to help pass the time on the 7 hour drive to the yoopee kris’ newest obsession is the puzzle known as sudoku ( and yes, my favorite way to pass the time it to take photos while driving 🙂 ).

i must be living under a rather large rock because until a few weeks ago, i had never heard of the game which has apparently been all the rage for quite some time. and while the mathematics of sudoku is interesting ( who would have thought that an algorithm used in x-ray diffraction microscopy could be used to solve the puzzles? ) it probably would be best if i didn’t start given i had to check myself into puzzler rehab after a particularly brutal tetris bender years ago.

no sir, i am not going to download the sudoku macintosh dashboard widget or the sudoku susser and i am certainly not ever going to print out the self-described “horric” puzzles from the daily mail.