mar12.2008

Fortunately for some, unfortunately for others, the last blog entry was a bit.. off on a tangent, shall we say. Today, we will return to our own proper selves in reality, and recap on what has been going on for the past few days.

So, for the past few days, I must admit, my productivity has been rather low. Unless Starcraft is progress - which I force myself to believe is not. Regardless, there has been a lot of it. Yes, folks, for the next few paragraphs or so, I will indeed be going on a Starcraft tangent. Bear with me, or scroll past, please.












The past week or so has been a week of a lot of change when it comes to Starcraft. I have switched races to Terran, as I have often thought of doing in the past. I see them as Lego blocks that combine to build a greater unit. In a way, that's very true when I play Terran. However, I play Terran terribly.

I have recently taken to the iCCup ladder. If you don't know what that is, and are wondering what it is, Google it. Perhaps it is because of the fact that Season 7 has just recently begun, seeing as how there is only one single A- player right now, but I somewhat doubt all the D level players on iCCup are really D level players, or are they just new fresh accounts ready to move onto D+, then C-, etc? After all, in my first two days of playing on iCCup, I had resulted in an 0-8 record (all as Terran). Not so bad, but really, can you get any worse than that?

Thankfully, I've put some work into my Terran skills and by today, after about three of four days of iCCup, I have a slightly better, but still terrible 4-13 record. Here have a look:

My Match List

I think I'm slowly getting there, though. Only time will tell how terribly my record will be. Still, I'm happy that I'm progressing. Already, I've had a couple of totally on-fire games where my APM, Micro and Macro hit all time high, both games smooth wins. But enough of Starcraft.

In other news, I have finally solved the 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube! Without instructions, in fact. Maybe it's because I've never actually sat down to try to solve it, but I feel somewhat proud of my accomplishment.

To finish, I will close with a sort of riddle. Here's some food for thought:

There are 11 wizards.
They are about to be tested - a test of epic proportions of epic epicness.
For simplicity's sake, if they fail the test, they're branded as n00bs. And we won't want that, do we?
The test goes as follows:
Every wizard is blindfolded, and a hat is put on each wizard's head.
Then they are unblindfolded - this means that they can see all the other 10 wizards' hats, but not their own.
Now, simultaneously, each wizard shows one of either a Black Card, or a White Card - simultaneously.
Based on this, simultaneously, each wizard must guess the colour of his own hat - simultaneously.
Now, it is known to them that there are 1000 hats - all of different colours.
Is there.. a possible strategy that these wizards can come up with, so that they can pass this test? And avoid being branded as n00bs.

I, actually, don't know the answer to this question. But I'll think about it, if you do.

And that is all for this time. Stay tuned.