When I was cataloguing books earlier I started thinking - where was the perfect place to put this book?
It needs to be somewhere that the book will be used, but it also needs to be the place where it should be if a teacher or student looking for that subject happened to browse the shelves. And it happened to fit into two (or possibly three) Dewey Decimal numbers. Sometimes it can be difficult to decide. Sometimes, cataloguing is an art.
Have you ever watched The Big Bang Theory? There's an episode where Sheldon decides that he will make decisions solely with a pair of dice. The dice tell him what items to choose from a menu (even though they are really weird and don't go together at all!), what kind of clothes to buy and even whether he can go to the toilet ... or not.
Depending on your point of view, this kind of decision making is pure genius, super crazy or maybe somewhere in the middle.
Watching this episode made me think of my friend's Magic 8 Ball. It was this round plastic toy which could supposedly tell you the best thing to do in any situation. You were supposed to ask a question, shake it, and then look at the little plastic window to get your reply. The answers were usually corny, things like "Signs point to yes" and "Decidedly so". Who says stuff like that? Oh yeah, Magic 8 Ball...
Everyone wanted a Magic 8 Ball - you couldn't buy them easily, only if you went overseas.
So of course, we all had to have turns using it.
Now they've made an online version. (There are lots to choose from if you'd prefer another one!)
You'll never have to think too hard about a decision again.
So, maybe I'll ask the Magic 8 Ball where to put my book. That could work, right?
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