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Advantages of end grain?
  Easier on knives, "self healing" (grain closes up after cut, doesn't wear down as easily)
Maple seems to be the thing in high-end boards (+ walnut, ironwood)
  https://www.cuttingboard.com/blog/why-is-maple-the-most-popular-wood-for-cutting-boards/
  Go with lighter maple with a darker maple/walnut/cherry border
    Actually, fuck that, go with a single color at first, then give away/sell if I make a better one
  Or, use something with an interesting end grain
  Where to source?
    https://www.woodworkersinstitute.com/forum/food-safe-wood_topic1688.html
Adhesive?

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The first Ruby Quiz (http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz1.html) has you implement
Bruce Schneier's Solitaire cipher in Ruby. This hand cipher uses a standard
deck of cards as the encryption key as well as to perform the cipher operations.
 
Today's exercise is to implement a Deck class representing a physical deck of
cards. It should have the following properties:
  It contains an ordered list of 54 cards: numbered 2..10, face cards JQKA, and 2 differentiable jokers
  A specific order can be specified when the deck is created
  Cards have numeric values:
    Clubs    A2..10JQK: 1-13

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---
:backtrace:      true
:benchmark:      false
:update_sources: true
:verbose:        true
:sources:
  - http://rubygems.org/

install: --no-rdoc --no-ri
update:  --no-rdoc --no-ri

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require 'yaml'

# parse YAML words list to a Ruby object
words = YAML.load(%Q{
adj1:
- super
- hyper
- ultra
- legendary
- robotic