Reviews for many cubes are riddled with complaints about sticker quality. And, like clockwork, every time someone complains about the quality, someone snarks, “Who cares? You’ll replace it with Cubesmith stickers in a month anyway.” Having taken a recent liking to my ShengEn Type F-II, I wore through the stickers quite quickly. As Cubesmith seems to be the go-to vendor for replacement stickers, I grabbed a couple different sets, includung a lexan textured “tiles” set. It took about 30 minutes to remove the old stickers with a Scrape-Rite plastic blade and replace them with the tiles. Continue reading
Month: February 2012
chutzpah?
Since launching this blog a couple weeks ago, I’ve grown a bit more self-conscious about it. Not so much because of the mockery – I can endure that, especially when dished by anonymous web denizens. But more a fear that having a cubing-themed blog might project a self-deluded, misplaced belief that I’m actually pretty good at this whole cubing thing. There’s a sort of hubris that attends launching a hobby blog, a sort of “look at me, and look what I can do.” It requires a lot of chutzpah in the face of the dozens of other really good cubing blogs run by folks that can solve a cube 4 times faster than I can. Continue reading
cubist cake
We celebrated my birthday a bit early this year. Wifey surprised me with this clever cake:
She rocks. (And, no, she doesn’t call me “Daddy.” It’s meant to be from my boys….)
adventures in cubing 