Dr Rubik provides a wake up call
Posted on June 17, 2008
Filed Under Daft stuff, Musings |
I recently purchased a Rubik’s cube. I bought it from Hamley’s in Stansted Airport and proceeded to tinker with it on the flight back to Edinburgh. I got some fairly bemused looks from my fellow passengers, many of whom looked as if they thought the plane was travelling so fast that they had gone back in time to the 1980’s. Like Superman did when Lois Lane got buried in mud and stuff in her car in the original Superman movie.
Other passengers were very interested and the bloke sitting next to me recounted his frustration with the puzzle as a child and we discussed the two well known methods of completing it. Namely :-
- Removing all the stickers and re-applying them in the correct order. Not a particular favourite of mine due to the general fiddlyness of the manoeuver.
- Breaking the thing up and reassembling all of the pieces in the correct order. The last piece was always a stinker to get back in but this was generally a more straightforward method.
Imagine my interest then when I saw that a new Rubiks Cube alarm clock had been produced.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/06/rubix_cube_alarm_clock_wo.html
The crazy thing about this is that to stop the alarm clock, you have to complete the cube, otherwise it will ring and ring. The main idea behind this is to force you to get out of bed rather than hit snooze. Therefore, so the theory goes, you will not be late for work, or that important appointment.
Thing is, I’ve not managed to complete it in thirty-odd years. At that rate, I wouldn’t get to work until 2 years after I had retired. Maybe that’s not a bad thing actually.
Comments
One Response to “Dr Rubik provides a wake up call”
Leave a Reply
Posts
Ahhhhh… The good old Rubik’s cube! I had one as a teenager and learned how to solve it from a book that was doing the rounds at the time. I learned the formulae and never failed to complete it. But, that seemed like cheating somehow. I still vaguely remember bits of it, like -R, +L, all that stuff …