On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:38 AM, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rubik's Cube is a lot easier if you just peel all the stickers off > before you start. My middle daughter (who just started college fer gawd's sake!) was around 2 1/2 or 3 when the Rubik's Cube craze hit our part of the world. We had several of them around the house and we told her that the idea was to get each side to be all the same colour. You see where I'm going here, right? One afternoon, with great pride, she showed my then-wife and me her progress: she'd manipulated things so that almost two sides were completely the same colour. I worked on one for days and days to get maybe one and a half solid sides; we thought she must be some sort of a genius, a child prodigy, ~something~! We got busy calling Harvard, Yale and Oxford seeking her early admission, lining her up on the Tonight Show and Merv Griffin, but before any of them got back to us, we spied her (I think it was a day later), pulling stickers off and replacing them in the appropriate places. She really wasn't cheating, we just never explained it to her. Hey, she was showing real problem-solving skills, eh? Oh well, we came back to reality with a thud. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
