Categories: randomness, future-plans
Tags: Rubik's Cube, Ambitions, Silliness
Date: 23 August 2010 13:44:53
There is an article in this week's New Scientist that says that some mathematicians, harnessing the power of Google and symmetries, have shown that any arrangement of a Rubik's cube can be completed in twenty moves or under. Apparently, "God couldn't do it faster". I find this sickening as solving mine even the once has still eluded me!
Owning and finishing a Rubik's Cube is one of the ten ambitions I have in life, of varying degrees of sensibleness (and in no particular order), some of which go back to childhood:
1) Have tea at the Ritz
2) Talk philosophy with the Speaking Clock over a glass of wine
3) Own and finish a Rubik's Cube
4) Ride the London Eye and streak at the top of the circle
5) Get to the top of the Eiffel Tower without a nose bleed
6) Go paragliding without an instructor
7) Have tea on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament
8 ) Meet k.d. lang and give her a kiss
9) Have a book (either fiction or serious science) published
10) Own enough ties to have one for every day of the year
One of these is impossible. I have done two of them. Guess which...