I scrambled this cube and put number stickers on it so I can solve it either by colors or numbers. The number solution is obviously much harder. It's been a pretty neat challenge. Sometimes I just keep going back and forth without actually scrambling it. Solving it also scrambles it.
I first solved the cube in 1980, and these are some of my oldest ones. The first is a Chex cube that I got around 1981 by sending in box tops. The Rubik's World is the first version, from 1982. I think years later they made a 2x2 version, but this is 3x3. The last one might be my original cube, but I just don't remember. It has the old orientation of green opposite yellow, blue op. white, and red op. orange. That was the original format I got used to, and I didn't get the modern format until many years later, so that was a big adjustment. I was actually angry that they changed it. I kept looking for old-format cubes, but everything had switched to how it is now. Eventually, I just got used to the "new" way. Anyway, I can truly say to people, "I've got Rubik's cubes older than you!" I'm 56, BTW.
I was so confused when I started watching this video because it sounded like someone else was in the studio singing badly in English, kind of in a mocking way. I checked to make sure it was NMixx's channel and not a joke channel. I even wondered if they had gotten hacked or something. I figured out that it was an AI feature on youtube that translates in real time and makes an AI voice instead of showing text. It seems okay when someone is talking, but the real gold is when it translates singing and tries to sing itself. This feature was turned on by default, at least for me. You can go to the settings of the video and toggle between an audio track in Korean or English. The English track is the ridiculous AI. Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK_wwh5gTA
Today I went into a Saver's Thrift store in Georgia, USA, and the second I walked in, Blue Valentine started from the beginning. I'm so used to hearing it, it took me a second to realize I'm hearing it in public. It's only the second time I've heard kpop in public around here. The first was Loona's Star, heard in Wal Mart.
I was using the digital TV on the right when I happened to have the Orion on the left plugged in. I found that the digital TV's remote will control the Orion CRT. I'm not sure if this info helps anyone find a remote for their CRT, but the Orion model number is TV1334, and the Insignia is NS-19E310NA15. The Insignia remote's model number is NS-RC4NA-14.