I intended to spend the day working on Translating Scripture, but somehow it didn’t happen and I’m still wondering what I actually did today. I did finish the Romanian Plan of Salvation and revise the Greek, and during intermission at the BYU Philharmonic Orchestra concert tonight I scribbled my designs for the Plan of Salvation web page on the program. I’ll create the page as soon as I send Translating Scripture to the press.
Also at the concert, halfway through Mahler’s 1st Symphony (“Titan”), I came up with an idea for a website. Being swamped with other projects, I don’t think I’ll actually have time to do it, so if anyone wants to take it and run with it, godspeed. It would be a Provo/BYU dating idea site (not an online dating site :)) using a wiki (see Wikipedia if you’re unfamiliar with the wiki concept) or something like that, and you’d be able to sort and search by category (entertainment, service, outdoors/sports, etc.), number of people (one-on-one, small group, large group), cost (including ranges), level of zaniness (need I explain? :)), distance (ideally you’d put in your location and say how far away you want to go — this’d help those who don’t have cars and have to walk everywhere), formality level (this is more for the entertainment but would let you know whether it’s formal dress or casual or whatnot), hours (when you can do it), and so on. And the community could add comments to confirm that it’s a good date idea or to point out that it’s really quite lame and ought to be heaved into the nearest garbage truck. Why a site like this? I was trying to think of creative date ideas and wanted to know what kind of service opportunities are around here (making lunches for the homeless shelter, sorting food at the food bank, reading at the hospital, etc.), and I was also wondering which of those are available at night (since the girl who’s stolen my heart is usually only available after 9 p.m.). I don’t know if there’s anything like this — probably not, especially not for the Provo area — but it’d be really handy. (Technical note: if you didn’t go with the wiki idea and instead used something similar to a blog — entries with comments attached — I’d recommend using Ruby on Rails, but that’s just an idea. I don’t know if you can actually search wikis like I’ve described here, by the way.)
[tags]Plan of Salvation, art, dating, Provo, BYU, Ruby on Rails[/tags]
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