I know some of you just couldn’t bear the anticipation, and while I know I could have just edited my old post to add this, it was simply too important to just go back and change — my Heelys have shipped and will be here by December 13th!
Archive for December, 2006
I have a couple of confessions today: I really like Sudoku, and I really want a pair of Heelys; yes, the shoes with wheels on them, and, in case you were wondering, I’m 28. Anyway, I just recently starting playing Sudoku (I was introduced to it months ago, just never got into it until now); after I had played a few puzzles on the easiest setting, and beating the average player’s time the majority of the time, I decided that I was so awesome I could jump straight to the hardest setting — I was only able to get this far without guessing: evil puzzle.
After about 3 days of being retarded (off and on, total time spent was about 3 hours), I just decided to use the scratch system the game provided to solve the puzzle, by eliminating patterns that didn’t work. In other words, I solved it through trial and error (here’s the solution); though, I was under the impression that was unnecessary to solve any Sudoku puzzle (if you happen to know any tricks to get further than I did, please let me know). After I had solved the puzzle, I decided to go back and try using the built-in hint system; this at least made me feel a little better, because the hint system wasn’t even able to get as far as me.
If you’ve never played Sudoku, I highly recommend it; you can even find a few free versions on sourceforge.net. The screenshots I provided earlier were from the free windows version of the game on Sourceforge; and it’s extremely more functional than it is attractive, though it is possible to change the colors (I’m too lazy/busy writing dumb online journal posts).
So after I had decided to find a pair of Heelys, I checked a couple stores in St. George to see if they had my size. The sales person at the mall just laughed, then said no. The sales clerk at the next store at least replied with, “No, because I’ve checked.” He then said they could order a pair in, it’s that they just don’t keep a men’s size 12 in stock. I didn’t want to order them there, so I just gave up looking for my size, and actually forgot about them completely for the next few days; that is, until I was checking one of my favorite, extremely-poor-designed sites (though it does often list incredibly great deals), hot-deals.org. They listed that Heelys were on sale on buy.com for only $40 after Google checkout. I’m still waiting for them; and hopefully they get here before Christmas. Yum.