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Graph of Desire by Optical Dave
February 17th, 2008 4:44 PM
-It is rarely a good idea to start a task that will take obsessive control of your life for a week and start having a relapse of blinding migraines at the same time.
-Logging your desires does not necessarily make you more likely to promptly satsify them. Or, at least, it doesn't make me more likely to.
-Hourly checks begin to grate after a while.
-8x24x7=1388, which is rather more than I bargained for when I came up with this.
-I keep strange hours.
For this task, I thought that I would have to, to satisfactorily create a 'graph' of desire, take readings for all my main desires over a period of time, then plot all of these against each other. Otherwise, surely, it'd be more of an average ratio of my desires, rather than a graph. Thus, for a week, I decided to take values out of ten for eight basic human desires every hour on the hour (or as close as possible to on the hour - stupid school), then plot the results. These desires are as follows:
Food
Drink
Sleep
Fun
Society
Progress/Achievement
Comfort/Contentment
Money
NB: If an hour rolled around when I was asleep, I took a basic template reading for that hour, maximising my desires for sleep and comfort, and minimising all others.
There are 73 separate graphs attending this completion, so if you can wade through them all, I applaud you, and thank you for your commitment. That said, roll on the show!
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No desire for sex? (Or drugs and rock´roll? Unless all that goes under fun...) How come you get any desire for money while at home? (and why it goes up in the afternoon?).
Lots of work, gets one dizzy. I guess you even considered plotting the desire to drop the task altogether.
Crazy amount of work, nicely done. For those of you who want more broad conclusions, just look at the last 10 pictures or so, they're averages.
@Augustus: Yes, and all my conclusions are in the captions to the last 10 graphs. But read through them all, anyway, It's a rollercoaster ride of inadvisable fun.
But not really.
But do.
@Susy: Well, I only plotted eight because any more would have meant even more graphs. And that would be stupid.
I'm wondering if there were any conclusions you were able to draw from all that info?