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Sudoku Solver Paper

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Notes

  • Be flexible: There appears to be a tendency to focus on a subset of techniques using only rows.   Use the solver to work through some examples.  Observe casually the techniques used and note which ones you have been skipping or not using enough.  
  • Use your eyes to find probabilistic soft entry spots.  For example well populated row that passes through a well populated square.
  • Using the solver paper makes more work.  It is useful to observe patterns but gets in the way too.

Solve your sudoku using this paper.  Circle the given square number.  X out the eliminated values of the square.  The following jpg image is sized to print out on 8.5 x 11 paper

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Bamboo Net

While setting up an above board net connection we are using a Ubiquiti NanoStation M2 to rob signal. ( roubando sinal ).  Its doing ok given that the router its hooking into is probably 4 km away.  The pole used is a green bamboo. 

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Smart Feller has fun with words

Rev 3

 I'm a tree feller who's quite a smart feller

 I fell more trees than three smart fellers      

 

 When I am around all feller fell smart

 Yes I fell more smart than any tree feller

 

  My girlfriend fell for a smart feller.  

  her heart felled for the best of smart feller

  I'm really lucky I fell smart  

  When she fell smarted but I'm the feller who felt smart   

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Hey you – Get out of there!

A friend of mine had a very loud voice.  As we were driving he would spot someone keying the lock on their own car or house.  He would shout in the loudest voice possible:  "HEY YOU …. GET OUT OF THERE".   The funniest part is that it worked.  People would jump and look guilty as if they were breaking into their own homes!

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

It is a bathroom

A couple of friends of mine used to do a funny prank wherein they would wait until someone was walking into some area they were unfamiliar with.  The would blurt out a curt "It's a bathroom" … and the more times than not the person being pranked would dead foot stop and turn around.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

FartMaster 2000 Reprised

This page is a tribute to a good friends first visual basic application in the mid 1990's.  At the time I had a copy of VB5 and had a total mind block as to how it worked.  You see I was accustomed to old style coding.  Windows uses a type of coding that is "event driven".  Often when I have a mental block such as this I go to this friend and many times he breezily picks up the stuff.  At that point I usually go aha! THAT'S what they mean and through monkey see monkey do I go on my merry way.  Thus I want to make it perfectly clear I am not the author of FartMaster 2000 and can in no way claim credit for this great creation of western culture.

A side story on this is quite funny.  Shortly after this was coded I passed a copy to my girlfriend's son who proceeded to really like it and obsessively play the sounds.  This drove his sister nuts as you know it would most women as they do not share our masculine preoccupation with great farts and their high fidelity simulations.

If the embedded media players do not work you can click on the photos

rattler.jpg

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago