Ditty Bops ; parents visiting

Who's going to the Ditty Bops show on September 2? How much are the tickets?

I'm looking for tickets for myself, and probably my parents too (they'd probably prefer non-standing spaces). My parents will be visiting me from Brazil, Sunday through Wednesday, before continuing their trip to Las Vegas and Mexico City.

puzzle

The story of how I lost my sandals is the story of Romeo & Juliet. Decipher.

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UPDATE: chrisamaphone and infryq have the right idea. But it's not clear that they actually understand how I lost my sandals.

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Pun, due to letters_in_sand (personal communication): "They were meant to be together. They were solemates."

Java

I'm writing code to answer multiple-choice SAT analogy questions.

A design issue:

Where to put the givenAnswer:
* inside the AnalogyQuestion object
* outside, using some kind of Hash < AnalogyQuestion,int >

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I think the class Hash < A,B > should have an argmax() method, returning the A for which B is maximum, whenever B has a Comparator. Or more generally, we should have an argmax() function to which you pass the list and a closure specifying how to get the property that is being compared.

I haven't been able to find a nice solution. This is annoying.