Current mood:	aggravated
Entry tags:	books, puzzles

My sister gave our niece the book Unbored for her eleventh birthday this year. I thought it looked so good that I borrowed it for the library for my own reading. It's an old-fashioned "things to make and do" book with updated ideas as well as the old traditional ideas. I'm not sure why Mark Frauenfelder, who wrote the introduction, says it's the only book of its kind - I like it precisely because it's a juicy new example of the books I loved as a kid.

I only got as far as the introduction, because there was a cypher at the bottom of the page, and well, I'm not made of stone. I fell into the rabbit hole. Half an hour later I emerged, swearing: (solution follows behind cut, along with a very special message for Mark Frauenfelder:




It was fucking hard work writing that cypher out neatly enough that I could read my own writing. >:(

This is not going to stop me from dropping a postcard in the mail tomorrow with a cyphered message for Niece.

Antidote for anyone who needs it after that.