A book called The Dice Man. This is not a biography on (ugh) Andrew Dice Clay. Instead this is a novel by Luke Reinhart, which has a simple premise, with far reaching effects: Make every decision by the roll of dice.

The book itself can be a little hard to read sometimes. Not hard use-too-many-big-words-hard... not hard slogging-through-the-council-of-elrond-hard... but requim-for-a-dream-watching-it-fall-apart-hard.

That being said, I am going to give dicelife a try. Not to the extent of a fictional character in a book written in the 70's, but for a few decisions, why not? (see the sidebar for an example).

My plan? On the way to and from work, make some more dice decision points, and build a dice roller in scheme. I wonder if I can get random background IR radiation from the IR port somehow..? At any rate, watch this space for the scheme source, (and a Palm resource File).

And yes... most die decisions will be trivial. I don't plan on letting a plastic cube, or a few lines of scheme determine major decisions in my life.