What do you like to do while listening when listening is the main point?

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Re: What do you like to do while listening when listening is the main point?

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:54 pm

Severine wrote:The problem with a Rubik's cube is that once you know how to solve them, they don't take very long. So you'd have to solve it, mess it up again, and so on. Maybe that'd work for you, but it'd start to feel pointless to me, at least compared to a puzzle where you're working toward one logical goal.


One can always use another method to solve it. 8-) In December 2011, I was listening to an audiobook. In order not to zone out, I grabbed my cube and decided to solve it in another way. Corners first. Orientation, then position (alg 1). Then, move edge pieces in a triangular pattern (alg 2, but I did it in either direction depending on which was the ”shortest way”). Just two algorithms.

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Re: What do you like to do while listening when listening is the main point?

Postby rdearman » Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:00 pm

Carry an umbrella when you hike. And then shove it into the spokes of annoying bikers as they pass by.
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Re: What do you like to do while listening when listening is the main point?

Postby Cainntear » Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:55 pm

rdearman wrote:Carry an umbrella when you hike. And then shove it into the spokes of annoying bikers as they pass by.

...because you'll have so the time you need to study languages when you are in prison .
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Re: What do you like to do while listening when listening is the main point?

Postby Khayyam » Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:10 am

Cainntear wrote:
rdearman wrote:Carry an umbrella when you hike. And then shove it into the spokes of annoying bikers as they pass by.

...because you'll have so the time you need to study languages when you are in prison .


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Re: What do you like to do while listening when listening is the main point?

Postby rdearman » Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:32 am

Cainntear wrote:
rdearman wrote:Carry an umbrella when you hike. And then shove it into the spokes of annoying bikers as they pass by.

...because you'll have so the time you need to study languages when you are in prison .

This is why you have to be careful around old people. Life imprisonment isn't much of a threat to us anymore.
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