Average of 10: new personal best time

I did some cubing yesterday morning and got a new best time for an average of 10: 34.22 seconds! Scrambles and timing was done with JNetCube, following the speedcubing.com rules for average of 10.

Here are the details.

----- JNetCube Best Average for Sat May 28 16:18:29 BST 2005 -----

Average: 34.22

Fastest Time: 27.95
Slowest Time: 42.53
Standard Deviation: 04.42

Individual Times:

Solve 1: 40.62s
Scramble: B U B U' F' D L D' B U' R' U2 B' D2 U' R2 U' F U' L F R' F D2 L

Solve 2: 30.17s
Scramble: U2 B2 U' F2 D2 R' U' R U2 F2 U' F R' D B D2 R L2 U' B F' D' L2 F2 B

Solve 3: 34.97s
Scramble: B' U' B2 F L2 U2 L2 B' D F D2 R' D' F R D' F L' B' R D U2 B2 D' B'

Solve 4: 31.48s
Scramble: F' R' L' F' L2 D U F2 L B' D2 L B2 F2 R B U R' D L F' R2 L2 F2 U2

Solve 5: (27.95s)
Scramble: L U' B F2 U F' U D2 F D' L' D L2 U B2 L' F D' L F2 D' F2 B U2 B

Solve 6: 42.44s
Scramble: L D F' D' F' U2 L2 U D L F' B D2 F2 R' B' R U2 F R2 B' U' L' B D2

Solve 7: 30.96s
Scramble: F' B2 U L2 U' L D' F' U2 F2 R D R2 U2 F B2 L R2 B' L U' L' B2 D2 L

Solve 8: 30.11s
Scramble: U2 F U2 F2 U' R2 B' L' U' B' U' B D' R2 B' F' R2 L' U' F2 D2 F L' B2 U'

Solve 9: (42.53s)
Scramble: B' F R' B2 D2 U2 R2 F' L' B L' F' R' L' F' U R U D2 F R' D U2 L' B2

Solve 10: 34.17s
Scramble: B D L D' R2 B L2 F D2 U' R B' R' U F2 U' F R2 L U2 D' L2 B' U' D

Solve 11: 30.94s
Scramble: R2 B' U R F D' R U' L' D' F2 U' L' U L U2 D' B D' R' B U B D F2

Solve 12: 36.32s
Scramble: R2 F' L D' R2 B2 F' R2 B F L2 R U' R' B' D2 L2 R' B2 U2 F D U' B2 D2

More weather ramblings: addendum

The important thing that I forgot to mention in the previous post is that the Weather Panel for Canberra is showing the week leading up to winter, whereas the London one is obviously leading up to summer.

Heading towards summer in London

Heading towards winter in Canberra

More weather ramblings

At the beginning of the week when I checked Weather Panel on my iPAQ, I saw the following. This once again confirmed for me that London weather is horrible compared to Canberra weather.

Crap London weather

Nice Canberra weather

Turns out that by the end of the week, the weather in London had improved and it was a nice sunny day on Friday (about 27 degrees Celsius). On the train on Friday morning I picked up Metro (free commuter newspaper) and read that it was going to be a similarly nice sunny day on Saturday, but would be colder and greyer again by Sunday. The thing I found quite ridiculous about this is obviously not that the weather would go crap so quickly, but that two consecutive days of 27 degrees is considered a 'heatwave'. Yes, seriously. The newspaper said something about 'the heatwave will be over by Sunday'.

BTW, this is what the Weather Panel had to say about Arlington. All over the place - everything from happy suns to grumpy thunder clouds with lightning. Crazy stuff.

Crazy Arlington weather

PhD in trolls

Camilla Asplund Ingemark has researched trolls for six years and has now written the first doctoral dissertation on the subject.

Her study describes the world of trolls according to the beliefs in the folklore of Swedish-speaking Finns.

Interesting.

Marriage statistics in Australia

Median age at marriage: 31.2 years (males) and 29.1 years (female).
Median age at first marriage: 29.2 years (male) and 27.3 years (female).
Percentage of couples who live together before marriage: 75%
Percentage of marriages in which neither party had been previously married: 66%

London weather is still crap

Despite Peter's claims, the weather in London is still crap.

Here's what Weather Pixie has to say about it.

Unlike Weather Pixie, I'm not smiling about it.