Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Apr 28, 2013)

Card Quandary



Mavis the 'mathemagician' held ten cards (face down) in her hand - Ace (1) to 10 of Hearts.



She moved the top card to the bottom of the pack, counting '1', and turned up the next card, placing it on the table. It was the Ace.



She counted two more cards to the bottom of the pack, showed the next card - the '2' - and placed it on the table.



Counting, 'One, two, three' more to the bottom, she then showed the next card - '3' of Hearts.



This continued for four to nine, and the final card was - ta-daah! - the '10' of Hearts.



Question: What was the original order of cards, from the top to bottom?





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Apr 28, 2013)

Teenagers

How well do you know this song by My Chemical Romance?



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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Diffidence

diff-i-dence



noun :: Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.



"Well, hardening my heart, and putting my diffidence into my ragged pocket, I approached Peter Petrovitch, and halted before him more dead than alive." -- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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The Modular Marble Machine

If you’ve been following the blog, the Modular Marble Machine is finally finished. If you remember from the last blog entry, all I really had left was to apply a finish.



That, because of all the small parts, was quite an undertaking in itself.

I wasn’t sure what to use for a finish. I was concerned about the tight tolerances of the block pieces causing issues with finish getting in the holes. In the end, I decided on a polyurethane rub. It is just a mixture of Minwax polyurethane and boiled linseed oil. The base unit got three coats. The block pieces however, because of my concerns, only got a single light sealing coat.



That left us with a finished project. I wanted to show the front of the base unit in this photo because I love the look of this piece of wood I wound up using on it.

All of the block pieces are inside the base unit. It makes it handy to be able to store them all in there if you wish to put it away. It is a puzzle in itself though fitting them all in there.



You can see what I mean here. They have to be arranged just so if you want to place the base plates in where they belong.



After unloading all the pieces though, you put the elevator column in place, replace the feed chute and base plates, and then you can start having fun building marble runs.



You can build single tracks.



You can use the flipflop pieces and build double tracks.

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I made videos. The problem is that I have a lot more patience and skill with wood work than I do with computer and video software. After six hours of messing with Windows Movie Maker and coming up very unsuccessful in putting the four video sections I’d made together into on short video, I gave up and uploaded them to YouTube in four parts. So please excuse me for the way I had to do it and watch all four videos below.

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Daily Sudoku: Sun 28-Apr-2013

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Pundles Brain Teasers Released for iOS - Flex Your Mind - prMac - prMac (press release)

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Post Hunt returns June 2, 2013 - Washington Post

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MOVIE REVIEW: Iron Man 3 - Under the Gun Review

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Diabolic dice puzzle

Hello

Knotcurser had posted here a diabolic dice puzzle (http://lumberjocks.com/projects/67785) and I have made on for a friend who is retired since yesterday

A long time to try to solve the problem

Thanks to Knotcurser for the inspiration

It’s more difficult that we can think because all of us have ever seen a dice but who knows really how the numbers are placed …..

Thanks for looking

Comments welcome good and bad

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Perfectly Timed Photos [Gallery]

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Perfectly Timed Photos , also known as Photos Taken at Just Right Moment are often to be found floating around the net. I tend to ignore them, until I’m able to collect enough qualifying samples, ones I can feature inside my #galleries. Even though most of them involve sun or a moon, there are other extraordinary examples featuring funny, puzzling, sexy or artistic moment. I’ve included some more popular ones, and you be the judge which of them features most of the mentioned attributes!

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