Wheel of Lunch

[cjsmith]

Can't decide where to eat? (and you're in the USA, I presume)? Grab the Wheel of Lunch and give it a spin!

I will not publicly admit that I have a shellscript to do the same thing. If I did have such a script, its database would be populated only with restaurants I happened to like, all near my current place of work, and I would be about half way through implementing "attributes" such as "quick" or "inexpensive" -- but only if I had such a script. Of course I don't. Only a computer geek type of person would have such a thing.

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[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

If you had such a script, then this icon would be appropriate. But since you don't, it's wholly out of place.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

What is it about geeks and inability to decide where to have lunch? At my previous company we all used to stand around muttering "I don't know, where do YOU want to eat?" for about ten minutes, which is how long it took us to default to Thai Spoons yet again.

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

Back in college, after Star Trek ended on Sunday afternoons, a group of 8-16 people would form up to try and figure out where to go to dinner. I know you can imagine exactly how well that went. Vegetarians, limited drivers, blah, blah, blah.

When I first encountered "Pizza Dictator" with the Frisch gaming group, I thought it was the most brilliant application of game theory I'd ever seen. If you are not familiar with this algorithm, maybe we can get joedecker to explain it. He has more experience with it than I do.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If it's the algorithm Joe once explained to me, I love it. Could really suck for one vegetarian in a group of ten carnivores, but otherwise, it's fabulous!