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On a dorkiness level of 1 to 10, please rate this idea

Posted by ty97 Jun 2 '10, 12:28

I was thinking of organizing my books into color groups, than writing a randomization program that will, upon each run of the program, output two items
1. A Color (red, blue, white, green, etc)
2. Fiction or Non-fiction.

These two items would combine to tell me which of my books to read next (example: a green non-fiction book).

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Better idea: Start them all and finish the ones you want to read. - OAE Jun 2, 12:45 2
- That doesn't address the core point of a method to select one to start. - ty97 Jun 2, 12:51 1
  - the one you most want to read? -- nm - loosilu Jun 2, 13:02
dude, that goes to 11. -- nm - loosilu Jun 2, 12:35 11
- No, eleven would be creating a robot to scan, index, and OCR the entire collection. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:36 10
  - I feel like a geek failure because I neve felt the desire to build a robot. -- nm - ty97 Jun 2, 12:48 2
    - what you need to fo is buy a robot to build all the other robots you want. - zdroid Jun 2, 12:54
    - I have had a huge upswing in interest lately. That quadrotor flying helicopter demo video that was going around was something else. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:49
  - ... and then create a relational graph of how similar the books are to one another, so that polar opposite books could be read in sequence -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:37 6
    - you've considered this, haven't you? -- nm - loosilu Jun 2, 12:41 5
      - only just now. I tend to overthink things. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:42 4
        
        No! -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 12:43 3
        
        What did you think of my B2 suggestion re: your killers/knight and day article? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:45 2
        
        I think you should leave the writing to the writers. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 12:50 1
        
        fair enough. I just think the ironic implication of subtlety would play nicely with the movie's lack thereof. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:51
OMG, that's just sick, a perversion, an abomination! -- nm - mara Jun 2, 12:34
Assuming 10 is the most dorky: 9. (nm) - musubi Jun 2, 12:34
Why is this more fun than, say, putting all their titles into a hat? -- nm - TFox Jun 2, 12:34 4
- Because it gives me an excuse to write code. -- nm - ty97 Jun 2, 12:49
- "titties" -- nm - what loosi saw Jun 2, 12:36 1
  - those are some shitty titties, if they all fit inside a hat. -- nm - TFox Jun 2, 12:37
- Science! -- nm - Slightly forlorn mad scientist Jun 2, 12:35
don't worry, Max reset the book organizing scale for all time, so that ranks low -- nm - crash davis Jun 2, 12:32
If I read correctly, somebody is trying this at Mara's library. -- nm - pmb Jun 2, 12:32 1
- L3 -- nm - SyrDragon Jun 2, 12:34
not dorky, geeky. -- nm - b. Jun 2, 12:32 1
- heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Jun 2, 12:34
I arranged my DVDs by colour once. It looked neat but it was impossible to find anything. -- nm - Reagen Jun 2, 12:31 1
- Priorites, darling. -- nm - Fernando Jun 2, 12:34
autobiographically -- nm - Rob Gordon Jun 2, 12:30
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You have that many books that you haven't read yet? 7. -- nm - JaxSean Jun 2, 12:29
you really do get bored when at home huh. - Epiphany Jun 2, 12:28
sounds discriminatory! -- nm - Beaker Jun 2, 12:28
8 -- nm - Krusty Jun 2, 12:28

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