fine whine

I'm not finished with my bracket programming by a long stretch. There's no way to save the page, it's still gigantic, and frankly I'd much rather play with it than fix it.

I find interesting connections between the contenders. Sometimes the two share stars (I've battled over both Tim Robbins and Dustin Hoffman*, among others) or themes, or sometimes just the year they were released, but no matter which two are randomly picked, it's still fun to pick one over the other.

With that, I can add this to my ever-expanding list of programming projects I've begun and abandoned. The script that grabs the first titles, even, is among them. I've intended for some time to have all sorts of interesting lists and polls and links created from the movies I've seen and want to see, but so far have only been able to grab the raw data and effectively sit on it.

But I don't intend to give up on this yet. Maybe I'll dub it the 'bracketeer' and devote a directory of my site for it, for anyone to come and pick from the movies I've seen, or even enter a new list to rank--basketball teams, crayon colors, anything. It's just a matter of further cleaning up the code, and making it easier to use.

Hmmm, the bracketeer. I like the ring of that, I think.

* Wag the dog beat Stray dogs.