RE: Post making contest
05-31-2016, 07:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-31-2016, 07:49 PM by Sruixan.)
This is update #78.
Here is an incomplete list of things that your correspondent here knows off by heart:
Here is an incomplete list of things that your correspondent here knows off by heart:
- An impractical number of digits of pi.
- The names and symbols of all the elements on the periodic table (convenient for last round).
- The xyz coordinates of all 74 portal-accessible locations in the Submachine series of point-and-click puzzle games and the 26 three-character designations of the karma portal drop zones. (it was easier than constantly having to check my notes, apparently)
- The lyrics to far too many albums in their entirety, frequently without me having realised I'd internalised them, including ones I haven't heard in years (turns out that CD of Beck albums my dad made for long car journeys when I was about ten still haunts me to this day, because I immediately knew how to solve this puzzle from recognising one line).
- The names of every ship in the Culture series.
- The lyrics to songs that don't even have lyrics (I do a mean Frontier Psychiatrist).
- The first half of the second pair of Schubert's Two Waltzes that I learnt for that one piano grade exam years ago but refuses to leave my muscle memory for no good reason, despite the latter half having gone long ago.
- More of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats than I should.
- More trigonometric identities than are really necessary (gee, thanks Mr. Wiltshire).
- A proof that Charpit's method works.