Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Machines, Vanity and Head Scratching

This artist has done a very interesting thing. He has literally created a visual representation of the remembrance of him in the universe. If Kohelet is correct in his musings in Ecclesiastes... then eventually every trace of a remembrance of a person will disappear. Well, Dave has set up an internet enabled representation of this. Weird...

If you want to enjoy interesting puzzle-solving; I have been trying to solve this puzzle when I want to relax for the last week. I am getting closer to solving it. But as I only spend about 10 minutes maximum on it at a time. I still have to work the thing out. It is quite challenging.

4 comments:

Ilan Pillemer said...

I finally completed it. (At least one of the ways, at lunch time today).

Ilan Pillemer said...

The most difficult part is working out how to get rid of those pesky exploding bombs.

sheikh X said...

i tried it too. i was stuck at a few points, particularly getting rid of the red blinking thing, but it all worked out in the end. very cool. i'm very surprised it can be done in more than one way?! it seems very linear to me.

Ilan Pillemer said...

It also seems pretty linear to me.

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.. It's in words that the magic is -- Abracadabra, Open Sesame, and the rest -- but the magic words in one story aren't magical in the next. The real magic is to understand which words work, and when, and for what; the trick is to learn the trick. ... And those words are made from the letters of our alphabet: a couple-dozen squiggles we can draw with the pen. This is the key! And the treasure, too, if we can only get our hands on it! It's as if - as if the key to the treasure is the treasure! ------- John Barth, Chimera