What's New?
NOTE:
We have moved from AT&T to SBC on October 13, 2003
...and will probaly move again!
Coming soon for 2008
- Reviews of the following BinaryArts
(a.k.a. ThinkFun) solitare games:
- Brick by Brick (single, double and enamel set)
- Block by Block / Shape by Shape / Square by Square
- RushHour / Railroad RushHour / Safari RushHour
- Stormy Seas / Roadside Rescue / Tipover
- Hoppers / Leaping Lizards / Flip It / Lunar Lockout
- Metro/ GridWorks / Tangrams / Scrambled Eggs
- MATHEMATICA: Solutions to...
- CrossTeaser
- FlipSide
- ...once I figure out how to actually solve them!
- LINKS:
- I really gotta do some spring-cleaning here...
about half of the links have been dead since
the turn of the century.
- ON HOLD:
- Hoberman Brain Twist, a one-day wonder..
The Brain Twist is a relatively simple puzzle to solve.
It's the mechanics of the notation that makes it
difficult to explain.
- HX-20's memory map for the first 2624 bytes of RAM.
Maybe, with a capital 'M'; but for now here's a neat trick...
While in BASIC mode, type:
MEMSET = &HB00 [return]
POKE &H11E, &HA [return]
POKE &H11F, &H40 [return]
Now press:
[GRPH] 0, [GRPH] 1, ... [GRPH] 9
[CTRL] 0, [CTRL] 1, ... [CTRL] 9
to view "Asian" charcters!?
2007
2006
2005
2004
- SOMA CUBE:
BCSolve082.zip
Written in C++ by Bruce Cropley, this program can solve
single and double SOMA sets within a fraction of a second,
along with SOMA+ and BEDLAM figures.
- LINKS:
Somatic
Capable of solving any polyomino animal up to 64 cubelets,
regardless of size or number of the animal components.
By Marc Moerig
Late 2003
Fall 2003
Summer 2003
Spring 2003
Early 2003
Late 2002 (Merry Christmas!)
Fall 2002
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
Luminations
- by Rick Nungester (solution & analysis).
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
Nemesis Factor
- by Rick Nungester (HTML & text formats).
If the name sounds familiar, that is because Rick Nungester is the brother of Bob Nungester, author of the Windows Soma Solver elsewhere on my site. Currently, the Nungester brothers have donated about 2 meg of material to my site, and are welcome to occupy that section for as long as this site exists.
- HX-20:
ASCII Character Conversion Chart
Summer 2002
Spring 2002
Early 2002 (Happy New Year?)
- SOMA CUBE: SOMA16.ZIP
Bob Nungester has just upgraded his Windows Soma Program.
- RECIPES:
December 2001
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
Rubik's Tangle
A systematic type puzzle with a single solution
November 2001
October 2001
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
Square 1
...a Rubik's Cube on Acid.
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
Pyramorphix
- 10/31: National "Mother-in-Law" day.
Don't forget to send a card!
August 2001
- 8/1/01: Fixed the brakes again.
- MATHEMATICA:
Another "15" Puzzle
A 6th-grade approach
- LINKS:
Jaap's Puzzle Page
One of the best sites on the web for solving the wide range of
Rubik-like puzzles, including Square 1, which I would have
never solved without Jaap's help. The site is high on text and
low on graphics; a virtual plus!
July 2001
- 7/2/01: Fixed the brakes.
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
Rubik's Magic I
..."Link the Rings".
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
Rubik's Magic II
..."Unlink the Rings".
June 2001
- MATHEMATICA:
How to solve...
The Professor's Cube
The Grand-daddy of 'em all, a 400K effort.
Also modified the solution of Rubik's Revenge for the Bottom-Edge section.
May 2001
- MISC: Vanity Plates
- continued.
- RECIPES: Hveder
by Thorleif Bungaard
- 5/26/01: Took down the Christmas tree.
April 2001
- RECIPES: Waikiki Meatballs
- 4/14/01: Went to Easter egg hunt, and showed those snotty
5-year-olds who's the real BOSS.
- 4/15/01: Taxes again.
March 2001
- MISC: Area 51
...we are not alone.
- 3/20/01: Found a quarter on the sidewalk. Bought some nachos.
- 3/25/01: Daylight Savings Time begins.
Forgot to set clocks again; spent one hour of Deja-Vu.
February 2001
- ALL MAIN PAGES: Easier navigation, downsized pix (byte-wise).
