
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!



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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.
(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