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I stumbled on to this today… very cool. It’s Backpacking Lightweight’s page of homemade outdoor gear tutorials.

Everything from packs to tarp tents to compression sacks can be made at home.  If you dig the outdoors, wilderness, survivalism, bushcraft or whatever..  ..then you’ll love this.

Here’s the link: Homemade Outdoor Gear

Lectures on quantum theory by Hans Bethe. At age 93 he did a series of lectures for his neighbors at the retirement community. For once you can hear from physics expert without having to decode (as much) to layman terms.

Here’s the link:
Personal and Historical Perspectives of Hans Bethe.

I haven’t done “f2l only” averages but my cube times are dropping and it’s because my cross / f2l times are dropping.

When I switched to cross on bottom / f2l on bottom of the Rubik’s cube it was like I had to translate every move as I solved. I used to do Cross on top / f2l on left.

Anyway… I practice f2l slow a lot. I’m getting better at using d (little D, bottom 2 layers) turns instead of cube rotations when possible.

My cross time is definitely getting faster but it was decent already.

I gave each f2l pair a name and though of some key things that it’s color reminds me of… this made it a lot easier to see them around the cube as I insert each other pair. Great look ahead trick and it’s also helping to lock in unconscious competence of the order of colors (like what’s left and right of what). I wrote about this on my cube site.

Anyway… just thought I’d drop a quick F2l Update.

Hello,

I’ve received a few cubes since the last time I posted. I have some black and some white “old” type 1 (A) cubes. They are great as I indicated in another post.

I’ve also received a type 2 A cube (or is it type A 2?). Read the rest of this entry »