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Hey there. I'm trying to use database software to help automate some budget tasks. My previous experience with database software was in the 1980s, when I developed programs using an MSDOS version of dBASE. However, database freeware these days all seem to be menu driven, and the newer vocabulary...

Interesting technology: Shape-shifting metal "robot". Scientists claim sea cucumbers as their motivation, but I have doubts that's completely true (think 'Terminator' movies). :) Short YouTube video \;

ITIRTC ? ;) \;

From a site where Denis used to find these things: For each numbered diagram, find a common phrase, place or thing. More than one answer may be possible. :) \;

From a site where Denis used to find these things: For each numbered diagram, find a common phrase, place or thing. More than one answer may be possible. :) \;

Teacher: How do we write 1/2 as a percent? Subhotosh: 50 Me: 50% :P By the way, Subbo, I AM RIGHT 99% of the time. (The other 2% is when I'm doing math.) \;

From a site where Denis used to find these things: For each numbered diagram, find a common phrase, place or thing. More than one answer may be possible. :) \;

In each puzzle below, we've strung together a series of four words in a specific category, removed one letter from each word, and then closed up the spaces. The letters we removed, in order, spell one other item in that category. For example: E R C U R Y S T U R N E A T H V E N U is missing M...

From a site where Denis used to find these things: For each numbered diagram, find a common phrase, place or thing. More than one answer may be possible. \;

Find a nine-digit number containing no zero or repeated digit such that removing the rightmost digits – one digit at a time – results in remaining numbers that are divisible in turn by 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. For example, 921654387 almost works, but removing the rightmost digit does not...

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Hiroimono is a traditional Japanese puzzle. The name means “picking something up.” Beginning with the black stone marked 1, you must pick up all of the white stones. The conditions: You may move horizontally or vertically only. When you reach a stone, you must pick it up. You may change...

From a site where Denis used to find these things: For each numbered diagram, find a common phrase, place or thing. More than one answer may be possible. \;

A chess knight sits on an infinite chessboard. If the knight cannot revisit a square previously occupied, then how can one trap it in as few moves as possible? :) \;

I'm pretty sure most of these have likely been done already by others (#9 was inspired recently by the Big Beach Banana), yet I think I've come up with a couple originals. :) Each diagram represents a common phrase, place or thing. \;

From a site where Denis used to find these things: For each numbered diagram, find a common phrase, place or thing. More than one answer may be possible.

Write a four-letter computer command used to negate an action. In front of that, write a six-letter verb that means “to calm or bring relief.” At the far right, add the letters that are abbreviations for the temperature scales in which H2O freezes at 0° and 32°, respectively, and then add four...

Rearrange the letters in the phrase TOWELS OFF to form a pair of antonyms. One of the antonyms is a three-letter word; the other is a two-word phrase with enumeration (4 2). ? \;

I just checked the wall clock and noticed that one-fifth of the time that has passed since noon is equal to one-eleventh of the time to come until noon again. What time is? ? \;

Use the same set of four consonants (in a different order each time) to fill in the blanks to form six uncapitalized English words. 1. D I S _ _ A _ E _ U L 2. _ _ A _ K I N _ 3. _ E N T _ I _ U _ E 4. S T A _ E _ _ A _ T 5. _ O N _ I _ U _ E 6. P _ O _ L I _ A _ Y ? \;