Posted on 01/14/2009 10:59:52 AM PST by LibWhacker
You know those guys who can solve a Rubik's cube in a matter of seconds? Well, Graham Parker is definitely not one of them.
After 26 years of trying, Parker finally managed to solve the Rubik's cube that confounded him. Now, you may be thinking that he only occasionally picked up the puzzle, slowing his progress—but the reality is that he obsessed over it day after day, night after night.
'I cannot tell you what a relief it was to finally solve it,' the 45-year-old from Portchester, Hampshire, said. 'It has driven me mad over the years – it felt like it had taken over my life. I have missed important events to stay in and solve it and I would lie awake at night thinking about it.
'I have had wrist and back problems from spending hours on it but it was all worth it. When I clicked that last bit into place and each face was a solid color, I wept.'
Seriously. His wife claimed that it was like three people were in their marriage. When she met him, he was already obsessed with the cube. And she still married him? What a saint.
Oh, and you know this is a record. A spokesman for the World Cube Association, said it was 'definitely the longest it has taken' to finish the cube. Now that is a true champion.
Solves the mystery of why his albums haven’t been as good as the ones he made in the late ‘70. Spending too much time on the cube. ;-P
I painted the sides new colors.
Yeah, I got the book too. It was a lot of fun to show my friends at school how I could solve it in about 30 seconds.
I let my garbage can figure it out.
I bought the book, practiced for a few nights, and then went about six months without having to buy a drink. The problem is that in Vermont there aren’t that many bars.
Stupid, waste of time, POS toy.
Now for his second project - returning the Republicans to the majority in Washington.
“Reminds me of the time it took me 18 months to put a puzzle together. I was so proud of myself because it says on the box “3 to 5 years”.”
I looked at an orange juice carton for four hours because it said concentrate.
I had a solution book. I would solve them for people at school for a quarter (free for the cute girls).
Take the stickers off a solved cube and put them on in random order. then it will never be solvable.
I did that. Of course, those creeps on the show "Incredible People" managed to solve them faster than I could take it apart and put it back together.
burn it
Translation: it frustrated the hell out of you and you're bitter towards people who were able to solve it.
Comments like this one strike me the same as those who suggest that SAT results are no indication of intelligence.
ML/NJ
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that. I am just saying there are a lot easier ways to get those colors lined up than actually solving the puzzle.
Cute; when my sister was in the hospital about 35 years ago for a brain operation I used to visit every day for about 10 days; I noticed a jigsaw puzzle on a large table in a state of play early on and made a point to check it each day while in the waiting room along with other patient’s family members.
Some would play, insert a piece and then leave as their visiting times ended.
This went on until the last day of my sister’s stay and, as we were leaving the hospital I stopped back in for one last look at the nearly completed puzzle.
There it lay, a picture at last with but one flaw — in the top right margin someone had taped a note: “Missing one piece.”
How fitting, I thought as my mother, my sister and I headed home and another attempt at this puzzle called life.
You asked for it. Said artist from the birth of New Wave;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2SkcC3TXc
I have one on my desk and I was just playing with it minutes prior to reading this thread.
Does this mean I am doomed for the next 26 years?
Took me less than 30 seconds. Ma...what does colorblind mean?
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