Puzzle Description:

QR Code - scan to see my favorite puzzle site.

#1: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Mar 22, 2011 [SPOILER]

not sure if anyone has done this before...if so, i didn't see it. anyway, it's a little tricky getting a QR code to have a unique solution, solvable AND represent meaningful information. in this case, that is why there is no "www." on the URL...and why it does not match exactly what you will find if you generate the default QR for the URL that actually is represented. sometimes you have to be a little sneaky.

I swear I saw this here before, but now I can't remember where. It was maybe three-six months ago. (Adam?)

Unfortunately, I do not have a smart phone, so I will have to wait for others to spoil this for me. :)

or i could just spoil it for you :)
it will just take you to "http://webpbn.com";.

The one that was here before might have been mine. I posted basically this QR code, got a really snide reply that it had been done before a few times, and took it down in a fit of mortified embarrassment. I don't know where those earlier versions of it might actually be, though - they'd be quite old by now.

There's a bit of trickiness to getting a QR that solves uniquely as a PBN - it's rather amusing that this site actually has a URL that can be coaxed into it.

jason, i find that difficult to believe. you are trying to tell me that there are people in this world with nothing better to do than deride well-meaning contributors to a site dedicated to a leisure activity? it would take an exceptional insecurity coupled with a lack of any practical ability to need THAT as the basis for an over-compensating arrogance. can you even imagine the amount of time such a person would have to dedicate to maintaining a personal database of past puzzles just to feel an ever-dwindling grin as they cling so desperately to their only source of superiority. such a sad superiority. such a hollow portrait you paint. it's just hard to believe you, jason. sorry.

I, for one, completely believe you Jason. :-)
And just because Liz asked for it, here you go: See puzzles # 10594, 10618, and 12963 (for starters). But unlike how David suggests that "such a person" does it out of ill will, I occasionally post similarly themed puzzles as a guide for other users who may wish to solve them, as there is no way to search by theme.

Jason is the one who mentioned that the response he got was a "really snide reply", which must mean that nobody here was talking about you since you never intend ill will. But since you rather defensively brought you up, I am more than happy to take your assertion at face value. No need to go digging up old comment threads to witness your guiding spirit. "Such a person" could learn a lot from you.

Ignoring all the vitriol...

I was slogging through the puzzle, trying to figure out what the heck it was, when my 9-year-old son walked into the room and said, "That's the thing you scan with your phone." I guess I just needed a fresh set of eyes!

i didnt know what this was since i dont have a smart phone
mine is apparently a dumb phone
haha

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