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Do you have the Guiness Book of Records? I don't, to be honest I have never quite understood the fun of all those ridiculous records. Er...that is, until I realized I myself was also busy breaking some crazy limit. I often play the mahjongg game called Kyodai on the computer. First, I had trouble enough getting rid of all the stones of the pyramid, but when I managed that I started to try to do it as fast as I could. After a long time I reached the point where I could do it in 2 minutes. I never thought I would ever be quicker than that, but yes one day I managed to do it in less and one day I managed to do it in less than 1.50, then 1.40 and at the moment my personal record is 1.31. Why am I doing this? I have no idea. (It's not ADHD or OCD or EH nor has it anything to do with my creativity ) It's just that when it goes real fast, it's as if my mind is totally empty of any thought and my hand is moving all by itself, it's a wonderful feeling.
Do you hold any special record? Please enter in the Hatrack Book of Records.
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This certainly isn't a world record, but I have yet to hear that anyone I personally know has beaten my best Minesweeper time: 87 seconds on Expert level.
(I've actually been looking for a way to ask people's minesweeper scores around here; thanks ginette.)
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See, I knew there'd be better minesweepers out there than me. I haven't gotten in the 80's in a long long time, although in my peak I was pretty consistently in the 95-105 range.
I also have never met anyone who has a head with a greater circumference than mine. I've met one person who tied.
[Edit: I did know that there were faster minesweepers out there. I found a website with a bunch of people in the sub-minute range. I just didn't know any of those people.]
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I have an inordinately large head. Do we go literally "head to head," or do we get to go off percentiles since I'm female and you're male?
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I am sorry about your minesweeper record saxon. See, all the others out there do not count, it's a Hatrack book of records, so until now only Bokonon has beaten you. Just that one time.
And large heads do not count. That is your mother's accomplishment, to get you out like that, not yours .
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Aw. I thought this was a thread for Hatrack records, as in records relating specifically to Hatrack. *pout* I'm pretty confident that I still have the longest post.
quote:I also have never met anyone who has a head with a greater circumference than mine. I've met one person who tied.
I'd be willing to bet my head has a larger circumference. Too bad we didn't compare when we had the opportunity.
Oh, wait . . . you meant . . .
quote:I have a 53% win rate at Freecell on the computer.
And this is with over 1000 games played.
On my old computer, with over a thousand games played, I was somewhere in the mid-sixties.
I have SO burned out on that game . . .
um . . .
I have unusually high standardized test scores, but I get thwacked every time I brag . . .
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My longest streak is 32 wins. then I lost a few.
*the seceret: Log out of windows if you are about to lose. It does not mark against you.*
It works, but I did it once and not on my long streak I had already blown that. A co-worker and I had a running challange to see who could win the most. at times we would start the same game at the same time to see who could finish faster. I am good with puzzles. His runnig score was 86%.
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That could also be said for me, (that I get good scores on standardized tests) but JaneX tromped me when it comes to the PSAT, so I can't talk...
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You think, Icky? I don't know, I used to ramble a lot. Some of my old genocide posts and death penalty posts were pretty darn long. Of course, they are gone now. Posts: 9871 | Registered: Aug 2001
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At one point, on my old computer, I had 1922 consecutive winning games of Freecell. I've still got the screenshot somewhere. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Oh I don't think any of your posts even come close. The only one I recall seeing that came close was one by Redskull (sp?) describing a hellish trip to Epcot.
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I don't seem to have been able to ever beat 142 seconds on expert level. (Though I might have done it on another computer.) I don't know how you guys do it.
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"one time i took my ice skate off and tried to stab a guy int he neck. i was the only guy ever to do that." -Adam sandler; happy gilmore
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I ate 30 (natural)oysters in one sitting at a seafood buffet..
I thought that was pretty good till I talked to a guy who lived around there: apparently all the locals go on saturday night and the current record is around *200*.
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I believe I qualify as Hatrack's friendly neighborhood witch. Does that mean I hold a record in being a friendly neighborhood witch? Posts: 701 | Registered: Jul 1999
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Way back in the bad old days, before PC's when most of the computer options were these humongous main frames, I was programming one of the few minicomputers, and let me tell you, it was primitive. First, it had only 4K of memory, and that was core memory (teensy magnetized donuts of core), the only programming language available was assembler, and it didn't have any floating point arithemetic funtions, and to boot the computer up, you had to hit a series of toggle switches that were arranged in octal. Anyway, a group of us had a challenge to write the smallest program possible that would actually do something, such as write a pattern through the computers memory (oh, and the only storage media on this puppy was paper tape that you punched and read back in through a teletype device, which was the only interface to the computer besides the switches. I wrote a one word program that stored a register in the next address in memory. The register contained the octal code to store itself in the next address in memory. When the program ran the flashing lights on the front panel made it look like it was burning up. Posts: 168 | Registered: Aug 2003
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::Turns Icarus into a newt:: I'll only turn you back into a human if you tack back the burning. Trogdor and Celia are the only two aloud to burn/inate me.
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Let me give you the short, plain language version.
It's what used to be called "water on the brain."
Your brain sits in a bath of spinal fluid. This fluid is constantly being produced and reabsorbed, maintaining a constant pressure. Sometimes, this balance can be disturbed. When it happens in infants, the head grows, since the growth plates in the head haven't fused and the skull is soft.
In my case, the doctor who delivered me caused heavy bleeding in using forceps. As it turned out, the bleeding damaged the tissues that reabsorb spinal fluid in the skull.
My head grew, my brain got kinda spread out and squeezed.
I was one of the very first infants to be treated with a device called a shunt, a tube that goes through the right side of my brain and into the cavities underneath the brain (ventricles). The other end of the tube drains into an artery near my heart.
That's just one cause for hydrocephalus - there are lots of others.
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I have the most nth threads. And I believe the Hug thread is just a few dobies short of the most dobie'd thread, standing at 9 total dobies that I can find, not including one that used to be on Grenme.
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Well, ginette, it looks like everyone's kinda ignored your original comment - which was about mahjongg. I certainly was addicted to it for awhile, but never came close to the time you mention here. There are a lot of different versions of the game, though.
side note: I think my 16-year-old son has the record for most watching/re-watching of M*A*S*H episodes (he has them all on VHS). He does M*A*S*H marathons all the time. Wish I had his life.
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