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Yawnguy2
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Paul Adams. Alternate account for blog posts not related to my @yawnguy free stress-release works.
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2018-11-18 21:02
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Viral poems
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
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Rubik: Tips for bigger odd-numbered cubes
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
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Cosmic Dumptruck (The Caretakers)
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.
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Rubik: Willingness to scramble
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
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Rubik: How to solve the Tartan Cube
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
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Rubik: How to solve the Shepherd Cube
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
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The Ballad of Feisty J
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
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Vagrants
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 161 to 184)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 141 to 160)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 121 to 140)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 101 to 120)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 81 to 100)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 41 to 60)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 61 to 80)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 21 to 40)
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
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Under the Rim (Verses 1 to 20)
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
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steemit
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The bidbot dilemma (Part 2)
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,
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Ramesses II Silver Coin
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
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Nice display case
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
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