From alan@parsley.lcs.mit.edu Wed Aug 25 21:13:44 1993 Return-Path: Received: from parsley.lcs.mit.edu by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AB21991; Wed, 25 Aug 93 21:13:44 EDT Received: by parsley.lcs.mit.edu id AA04367; Wed, 25 Aug 93 21:12:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 21:12:55 -0400 Message-Id: <25Aug1993.204955.Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU> From: Alan Bawden Sender: Alan@lcs.mit.edu To: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Tools lost in the mists of time... Despite being your moderator for the past 13 years, it has been quite a while since I actually played with a cube (of any order). Until last weekend, that is, when I picked up a 5x5x5 cube that someone had loaned me quite some time ago. Imagine my surprise to discover that I had in fact forgotten one of the tools I needed to solve even a 3x3x3! In particular my tool for inverting two edge cubies in place in a 3x3x3 was completely gone. It didn't take me long to develop a replacement, but I'm certain that it is nothing like what I was using years ago. I'm amazed -- there was a time when I thought I could never forget any of those tools. And by the way, it was a lot of fun to re-learn the 3x3x3 and then go on to solve the 5x5x5 -- if anyone else out there has, like me, been neglecting their cube hacking for some years, go pick up your cube again, you may be pleasantly surprised. - Alan (aka Cube-Lovers-Request) -- Alan Bawden Alan@LCS.MIT.EDU MIT Room NE43-538 (617) 253-7328 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 06BF9EB8FC4CFC24DC75BDAE3BB25C4B