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Not what I meant. It's about this girl I love. I have hopes that things will work out even though she has tried to make it clear innumerable times that we can't be together. But I still wish. I just cant seem to move on. Stupid religious barriers :|
 
I confess that i watch hours upon hours of anime. Not because I like them, but i watch the subtitles to learn english better. And half the time, I'm too lazy to read the poor translations ;w ;
also, im 34 and my kids think that anime is stupid ;w ;
 
My confession is cubing related, and is more so my most embarrassing cubing moment.

I had a HUGE :fp moment back in 2003 related to cubing. I appeared on Canada AM about cubing along with Dror Vomberg and Dave Charbonneau in regards to the 2003 World Championship. Before the interview, one of the tech people affiliated with the show was talking to us cubers and somehow the question came up about how many combinations the cube has. I remember saying "about 43 quintillion" and he asked me if I knew the exact number, which I do. I said the exact number, and he thought it was funny and said that I should say that number on the show, on the air! I figured, sure why not?

So, on the show the interviewer asks us questions about cubing. She was asking me questions about speedcubing, Dror questions about blindfolded cubing, and Dave questions about Seven Towns and the Championship. One of the questions to me was something about "Do you ever get bored when cubing (because you're just scrambling and solving it over and over)?" I responded no, that the cube has so many combinations that you essentially never see the same solve twice.

"In fact, the cube has forty three quintillion, two hundred fifty two quadrillion, three trillion, two hundred seventy four billion, four hundred eighty nine million, eight hundred fifty six thousand possible combinations."

I could see the nervous look on the interviewer's face while I was saying the number, but by then I had already started saying it so I had to finish saying it. We were instructed to keep our responses (and our solves) short to allow us to fit the interview into the allotted time. Nothing like a good wholesome interview to debunk the media stereotype that cubers are nerdy people who are obsessed with the mathematics of the cube and algorithms and crazy methods, but in fact they're regular people who just enjoy the hobby of cubing, right? :fp

Chris
 
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