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That is *so* something that EM would say.
And yes, JWM needs more cryptic in his life. :)
jjason's delivery is awesomely hilarious. :)
I have Plans(TM) and we even got some supplies for it. We were going to work on this on Sunday, but then we were distracted by the evil and nefarious Sunday Afternoon Nap, so that plan got nixed.
Fortunately, this Sunday should be after the Interregnum. :)
Normally I wouldn't comment, but since you asked...
I'm even newer to this game than you are, so here's a box -full- of salt shakers. :) Like, really *large* salt shakers. Overflowing with salt. Okay, you get the idea. :)
To me, the best tasks (and best completions of tasks) involve:
* original work,
* effort, and
* other people.
Linking paperclips is not very original for me, which is not the end of what you did. You then moved onto a design/shape/etc, is. Spelling out "SF0" is not a bad baseline to get a sense of scale, but I'd prefer to see something more original. For this, you have my sympathy: I'm *terrible* at coming up with original ideas. It's not like I'm looking for something Epic and Groundbreaking and Earth-Shattering. For instance, the first thought that popped to mind was "oooh, tinsel for a tree". :) (Hardly a tour de force of breathtakingly insightful artistic vision *snerk* but then again, we can't take ourselves -too- seriously.)
Effort: 2 hours of linking, followed by deployment? Okay, got this. :)
Involves people: well, interacting with librarians who say "no, don't put that in here" doesn't qualify for me. Deploying the paper clips in a space that people would appreciate would qualify. For smaller scales, asking people a question about the task would qualify. (Hmm, a task proposal I submitted fails in this regard. I should fix that.)
Naturally, the documentation has to reveal all of this, which I think can be very hard. I'm terrible at documenting things.
So I feel like you're 90% there. I like the core idea, and where it's going, and I definitely approve of the enthusiasm. Woot! But I'm looking for something else to be added to this. You have the luxury of not having to play the gedankenspiel of "What would I do with a chain of a thousand paper clips?"; you get to do it in real life. :)
Caveat: I'm a fairly conservative judge. I'm totally the type of person who'd rate the Mona Lisa as a 9 out of 10. :) So just because I am a Somewhatgrouchy Bunnydragon doesn't mean you should take me too seriously; listen to rongorongo instead. :)
Neat. :)
The panties thing is both surreal and amusing. :)
You used stickers?
I guess that makes me go "hmm", because it's not reverseable, which I advocate as being important for stuff like this.
It does lead to an interesting conundrum: if it's trivially reversable (by having a slip of paper being thrown out), is it worth doing?
I do like the basic idea, though. :)
How... interesting. In a good way, especially with the commentary. :)
Is it okay if we're laid-back taskers in Boston? :)
Okay, now this is for real. :)
Oh, and this isn't actually my own creation. I think I said that somewhere, but well, I wanted a placeholder image during the Interregnum.
Hmmm now to create something myself for the next era, hmmm.... *twiddles fingers* hmmm I wonder if I can get away this idea, hmm... :)