[2002-09-15]
New & Interesting ways to rape customers, #145:
Fun with power supplies
This one comes from CompUSA; sell 600W power supplies with what is
clearly not enough hard drive plugs, hence forcing customers to buy at
least two splitters.
[2002-09-09]
In the spirit of my continuing obsession with stupidly hard
Rubiks-cube-alike puzzles, I've bought one of each of:
http://icculus.org/~chunky/images/random/puzzles/bandaged-cube-t-l.jpghttp://icculus.org/~chunky/images/random/puzzles/master-cube-n-l.jpghttp://icculus.org/~chunky/images/random/puzzles/profcube-yellow-l.jpghttp://icculus.org/~chunky/images/random/puzzles/skewb-ultimate1-l.jpghttp://icculus.org/~chunky/images/random/puzzles/square1-l.jpgThe professor's cube and the master cube aren't really a problem. I can
solve both of those already, I "just want one".
The bandage cube and the ultimate skewb. They're a little harder. The
Square-1 hasn't arrived yet.
I also still have my one of these:
http://icculus.org/~chunky/images/random/puzzles/impossib-l.jpgwhich Cordy bought me a while ago [Yay!]. It, too, is non-trivial but
I can now solve it without too much hassle.
Damn, these puppies are hard. Mmmmmm. By the way: Peter's black hole;
bonus points come from being able to do the third solution [not mentioned
anyplace on the website] where instead of having all silver stars,
or all black hole, you have each face as all stars of the same color
[there's a bunch of colors there other than silver & black]
[note: old plan entries are all avilable at
http://icculus.org/~chunky/oldplan]