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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2316 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 6, 2025

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So I've been getting an ad on Xitter for a tiny bookshelf with a whole lot of fake books you can organize. Then you can dump it out and organize them again.

This blew my mind because it never occurred to me that this was an activity people enjoy.

I just assumed that people who alphabetized their CDs (dating myself here) just never did the math on how often they actually search for a random CD by name.

Does anyone good stories about seeing a product that made them realize their failures at modelling the minds of others?

I think it scratches the same itch as things like lego building, if that helps your mental model at all.

Have you ever read High Fidelity? The protagonist is an obsessive collector of vinyl records, and whenever he's going through a major life upheaval, he reorganises his records as a therapeutic exercise. At the very start of the novel his girlfriend breaks up with him, so he immediately begins reorganising his records - but in a break from tradition, he does so not in alphabetical or chronological order, but autobiographical: the chronological order in which he bought them.

i love that book

The chronological or purchase order make a lot more sense to me. The only issue I can see is that I might not remember buying some of them.

he doesn't remember when he bought some of the records he owns

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