{"id":228,"date":"2005-03-22T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iohelix.com\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-09-22T23:46:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T05:46:19","slug":"rubiks-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/rubiks-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"rubik&#8217;s cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guess what ?!? i solved a rubik&#8217;s cube the other day without looking at instructions or anything for the first time !! &nbsp;and did it several times, just to make sure that i could.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s crazy how easy the thing really is when you finally figure it out. when i started playing with a cube at my friend&#8217;s house, i had to look on the internet just to get the thing solved, and because i was reading instructions or using the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.t-online.de\/home\/kociemba\/cube.htm\">cube explorer<\/a>, i couldn&#8217;t look at the cube to see what the various moves were doing.<\/p>\n<p>but then i got the first face and the first row all figured out and had troubles with the second row (but i was pretty drunk when i was trying to do it, so don&#8217;t blame me). &nbsp;then &nbsp;i got the second row and it was pretty easy as well, once i figured that out, but the final row&#8230; &nbsp;man that one&#8217;s tough. so i looked online at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdparadise.com\/puzzles\/333\/solution\/\">rubik&#8217;s solution<\/a> and solved a <a href=\"http:\/\/rubiksim.sourceforge.net\/\">rubik&#8217;s simulator<\/a> on my computer (i don&#8217;t actually own a rubik&#8217;s cube) while looking at the instructions. i solved it a few times looking at the instructions, then turned them off and tried to solve it without looking. when i got to the end, i didn&#8217;t even realize that i did it until i was sitting there looking at the cube, wondering what move to make next, then noticing that all of the sides were solid. i even turned the cube over and over to make sure i hadn&#8217;t missed somthing, it seemed so unreal. so i did it again, and again. then i met a situation i hadn&#8217;t seen before and had to consult the instructions. but i&#8217;ve done it several times since then and feel pretty confident i can solve the cube any time i want now. which is dope.<\/p>\n<p>but now i need to learn how to solve the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superliminal.com\/cube\/cube.htm\"><acronym title=\"Four Dimension\">4d<\/acronym> magic cube<\/a>. &nbsp;i&#8217;ve solved up to five moves, but after that it gets all messy and i have no idea where to flip the thing.\u00a0it&#8217;s tough, it&#8217;s like a rubik&#8217;s cube on steriods.<\/p>\n<p>but i think the ultimate rubik&#8217;s solver is the<a href=\"http:\/\/jpbrown.i8.com\/cubesolver.html\"> LEGO rubik&#8217;s cube solver<\/a> built by j.p. brown ! &nbsp;man that has got to be the coolest thing on the planet ! &nbsp;and it actually works, too ! &nbsp;i&#8217;ve seen video of it working.<br \/>\nit brings together everything that is geek and puts it all in a nice neat package to exclaim to the world, &#8220;I AM GEEK !!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>it uses lego&#8217;s in cunjunction with computer code and function to solve a rubik&#8217;s cube, how much more geek do you need?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>guess what ?!? i solved a rubik&#8217;s cube the other day without looking at instructions or anything for the first time !! &nbsp;and did it several times, just to make sure that i could. it&#8217;s crazy how easy the thing really is when you finally figure it out. when i started playing with a cube &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/rubiks-cube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rubik&#8217;s cube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}