Reflexes Mini Pimp Nit
Some hours ago, I was looking through List of characters in DC Comics: D on (English) Wikipedia. So much for no Internet silliness? Well, never mind that for now... Through Two-Face (Harvey Dent) I came to the article on Flipism, an "imaginary philosophy" originating (at least according to Wikipedia, and under that name and in the exact form described they're probably right, but my guess would be that the idea is older) in an old Donald Duck comic - "Flip Decision" by Carl Barks from 1952, which also has a Wikipedia article. Have you guessed, or read, - or both - by now more or less what the basic idea of this philosophy is? (If not, I won't tell you... but you do have the links if you want to read.)
So... for reasons of my own that may or may not have something to do with the above, later in the day I decided to try a little decision making by coin toss. And I've kept it up! It's been interesting... For the technical side of it, I've been utilizing the "coin flipper" function at random.org and the American Voting Coin 2004. So, I guess you can say I've let myself be led today by George W. Bush!!! (in part at least). So, for example, I've used this method to write this post. Largely the way that I've done this has been that I've set up alternatives as to what I should write at least once for every new sentence and let the (electronic) coin decide between those; for this sentence the alternative was that it should basically say the post ended here because the coin had decided so. But now it hasn't (and of course I don't think the coin is actually making decisions, I'm not that mad, but anyway...), I'll keep on writing for a bit and see if I can get anything more interesting/amusing said about this. Yes, the madness thing (apropos that last parenthesis)... On some level I guess it's not unreasonable to think that some people would be more readily drawn to trying something like this than others and that maybe, and almost surely at least for some such people, one might be able to pick out psychological explanations that could be seen as less than flattering. Also, I suppose that it's certainly possible it could lead to sub-optimal decision making or otherwise get a little out of hand. I have a previous fascination with randomness which I won't try to find any deep psychological ground for and give here, and there was also an element of boredom involved, I think, and a feeling that I wasn't really making optimal decisions anyway (in the end often not actively deciding much at all, and not doing all that much constructive, at least). With the coin-tossing thing, when about to fall to some kind of temptation (mostly laziness) at least I would, during this experiment, force myself to take at least a 50% "risk" of replacing the "immoral" thing I was on the brink of doing and doing something better with my time instead. But the thing I think we need to remember is - however I sound in the last few sentences - just a little fun experiment that I've so far given one afternoon and evening and that I certainly have no intention of allowing to take over my life.
At this point, a coin toss tells me to "see what the time is and think about whether I shouldn't try to find a good way to end this post". Local time is 21:43 (NOW!). I do think it's sort of time to wrap this up now. So... thanks for today, hope you'll want to read next week again (if you read Swedish, otherwise I should say the week after next).
So... for reasons of my own that may or may not have something to do with the above, later in the day I decided to try a little decision making by coin toss. And I've kept it up! It's been interesting... For the technical side of it, I've been utilizing the "coin flipper" function at random.org and the American Voting Coin 2004. So, I guess you can say I've let myself be led today by George W. Bush!!! (in part at least). So, for example, I've used this method to write this post. Largely the way that I've done this has been that I've set up alternatives as to what I should write at least once for every new sentence and let the (electronic) coin decide between those; for this sentence the alternative was that it should basically say the post ended here because the coin had decided so. But now it hasn't (and of course I don't think the coin is actually making decisions, I'm not that mad, but anyway...), I'll keep on writing for a bit and see if I can get anything more interesting/amusing said about this. Yes, the madness thing (apropos that last parenthesis)... On some level I guess it's not unreasonable to think that some people would be more readily drawn to trying something like this than others and that maybe, and almost surely at least for some such people, one might be able to pick out psychological explanations that could be seen as less than flattering. Also, I suppose that it's certainly possible it could lead to sub-optimal decision making or otherwise get a little out of hand. I have a previous fascination with randomness which I won't try to find any deep psychological ground for and give here, and there was also an element of boredom involved, I think, and a feeling that I wasn't really making optimal decisions anyway (in the end often not actively deciding much at all, and not doing all that much constructive, at least). With the coin-tossing thing, when about to fall to some kind of temptation (mostly laziness) at least I would, during this experiment, force myself to take at least a 50% "risk" of replacing the "immoral" thing I was on the brink of doing and doing something better with my time instead. But the thing I think we need to remember is - however I sound in the last few sentences - just a little fun experiment that I've so far given one afternoon and evening and that I certainly have no intention of allowing to take over my life.
At this point, a coin toss tells me to "see what the time is and think about whether I shouldn't try to find a good way to end this post". Local time is 21:43 (NOW!). I do think it's sort of time to wrap this up now. So... thanks for today, hope you'll want to read next week again (if you read Swedish, otherwise I should say the week after next).