Puzzle Master Wei-Hwa Huang's Blog Account of "Day in the Clouds"

"Day in the Clouds," The Virgin America + Google in-flight internet gaming competition we published a BB Video piece about today, netted yet another honor for multiple world puzzle championship Winner Wei-Hwa Huang. He's shown above, on our flight, using one of the tools of his win: a notebook. Not the notebook computer, a notebook.

He has an extensive blog post about his experience at the event here, which includes the impossibly awesome phrase "Parallel slave processor friends," used to describe his seat-mates, off whom he bounced thoughts as he sorted out answers.

My favorite part of his post? The lyrics he wrote as an answer for one of the puzzles. You should read the whole entry, because it's rare to read such a subjective, intimate account of how genius prepares for a competition in his field. But, I have to just blog the song he wrote, here:

Enjoy the world
with the day in the cloud
Never be bored
and say this aloud:

Everything is connected
when you live in the clouds
Every line is expected
when you live in the clouds

Everyone can do it
no matter your status
have fun anywhere
while flying through a stratus!

Everything is awesome
when you live in the clouds
Everything and then some
can be found in the clouds

Don't worry so
about problems in flight,
Because you know
Everything's going to be all right!

Day in the Cloud -- Virgin America Flight 921 (Onigame livejournal; image via Virgin America)

[#1 posted by pelrun, June 25, 2009 9:21 PM]

Xeni, do I *really* have to be punished with seeing the same post three times just because I read all of BB, BBG and Offworld?

[#2 posted by Antinous / Moderator, June 25, 2009 9:32 PM]

Has it, um, occurred to you to, er, skip a post that you've, ah, already read?

[#3 posted by oasisob1, June 26, 2009 12:26 AM]

RSS bookmarks in Firefox: Only read the posts you want to read!

[#4 posted by pelrun, June 26, 2009 1:42 AM]

But if you're going to put the same posts on all three blogs, why have three blogs in the first place? I just don't see how this post is important enough to pop up verbatim three times.

[#5 posted by reesemlm, June 26, 2009 6:50 AM]

maybe it's on all 3 blogs to promote virgin airlines and climate change even more? yay planes!

[#6 posted by dculberson, June 26, 2009 7:24 AM]

Maybe it's for people other than you. Or maybe it's specifically to annoy you!

Is scrolling really that hard? An additional click gonna give you carpal tunnel?

If the remote is on the coffee table and a commercial comes on, do you whine until someone else hands it to you?

[#7 posted by pelrun, June 26, 2009 8:19 AM]

I don't see how my browsing interface has anything to do with my point. But sure, harp on that if you want to avoid the question.