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As any cuber knows, a typical 3x3x3 shouldn't be able to turn corners in place, but now mine is loose enough to do so almost easily.

Yes I twisted it back properly, and yes the cube still works as intended, but it's starting to fall apart. Guess I'm due for a new cube soon...

I cut the top of a 16.9 ounce water bottle off, and filled it flush to the top with loose dry snow to let melt and measure. The cut bottle measured right at 5½ inches tall, once it melted down there was right at ¾ of an inch of water. That's only about 13.64% of the initial volume, meaning the snow was about 86.36% air.

We also just got a weather update for our town, they're saying we got about 7 inches of snow, which would have only been just shy of an inch of rain (about 61/64 of an inch), if it hadn't come down as snow.

Edit: 7 inches ≈ 1 banana

http://bananaforscale.info/#!/convert/length/7/inches/bananas

Personally, I dunno about the whole idea of insisting there's a 'default' way to look at and hold a cube, the same techniques can work from any side color, as long as you keep it consistent and keep your mind on track.

Then again, I'm also a cube turner, but I'll be reorienting the entire cube while turning one of the sides at the same time.

I dunno, I'm no expert yet, but I'm learning as I play around with it.

And if not, we need to resolve this fecal inconsistency immediately!

And if not, well we need to resolve this fecal inconsistency immediately!

I had a rather stupid large pair when I was in middle school. Never bothered wearing them to school though, for almost obvious reasons.

But now they've managed to more or less streamline them. How useful are they though? Is it worth picking up as a last ditch emergency set of glasses?

You can probably barely tell, but yes I had to solder that spot in the center of the photo (right nose piece), on glasses made in 1988.

I had to do a little mild bending, which already scared me, to take the lenses about a millimeter away from my nose bridge, to stop from rubbing against my eyebrows.

The right nose piece started to weaken and almost broke off, so I cleaned that with a Dremel and soldered it to reinforce it.

Sorry the photo angle is a bit dim, but it came out solid and clean 👍

I'm sure many of you have seen this image floating around online at some point.

It seems a rather neat idea, though I'd be worried about any sort of accident, or even potential fight, ripping that piercing right out.

But, what if the lenses attached with magnets instead?...

This one surely isn't gonna be a speed cube of any sort, not only is it tiny but it's also very tight and rather tough. Which is actually convenient if it's also meant to double as a usable die to be rolled on a table.

This time I changed the dots around to conform to the US Casino official dice dot pattern. Not much changed except which side 3 and 4 are on, plus the slant direction on 2 and 3.

My choice of starting point was White=1, Blue=2, and let everything else fall into place based on official standards.

White=1, Blue=2, Orange=3, Red=4, Green=5, Yellow=6

The slight change in the dots doesn't really change previous dot patterns I've already found with my previous prototype, except the 5/5/5 pattern swaps one of the 5 sides, but the same set of moves still yields the 5/5/5 pattern.

Ignore the die, that's just to tilt the glasses up to more easily see the nose bridge. The rigup totally works, except that over time sweat degrades the heatshrink and it starts to swell. When the rigup was fresh, it was so streamlined that it almost looked factory made, but alas heatshrink doesn't like sweat and body oils.

The exact model is apparently M•Flex ME507. The frames would otherwise be really nice, if it wasn't for the fact that this is the second same set of frames I've had break in exactly the same way.