more than is outlined in the synopsis above, and as I had forgotten its overall story, I was looking forward to seeing it as if anew. I didn’t even know the name of the episode, and avoided looking up any information beforehand – even so much as where it occurred in the order of episodes – so that as I made my way through the show’s 5-year run I could come upon it unsuspecting, to savour its re-discovery spoiler-free.

Nor I, on my in-Canada account. Desktop access only; I don’t have the Paypal app installed on my phone.

The article’s image shows, under Manage your privacy settings, the options:

• Permissions you’ve given

• Interest-based marketing (which is the option pertinent to this issue)

  • Interest-based marketing on PayPal
  • Interest-based marketing in your other accounts

• Blocked contacts

  But my account’s options are:

• Permissions you’ve given

• Manage your cookies

  • Marketing
  • Performance
  • Functional
  • Essential

• Blocked contacts

Possibly the Marketing checkbox is the Canadian version of this? I’ve got that checkbox turned off.

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Wordle 1,202 3/6

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Wordle 1,201 4/6

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Homemade pesto spooned into a plastic film-lined ice cube tray. Once frozen, pop out the cubes, wrap each tightly and store in a freezer bag or – better still – vacuum seal them.

I don’t have a mechanical vacuum sealer; I usually zip-bag them and suck out as much air as possible with a straw.

Even not vacuumed, they seem to last forever as long as they’re not allowed to dry out. The high olive oil content may account for that.

Each cube does me enough for two pasta servings.

Wordle 1,200 5/6

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Connections
Puzzle #478
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Wordle 1,199 4/6

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I’m of same mind. Taking clues from architecture, wardrobe, vehicles, flora, apparent climate, even in quality of the image are what make this game fun and interesting to me.

It doesn’t hurt when the image contains the name of the place in big bold letters, front and center!

>2️⃣ 📍 11048 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 99 / 200

2️⃣ 📍 11045 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 98 / 200

Neat, I think you and I guessed almost exactly the same time&place for this one. :)

#WhenTaken #215 (29.09.2024)

I scored 845/1000 🎉

1️⃣ 📍 175 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 191 / 200
2️⃣ 📍 11045 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 98 / 200
3️⃣ 📍 110.1 metres - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200
4️⃣ 📍 2 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 196 / 200
5️⃣ 📍 531.0 metres - 🗓️ 18 yrs - ⚡ 161 / 200

Connections
Puzzle #476
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Wordle 1,198 5/6

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Wordle 1,197 4/6

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