- MATHEMATICA: The Towers of Hanoi
... Out-of-the-box solution added.
- MATHEMATICA: The Brain
... Out-of-the-box solution added.
- 2/28/01: Went to work; drank some coffee, told a few jokes.
January 2001
December 2000
- SOMA CUBE: Added 36 structures
...bringing the grand total up to 1949
(Walls & Wells, figure set #40).
November 2000
October 2000
- 10/13/00: Halloween is just around the corner.
Must stock up on needles and razor blades.
- 10/29/00: Daylight Savings Time ends. Forgot to set the clocks back.
Spent all day wandering aimlessly one hour into the future.
September 2000
- 9/4/00: Labor Day. Raked the leaves, drank some beer.
- 9/18/00: Two weeks after Labor Day.
Raked more leaves, drank more beer.
August 2000
- LINKS: Mathematrix
A nice sample of recreational mathematics.
One end of the spectrum.
- LINKS:
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
The most comprehensive hard-core mathematics site on the web.
The other end of the spectrum.
- 8/7/00: Took the dog for a walk.
- MIDI FILES:
Pictures at an Exhibition
Robert Finley's amazing rendition of the Mussorgski masterpiece.
Be prepared to be stunned in total awe, as this MIDI version ranks
many notches above any classical recording on CD.
- LINKS:
www.DaveDonaghue.com
The definitive Dave Donaghue site.
July 2000
- RECIPES:
Boiled Live Lobster
A very cruel recipe.
- 7/03/00: Updated the "What's New" page to include the
Boiled Live Lobster recipe.
- MISC:
Basic Clarinet Fingering Chart
Totally free of plagurism! I'm sorry, but unless you can actually
find the guy who INVENTED the clarinet, this chart in NO WAY infringes on
any copywrite. However, I DO use the LeBlanc method of labeling the keys,
only because I own one of their by-products. Noblet clarinets rule!
- MISC:
Lincoln Cents / Quantites Minted
A cheezy guide to coin collecting. Throw that Red Book away!
- MISC: Added more trivia.
- 7/22/00: Washed the car; drank some beer.
- 7/23/00: Changed lightbulb; drank some beer.
- LINKS: Stinkymeat
More disgusting, vile and nauseating than ROTTEN DOT COM.
A book-mark MUST!
June 2000
- LINKS:
Great Mobile Homes of Missisippi
A masterpiece of wit and humor.
- 6/11/00: Changed flahlight batteries.
- RECIPES: Cardboard Pizza
A must for every bachelor apartment dweller, and the best that
$2.99 has to offer. This was my favorite staple in the early 80's
that I would reward myself with every Friday night.
- MISC: Work Place Ornaments
A view from my Cube.
- MATHEMATICA:
Instant Insanity
My first puzzle ever.
Not a hard puzzle, and not a fun puzzle... but still; a PUZZLE.
- SOMA CUBE:
What the World has to Offer
Had to update more DEAD GUYS on the list.
- 6/26/00: Birthday; stayed up 'til midnight
and watched my driver's license expire.
May 2000
- SOMA CUBE: SOMA15.ZIP
Bob Nungester created a Windows Soma Program in his
secret laboratory that can solve (or find impossible) regular,
split and partial figures in less than 1/8 second.
To solve DOUBLE-SET figures (yes, double-set figures),
downlown the upgrade, which also contains the latest
Single-Set Soma-Solving version.
- MISC: Frank Zappa:
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore
Here's how you can take all 6 volumes of your collection
and neatly fit them into nine 90-minutes cassettes.
- 5/9/00: Took the dog to the vet.
- LINKS: Robin's Web
A great retro-site. Guaranteed to keep Boomers and Tweeners
zoned out for hours like zombies.
- LINKS: Zenith Trans-Oceanic Page
A web-site dedicated to my favorite line of shortwave radios,
the pre-disco-erazoic Zenith Trans-Oceanic.
- 5/29/00: Mowed the lawn; drank some beer.
- MISC: Vanity Plates
You've seen them before, and they're still out there... vanity plates!
Most of them are moronic, like 2FAST4U. The rest are just plain retarded.
Everyone complains about money and taxes, but after the smoke clears,
a lot of people are still willing to shell out that extra 30 bucks to
DYMO label their car with some idiotic caption.
April 2000
March 2000
February 2000
January 2000
