2008-10

Try to master blindfold cubing

Recently I try to master blindfold cubing. I learned about the basic concepts to solve - it's very simple: all I have to do are (1) memorizing the configuration of a Rubik's Cube; then (2) solving it with algorithms which don't have unexpected side effects. The latter is easy because I can apply my experience and knowledge of ordinary solving.

But the problem is the former - it's hard to memorize even there are some techniques to save stuffs to memorize. I wonder why holders of the world records of blindfold cubing can solve shorter than 60 seconds.

Re: Yakitara: Cloning a local git repository into a remote host

• Yakitara: Cloning a local git repository into a remote host

local$ ssh {user}@{remote-host}
remote$ mkdir -p {remote-repos}.git
remote$ cd {remote-repos}.git
remote$ git init --bare
remote$ exit

local$ cd {local-repos}
local$ git remote add {nickname} ssh://{user}@{remote-host}/{remote-repos}.git
local$ git push {nickname} --all  # git push {nickname} --tags and/or git push {nickname} --mirror

Though {nickname} can be "origin", I prefer to reserve it for git clone.

Vim: advice 0.0.0 & stackreg 0.0.0

I've released ADVICE, a library for Vim script to alter the behavior of a command in modular way. The concept of ADVICE is derived from advising functions of Emacs.

And I've also released stackreg, a plugin for Vim to provide Vz-like stackable registers. This plugin is an example of how to use ADVICE.

Made a donation to Vim

While I hate many bad points of Vim now, I made a donation to Vim for my 8 years with the editor. Thank you so much, Bram Moolenaar and all contributors (see :help credits for the details.)

Nendoroid: Head/Face parts exchange table

The following table shows that a face part of a Nendoroid (all rows but the first row) can be joined to head parts of other Nendoroid (the first row) or not. In the table, "o" means parts can be perfectly joined, "x" means parts cannot be joined and "?" means parts cannot joined but it may be deceived -- for example, a face part of Al Azif cannot be joined to head parts of Tsuruya-san but it may be deceived as the following photo shows.

Although parts can be joined by shaving off extra portions, it cannot be undone and I'm not afford to have two or more Nendoroids of a same product.

To buy, or not to buy - Kinesis Contoured Keyboard

Recently, for a few weeks, my right wrist sometimes aches. It seems to be RSI, and I remember I had RSI of my right pinky.

By the way, I use Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite2 for 4 or 5 years. It's a nice keyboard for its minimalism, but the touch of each key is cheap. Also I'm bored with the keyboard recently.

So I want to buy a new, more ergonomic keyboard. While there are many keyboard, I'm attracted to Kinesis Contoured Keyboard. The bottlenecks are its price and its size. Hmm...