Let’s play a game

This game is called “Enumerate the Ways in which April is Incredibly Stupid.”  For instance:

1. Choosing a CS project that is fucking impossible.
2. Being unable to figure out her CS project.
3. Somehow construing those to be not mutually exclusive.

Etc.  The first person to hit all of them wins.  In other words, this is a game with no winners.

Sorry, that wasn’t the game I meant to play.  Let’s play tic-tac-toe on a torus.  Or a Klein bottle.  Or a projective plane.  Well, actually, none of those are that interesting, as I’ve learned from a lot of drawing little squares with Xs in a state of programming-induced despair.  There are two winning strategies.

1. Go first.
2. Play against someone who doesn’t know what the hell is going on.

So let’s do something more interesting.  How about a maze?  On a Klein bottle?

I haven’t found a program on the internet for mazes on projective planes, but I did find one for, among other games, mazes on Klein bottles (one that stole my patented maze design of a mouse seeking cheese…), and having played a little, I have only this to say.

1. That shit fucks with your mind.

I no longer know what a square is.  Or my left from my right.  Let alone how to write Java code that does anything besides FAIL.  Maybe that’s why no one has done mazes on projective planes.  Their minds got so fucked up that they were never able to follow through.  Let this be a warning to you all: topology fucks you up.

I apologize for the utterly superfluous obscene language.  I’m a little upset.  Mostly because of the first game we played.

Tags: Computer Science, games, homework, stupidity, tic-tac-toe, topology