Oblique Strategies

[robin]

Tom Anderson <twic at urchin.earth.li> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, robin wrote:
>
>> The Oblique Strategies were originally a set of one-hundred cards, each 
>> bearing a short phrase. They were devised by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt 
>> as ways of working through creative problems. When a blockage occurs, 
>> draw a card, and see if it can direct you in a tangential way that helps 
>> solve the problem.
>
>Neat!
>
>I can't help but feel that putting the strategies in a file and using 
>'fortune' to pick them would have been slightly simpler, but since i don't 
>actually seem to have fortune on my machine, i'm actually rather happy 
>that you've done this.

The best things about this approach are that code and data are in one
file and you don't need to be on a machine with fortune. (My machines
seem to mostly have misfortune, aka Windows.)

I'm happy how Python reduces most small problems down to the most
trivial of exercises. This is less a program than a list of text
strings.

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robin
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