I’ve been playing Candy Crush Saga varieties for a few years now on laptops with Microsoft Windows, and I’m currently playing Candy Crush Saga version 1.2590.1.0. I reached level 3000 on January 3, 2022 and level 4000 on November 6, 2022. (Notice that the images for the jelly fish changed during that time.)
I’m currently on level 4878 and I’m proud to say I have never bought anything from the Shop, that is, I’ve never paid real money for anything in the game.
Continue reading “Candy Crush Saga”Yesterday, I passed by a shop selling used objects (mostly from Japan and Korea) and I found this automatic Citizen Crystal Date watch with 17 jewels. Because the serial number at the back starts with a ‘7,’ I suspect that it was produced in 1967.
Stack Exchange Winter Bash 2022 ends in a few hours. I was able to get 24 hats. I wasn’t able to create a composite image showing me wearing each hat. The image below is the standard image.
My previous record for the most hats I got was in Winter Bash 2020, when I got 23 hats.
Stack Exchange Winter Bash 2021 ended a few hours ago. I was able to get 11 hats. I wasn’t able to create a composite image showing me wearing each hat. The image below is the standard image.
I was surprised to learn that out of 759,959 users of the Stack Exchange network (who presumably chose to wear hats), I am ranked #134. The user ranked #1 had 38 hats; the user ranked #2 had 35 hats. The 759,959 users had 955,796 hats, which means an average of around 1.26 hats per (hat-wearing?) user.
Stack Exchange Winter Bash 2020 ended yesterday. I was able to get 23 hats, the most I’ve ever gotten. I’m a little busy right now so I wasn’t able to create a composite image showing me wearing each hat. The image below is the standard image.
My mother recently passed away. While my sister was going through old photographs of my mother, I found this photograph of the car she used to drive when I was young.
It’s a Ford Escort Ghia Automatic. We don’t have the car any more, and I don’t have more details about it, but the picture shows the car having a 1978 license plate. The car was probably a 1976, a 1977, or a 1978 model. I like its styling, specifically, its white metal and black plastic. The vinyl roof and the rubber bumper guards are things you don’t find in newer cars.
I’ve been very busy with work for the past six months, so I haven’t been blogging.
Stack Exchange Winter Bash 2019 ends tomorrow. I was able to get five hats, and a bug let me wear (but not own) a sixth hat early. My heavy work schedule as well as recent events on Stack Exchange have resulted in my not being so active in getting more hats.
For the sixth time in a row, I was a problem setter and judge for an ACM ICPC programming contest held in Ateneo de Naga University. Last October 7, 2018, twelve teams participated and their performances are shown below. I guess the low number of participants is due to the two-year absence of new undergraduate students (from 2016 to 2017) due to the addition of two years of senior high school in the Philippine educational system.
I contributed two problems: Problem C: “Symbolic System” (based on the symbolic system described on page 102 of Wolfram’s “A New Kind of Science”) and Problem E: “Fibonacci Ones digit” (based on Rossi D’Souza’s “Where did/do mathematical concepts come from?” in For the Learning of Mathematics, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 25-27). Only two teams attempted problem C; only one team attempted problem E; all three failed to solve the problems.
Stack Exchange Winter Bash 2018 ends tomorrow. I was able to get 11 hats.
I have a few Hot Wheels Treasure Hunts that I’m not so excited about. If they weren’t Treasure Hunts, I probably wouldn’t have bought them.
This Speedbox is from 2014.
This Tread Air is from 2015.
This Street Stealth is from 2018.
This Zombot is from 2018.
The circle-flame logo is on the robot’s knee.
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