Journal Entry for Thursday, July 27, 2000

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[12:08 PM EDT - Humid.]

Boy is it humid out there. I don't think we've had weather this warm and humid since.. spring! *wipes brow* *turns on air conditioning*

Okay, let's see what's going on in the world today..

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[12:13 PM EDT - Tiffi update.]

Yup, so it seems as Tiffi got around to updating her page, with a little comment about Sparky's departure from the web journal game. Err.. KGL also has another (cryptic) update up. Man, that kid's gonna kill herself one of these days!

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[4:08 PM EDT - Resume.]

I've been updating my CV and resume and have started looking for jobs. I have no idea what I want to do unfortunately. Actually, I wouldn't mind working up in Alert or on Hibernia for a little while. I think that would be cool.

Any of you guys have any suggestions?

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Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 20:16:40 (UTC)

No, I haven't finished the puzzle from the 24th yet.. it's LONG.

But I'll throw you guys a bone on how I'm doing it.

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6440 is a winning position

 y    t    y    t    y    t    y   t
6440 5430 5400 4400 4300 4000 3000 0
          5330 4330 4300 4000 3000 0
          4430 4400 4300 4000 3000 0

Where the numbers beneath y, t represent the status of the piles on your and their turn, respectively. I'm beginning to think that there IS a way to win absolutely, but I'm a little ways off from a complete solution.

p.s. My apologies if this screws up your comment column, qyv.

pps. I like the preview! Very nice. Now you just have to put in a vertical scrollbar -- it's annoying not having it!

Human Bean

Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 20:56:17 (UTC)

Hibernia? Really? I hear the money on those sorts of work sites is good - know a few people who worked in northern Alberta doing similar style work. They all came back with quite a lot of money...

the man with the golden duck

Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 21:43:18 (UTC)

6440 = one pile of 6 beans, two piles of 4 beans, and one empty pile (the 0's are there as placeholders).

So on turn x, if you (y) have 6440, the winning move is to take one from the pile with 6 beans, leaving 5430. Now, WHATEVER your opponent (t) does, you can win.

At least that's what I had originally thought.. looking at it again, I realized that I left out the 5420 case.. which now means that a 6440 case isn't necessarily a winning position (we can't yet say that it's an absolute loss or win).

Anyway, even though it's not an absolute win, if your opponent picks randomly *laugh*, there's a 75% chance that after the move (6440->5430) your opponent will pick a losing move (5430->5400, 5430->5330, or 5430->4330).

Human Bean

Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 22:18:09 (UTC)

What common chemical compound is represented by: "HIJKLMNO" ?

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Thursday, July 27, 2000 at 22:53:44 (UTC)

Hmm.. (re: Laz's solution) that's what I thought it said. How the heck do you go from 6440 beans to 5430 beans with one pick?

QYV

Friday, July 28, 2000 at 01:34:30 (UTC)

THAT'S a good question! *looks at results, crumples up excel sheet*

Human Bean

[4:39 PM EDT - Oops.]

Laz found a very, very big bug with my comment script. It should be fixed now, but now I'm a little worried about it accepting double quotes.. *grunts* I'll have to look into it.

Oh yeah, I fixed up Laz's comment entry in the process. Unfortunately, I don't think the table is very clear, nor do I think it makes all too much sense. I think a bit more explaining is in order!

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[4:52 PM EDT - Presto!]

Change a flag here, and presto! Scroll bars are now activated for the comments window. Hopefully this should make it easier for those people previewing long comments.

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[7:55 PM EDT - Chango!]

I just discovered a way to reduce the number of comment scripts that I have (I used to need two scripts, one to preview and one to submit). Now I can have a preview and a submit button on the comment form. Man, I hope I don't screw up anything this time..

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[8:06 PM EDT - Voila!]

It seems as if the new setup is working and is humming along nicely. If there are any problems (like the damned, I mean darned, unpacking bug).

Let's see what else I have to do (or can do) to clean things up a bit..

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[9:14 PM EDT - And I'm off!]

It's time for me to go home. Laz has an update on his page, although some of the comments seem to be more thought (and response) provoking than the entries themselves! Anyway, I think dinner is calling for me..

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