h a l f b a k e r y"It would work, if you can find alternatives to each of the steps involved in this process."
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Please log in.
Before you can vote, you need to register.
Please log in or create an account.
|
Assuming you were a teenager in perhaps the eighties, you
would at least be aware of Rubik's Cube, and all the derivatives
that followed.
A small fraction of my peers actually spent the time and effort
needed to solve the cube. Not me though.
A shibboleth, both honouring and granting exclusive
access to
those who misspent their teenage years in that particular way.
A mechanical lock, of 3 x 3 x 3 rotatable colour-coded cubic
sections, in place of a standard doorknob, thus requiring
patience, concentration and determination to open.
Not ideal for fire doors.
Similar...
https://xkcd.com/457/ Is there anything Mr Munroe hasn't already covered..? [neutrinos_shadow, Sep 29 2021]
Found your door handle.
https://ar.pinteres...363032419939411255/ [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 29 2021]
A more likely door handle
https://www.google....HBF_en-GBGB919GB919 [Skewed, Sep 30 2021]
Rubiks Lock
[xaviergisz, Oct 02 2021]
mountweazel_20dictionary
[hippo, Oct 02 2021]
[link]
|
|
Is this going to be a security feature to exclude stupid
people from entry? |
|
|
Hmm.. this is going to be fun. |
|
|
[Spins Rubik lock to mix it up] |
|
|
[Picks little coloured plastic colour slips off] |
|
|
[Reattaches them in different places] |
|
|
There, that should do it. |
|
|
Ah yes, it would do that. I myself would thusly be excluded. |
|
|
//Not ideal for fire doors// |
|
|
So it's about eugenics then? :) |
|
|
When Rubiks' Cube came out Dad brought us back the
instructions from the US someone had figured out, so we
got a bit of a cheat head start on everyone at school for it. |
|
|
Surprisingly
simple, only something like three or four moves you need to
remember, though you do need to repeat them a lot, so it may
not be the difficult thing you want. |
|
|
[2 fries] Something like the Rubik style Babylon tower <link> is
probably more
appropriate than your link. |
|
|
Shirley that would make a better door bell. |
|
|
Well the problem with your one is you only need to be able to
recognise colours & you can solve it more or less instantly,
wouldn't even keep out the colour blind, trial & error should
get the answer pretty quickly as well, so I thought something
a
bit more 'complex' might be in order.. anyhoo, it's not got a
clapper so it can't be a bell. |
|
|
A bun, for the proper usage of the word "shibboleth". |
|
|
//it's not got a clapper so it can't be a bell// This raises worryingly shibbolethic questions. When considering a bell and its clapper, these are clearly two objects, even if they are interlocked or attached to one another. If the clapper falls out and is eaten by a passing bear, does the bell stop being a bell? (in the same way that a car stops being a car if its wheels are replaced by stacks of bricks?) But many bells don't have an attached internal clapper, being struck externally by a hammer or striker. The hammer can be attached to a frame as with clock bells or doorbells, but can also be hand-held and thus carried around. A set of bells can share a single hammer. Even if you define the word "clapper" to encompass hand-held strikers and mounted hammers, (which I think is a bit louche to be honest) you then have the problem of the hand-held striker being slipped into the pocket of the bell-tinger and taken home and borrowed by their children to use for stirring porridge (thus transforming it into a spurtle). I dispute that the existence of a spurtle in a different building from a clapper-less bell has the power to stop the bell being a bell. And even if it did, at what moment would the bell stop being a bell? Would the transformation of the striker into a spurtle propagate at the speed of light? We should set up long distance experiments to test this phenomenon. |
|
|
//does the bell stop being a bell?// |
|
|
If it's not got a clapper it's really just an odd shaped
tuning fork isn't it, one without tines, hang on, what do you
call a fork
without tines? an odd shaped tuning spoon? |
|
|
You hear people call it a bell (what we have here is
two things with the same name so yes it stops being a
bell & becomes.. a bell, which is confusing & can lead to
misplaced essays on the nature of reality & 'when is a bell
not a bell' employing completely unnecessary words
like shibboleth)
you'll hear
others call that bit the bowl. |
|
|
//shibboleth// clearly this word is part of some conspiracy
to boost
dictionary sales. |
|
|
[Idly wonders how many words bored dictionary authors
just slip in for the hell of it] |
|
|
Thanks [Voice], //proper usage of the word
"shibboleth"// |
|
|
but can I pronounce it correctly? |
|
|
[Skewed (idly wondering)] see link |
|
|
I'd not heard the phrase mountweasel before, have a bun
for that one :) |
|
|
From Wikipedia "According to the encyclopedia's editor, it is
a
tradition for encyclopedias to put a fake entry to trap
competitors for plagiarism" |
|
|
One now wonders how often that excuse gets used to cover
for
straightforward cockups & if the whole idea might not
have arisen when an editor hastily came up with it having
just been challenged on an egregiously inaccurate entry. |
|
| |