I *was* going to mention the wonderful app version for iPad and iPhone of Tom Phillips's "A Humument", which features a well-implemented random "Oracle Feature". However, it seems it is no longer available in the App Store, apparently because it was very much an in-house development, and the TP studio lacked the expertise to keep up with Apple's infuriating tendency to introduce OS upgrades that are not backwardly compatible with older software.
I hope the fate revealed by your chartomancy was benign, or at least suitably ambiguous. My feeling is that you probably ought to convert your pinpricks into six-figure OS grid references, and pass them through an alphanumeric decoding system, ideally similarly derived by random selection. Give chance a chance!
That is hilarious: he really fended you off with a big stick, didn't he? I'm a huge admirer of TP's work, but I suspect he would be a classic case of "never meet your heroes"...
I *was* going to mention the wonderful app version for iPad and iPhone of Tom Phillips's "A Humument", which features a well-implemented random "Oracle Feature". However, it seems it is no longer available in the App Store, apparently because it was very much an in-house development, and the TP studio lacked the expertise to keep up with Apple's infuriating tendency to introduce OS upgrades that are not backwardly compatible with older software.
I hope the fate revealed by your chartomancy was benign, or at least suitably ambiguous. My feeling is that you probably ought to convert your pinpricks into six-figure OS grid references, and pass them through an alphanumeric decoding system, ideally similarly derived by random selection. Give chance a chance!
Mike
Interesting about the app no longer being available -- locked now in the past. I didn't know that.
This has some funny moments:
http://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument/essays/item/5859-tom-phillips-an-interview-by-adam-smyth
That is hilarious: he really fended you off with a big stick, didn't he? I'm a huge admirer of TP's work, but I suspect he would be a classic case of "never meet your heroes"...
Mike