Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Weekend Randomness

Notes to self:
  1. Do not use the washing machine and the tumble dryer at the same time.
  2. Spare fuses are good things to have.
  3. When a plug is scorchingly hot to the touch and both it and the 4-way it was plugged into have melted patches, that's bad.
Laundry is such fun.

So much for the weather. The distressingly nice Friday was, of course, followed by a wet and gloomy weekend. The rain forcing everyone indoors means that everywhere's full for lunch and the packed shops have ridiculous queues for the changing rooms. To add to the joy, both Slither and Silent Hill had moved to evening showings only, leaving me with my third choice, M:I:3. It's actually a pretty reasonable action flick, marred mostly by the annoying Tom "shark sofa" Cruise trying to insinuate himself into virtually every frame. Oh, and the new Superman trailer is rather promising.

Now that The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google is drawing to a close, the puzzles are really starting to get tricky - the first three tiers were fairly straightforward, but the fourth, not so much. Yesterday's sudoku-style puzzle was really quite nasty, and today's "Restoration" one was taking so long by trial-and-error, that I ended up writing a program to solve it (what, me, a geek?).
Tags: doh, geekery, movies, puzzles
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  • 3 comments

benjj

May 7 2006, 18:42:38 UTC 14 years ago

...this is why you have fused 4-gang sockets...
Or possibly a dodgy tumble drier...

zorac

May 7 2006, 19:07:29 UTC 14 years ago

It was the fuse in the 4-gang which actually blew; the washing machine plug has some fairly impressive heat damage - quite why its fuse didn't blow is a mystery. In any case, both washer and dryer will be gone when the new kitchen finally arrives...

sophie10

May 8 2006, 16:37:34 UTC 14 years ago

GEEK!