General

In May 2005, the Greek Panagiotis Verdes constructed a 6×6×6 Rubik’s Cube. and on May 23 2006, Frank Morris, a world champion Rubik’s Cube solver, tested this version. He had previously solved the 3×3×3 in 15 seconds, the 4×4×4 in 1 minute and 10 seconds, and the 5×5×5 in 1 minute and 46.1 seconds. The 6×6×6 took him 5 minutes and 37 seconds to solve. Morris himself thanked the inventor for making it and purportedly stated that the bigger the Cube is, the greater the pleasure. In July 2006, Mr. Verdes successfully constructed the 7x7x7 cube, and on October 27 2006, a video of Frank Morris testing the cube was released. Morris solved the puzzle in 6 minutes and 29.31 seconds. Videos of these tests can be viewed at http://www.olympicube.com/.

In 1994, Melinda Green, Don Hatch, and Jay Berkenilt created a model of a 3×3×3×3 four-dimensional analogue of a Rubik’s Cube in Java, called the MagicCube4D. Having more possible states than there are atoms in the universe, only 55 people have solved it as of January 2007. In 2006, Roice Nelson and Charlie Nevill created a 3×3×3×3×3 five-dimensional model. As of January 2007, it has been solved by only 6 people.

Here is a good video of the 7×7.
http://www.olympicube.com/video/7×7.html

If you read a lot then you will probably like this. It is called the Book Mate. And it holds your book open so you can hold it with one hand and the pages stay open. Its great for reading in the bed and I’ve been using it to read while I’m on the workout bike. I’m going to be ordering the II and III. I ordered the I along with the Book Light. And the best part of it is it is only they are only $10.50 for the regular paperback size. Click here to check out and order a Book Mate! Don’t worry, there are a bunch of colors other than the paisley one. I got just a solid black one.

I saw King Kong last night with a group of friends. I figured it would be a good movie to see in the theatre with the effects and all. Little did I know it was a 3 HOUR movie. That would have been fine if it wasn’t long and dragged out. It could have been a 1 1/2 hour movie. The effects were really cool but even that wasn’t enough to keep me interested throughout the movie. Some things were just way unrealistic…yes I know it was a movie about a giant gorilla but other things can still be realistic. Like when Kong snatched the girl who is tied up, the rope just pops and she looks like a rag doll, that would have totally ripped her arms off. Then right after that, he started shaking her around in his hand for about 10 minutes of the movie…there went her neck but not in this movie. There’s parts where a few people are falling at least 50 feet down and get up like nothing happened. I would suggest waiting for the DVD to come out that way if you fall asleep, you can finish it later if you feel like. The only thing stopping me from going to sleep was that I didn’t want to be snoring in the middle of the theatre. Good thing is that I only paid $5 for the discount tickets.

Olivier and I had our first anual Working Project Christmas Party. Instead of sending out cakes or something to our clients we thought it would be better to have a party where we could meet everyone. I think it turned out good and was pretty fun. We had it at Paymon’s Hookah Lounge. We maintain their website actually. You can see pictures from the party by clicking here.

My old site was a bit much and I wanted something simpler. So I found Word Press and installed it and seems to be working out perfectly.