Tuesday, November 9, 2010

What's in a name?

So last night I asked the board to name one of the entities....

It was pretty interesting. At first it hit a couple of letters and then swung right to the word "wrong." It did a couple more letters, then swung back to "wrong." Finally, it gave me the following stream of letters:

EWIGCPYLDW

I have no idea.

If there's a name in there somewhere, I'll need help finding it. It could just be a grand miss. It happens. Sometimes the board is just me pushing the thing around wildly.

I was thinking this morning about how that feels. The board is getting very responsive now. It's sort of like a wooden train set that little kids play with. I know I'm pushing the thing, but it's like pushing a train along a track - the rails are dictating where it moves, not you. You're just supplying power. It's sort of like that. I'm pushing it, and then all of a sudden it veers and moves wherever it goes and I just push it forward along the track. I've even tried to actively not push it and it still goes. It's weird.

I've got another question and answer to put up here, but it's a long one so it'll get its own post. And it's another confusing one, so it'll probably be me posting, and not an official board post, while I reason it out. The board only blogs when it has something coherent to say.

Meanwhile, if anyone wants to help make sense of the letters above, I'm all for the help.