I’ve Got The Skills To Pay The Bills (Updated)
Posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 at 8:35 am under Personal.
I’ve got the skills to pay the bills! That’s right. This summer I learned to solve the cube from my friend Chad. It took me about a week to solve it on my own the first time. I’m not a speed cuber but I can finish it in about three minutes. Not bat considering it’s only been about six months although I will definitely learn to speed cube this year. As it turns out, Souther California has the highest concentration of blind fold speed cubing. Yes, I said blindfold speed cubing.
On a relating story, tomorrow night at 8pm the NBC show E-Ring, feat. Benjamin Bratt, will be featuring my hands finishing the cube. My friend Scott Reynolds is a writer for the show and tomorrow his first episode airs. One of the characters in the show will be working a cube in the pentagon and will eventually finish it at the climax of the story. My job was to progress the cube through takes and my hands will be featured at the end finishing it and slamming it down on the table. That is of course if the whole scene doesn’t get cut off from the show. So unless this happens, my hands will debut tomorrow finishing the Rucik’s Cube. George Costanza would be proud.
this is benjamin bratt. a surprisingly nice guy.
left is the scene where the cubing happens. on the right and bellow is my friend scott.
UPDATE: Here are the pics of us watching it live at home. Our friends Scott & Amy, David & Carrie and Jason joined us for the debut of Scott’s writing and my hands. ha ha!
Jan 10th, 2006 at 9:37 am
We will be watching…we don’t miss them even if your hands aren’t on the show…but that will be an extra feature!
And how can you tell it’s “right” if you are blindfolded?
Jan 10th, 2006 at 9:54 am
the cube is first memorized before blindfolding. crazy ha.
Jan 10th, 2006 at 10:49 am
that’s like Rainman stuff there!
Jan 10th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Wow. Very, very cool stuff. I’ll be watching e-ring tomorrow night.
I really need a tivo… I’m sitting here making sure I’ll either be home to watch tomorrow night… or… I need to least be home sometime between 6pm and 7pm so I can manually start my vcr recording… because the remote control is broken so I can’t program it. I hate to buy a new VCR when I could buy a tivo. Breathefire: Do you know when apple is going to have mac mini’s equipped to record TV like you mentioned?
Jan 11th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Watched e-ring…. great episode! Cool rubik’s cube stuff.
Jan 11th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
so I saw hands…I saw rubik’s cube…but was it you?????
Jan 11th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
i’ve been telling everybody! i posted about it too =) good job.
Jan 11th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
my hands showed up at around 45 min into the show, right after the millenium falcon line. it’s a much shorter version of the “finish the cube, slam it down” scene we actually shot but those where my hands for that whole half a second. check out the update with new pictures.
Jan 12th, 2006 at 9:58 am
oh how cool!
Jan 12th, 2006 at 10:32 am
nice work with the cube. Hey, does your friend Scott blog. It’d be interesting to hear about the process behind writing an episode like that. The research must be insane.
Jan 12th, 2006 at 10:41 am
he doesn’t. but it was amazing hearing the stories of how it progressed from outline to script. even more amazing were the real stories of the show’s creator. a real ex-cia, special forces, ranger etc, agent.
Jan 15th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
(01-15) 16:36 PST SAN FRANCISCO, (AP) –
A 20-year-old California Institute of Technology student set a new world’s record Saturday for solving the popular Rubik’s Cube puzzle, turning the tiled brain-twister from scrambled to solved in 11.13 seconds.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/15/international/i041925S05.DTL