sniffnoy | First entry from PROMYS

Well, I managed to start a game of SoC on only the second day, and I've already learned another game that can be played with a Chess set (Bomb-a-lot, specifically).

It turns out my solution to the Ingenuity problem was completely and utterly wrong. Go me. Saying that 2 is "obviously not a factor" when it obviously *is* a factor is a good way to mess up.

They have Mathematica on some of the computers here. Unfortunately they're on these IRIX computers running I don't know what desktop, but a really annoying one. There's no switch window shortcut, at least not that I know of, or that the people in charge of the lab knew of, and in order to switch to a window you had to click on its title bar - not the window, the title bar. Furthermore I could find not list of all the windows so I could switch to a window from there. This resulted in me moving lots of windows around to find ones hidden in all sorts of bizarre places. A good way to force people to waste a lot of time - not that anyone was doing anything else, anyway. Why couldn't they just use CDE or something? (Or perhaps it was just a really badly configured CDE. I'm not exactly an expert on Unix desktops.)

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You know, I get some really stupid ideas late at night. Though it certainly would be interesting... the problem is where do I get a flashlight...
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