Back in 2006 I registered www.viralpoems.com for a year or two. This was one of those money-making ideas that didn't. Anyway, I just discovered some pix on an old hard drive, so in the interests of historical

Here are algorithms for cubes 5x5x5, 7x7x7, 9x9x9 etc. These tips aren't especially original, but are collected together for ease of use as I tend to forget them if not cubing regularly. I use simple

I wrote this poem in the early 90s, shortly after reading Jurassic Park. In 1996 I published it in the Usenet group rec.arts.poems, and later on one of my obscure websites. It is pretty much self-explanatory.

How willing will someone be to scramble a cube, assuming they will have to solve it? The willingness is roughly inversely proportional to the personal effort one considers it will take to solve it. In

Here is the solution for the Tartan Cube I worked out in 2002. The text below comes from that, as put into a simple eBook along with the Shepherd Cube solution in my previous Steemit post. Note that there

In May 2002 while living in Los Angeles I purchased a Shepherd Cube and a Tartan Cube. I noticed that there was no solution online, so I worked out a simple one for each and put them on a web site. In

I wrote this mixture of fact and fantasy around 1991 about a girl I worked with in LA, Jane Lok originally from the Bay area. But she didn't like me or my poetry. Such is life. 😊 The Ballad of Feisty

I wrote these around 1993 when I had a shirt-and-tie job right next to Hollywood & Vine in Los Angeles. I did actually approach a local homeless man by Sunset & Ivar and offered him a suitably-lettered

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-40 Verses 41-60 Verses 61-80 Verses 81-100 Verses 101-120 Verses 121-140 Verses 141-160 Verses 161-170 Looking about with omniscient

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-40 Verses 41-60 Verses 61-80 Verses 81-100 Verses 101-120 Verses 121-140 Verses 141-150 The ring was the thing that was guiding them

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-40 Verses 41-60 Verses 61-80 Verses 81-100 Verses 101-120 Verses 121-130 But why, you might ask, was this happening to A space-cruiser

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-40 Verses 41-60 Verses 61-80 Verses 81-100 Verses 101-110 This guy thought it silly that every day The sun through the heavens did

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-40 Verses 41-60 Verses 61-80 Verses 81-90 This race was ancient – for billions of years They'd evolved and become ultra-clever They

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-40 Verses 41-50 “The crew had been drinking and now they were all In the midst of an unsober revel As they were carousing I got a beer

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-40 Verses 41-60 Verses 61-70 “It's got it,” they whispered and all gathered round To see what was on the VDU But the screen it were

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. Intro and verses 1-20 Verses 21-30 But not knack enough as the cruiser went drunkenly End over end in the chasm “Engage hyperspin!” yelled the irate Capt'in As his

Under the Rim. An epic galactic romp. I have always considered a "real" poem should have Rhyme, Rhythm and Reason, namely: The lines should properly rhyme There should be a regular metre or metres

This is a follow-up post to @yawnguy2/the-bidbot-dilemma. In brief: My @yawnguy and @yawnguy2 posts get curated by others when bidbot-promoted These bidbot-promoted posts occupy "trending" slots,

I got this recently for a change. It's manufactured by Scottsdale Mint for the Republic of Chad, 2 ounces, .999 fine. The face value is 1000 Francs CFA, roughly 1.5 euros. The words attached to the

Look what I just got for £5 ($6.40, €5.60)! It didn't have any silver dollars in it, of course. I went into a local (more or less) coin shop in North Shields -- North East England -- to buy a set of