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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piet hein on randomised decisions

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping.

-- Piet Hein

Re: piet hein on randomised decisions

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

lkeele does this too, but I hadn't heard the Piet Hein bit!

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,

That's definitely my usual problem. By the time I need food I don't have a mind at all.

Re: piet hein on randomised decisions

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

It is quite possible that I came by this particular decision procedure through the poem, and quite probable that I first came by the poem thanks to hitchhiker's lovely poetry list.

Now that I've incorporated the decision procedure into my daily life, it's about time I memorized the poem.