Just finished this Google U.S. Puzzle Championship thingie. I felt pretty good until after the test is over and I found some very stupid mistakes. It's not like it's an error in solving the puzzles, it's like I solved these puzzles and entered the answers incorrectly... For example, puzzle 3, I forgot to cross out one of the words that I used already, and ended up entering that word as the enter. Wrong. Also, for puzzle 12, they want us to enter the numbers not used in each row, but I misread that as enter the number of numbers not used in each row... So anyway, the 130 points worth of puzzle that I solved end up being no more than 95... Oh well, I guess there's always next year.

I had one of those "ring a bell" thing after the test was over. I somehow remember a guy named Craig Kaplan on the results of previous WPC tests. I checked it, and indeed his name came up in the result of the past few years. Then I realize, hey, there is a Craig Kaplan in our university! He's a cs guy who does graphics... Anyway, that's just one of those strange moments where two parts of my brain finally connect to each other.

Well, that's a start to the lonely weekend...