Archive for August, 2007

No More Time Waste

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Lately I've been spending way too much time on tech news sites like reddit. Whenever I had some free time and thought about doing something productive like reading a book, I would end up gravitating toward one of these time suckers instead. Hours would pass. From time to time I'd ...

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. -- Albert Einstein

Prisoners’ Escape - The Solution

Monday, August 13th, 2007

(you can find the original riddle here) Let's begin with a draft solution, one that doesn't work but will start us in the right direction. And to keep things simple, let's say all the tasks are done the minute the prisoners leave the meeting, so all they have left is to ...

Prisoners’ Escape

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

In an effort to make this blog more interactive, I'm switching the riddles to a new format. I'll first post only the riddle, without the solution, so you guys can have a crack it. After a week or so, I'll post the solution. Here goes... [tex]n[/tex] prisoners are planning an escape. ...