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Movie seating optimization

My fellow XKCD nerd, Dylan, brought up this xkcd comic during a recent dinner. Then he challenged me to create an analogous chart for our dinner group, one that would maximize enjoyment based on degree of familiarity. The problem is a matter of scale. Our dinner group is too friendly. Everyone knows everyone.

The people included are:

Katie H Elizabeth Brennan Kelsey Dylan Zach K
Brooke Katie M Melissa Alex Chris Zach G Greg

I leave it to you to guess which one is which. Because it protects their privacy and because it is a petty power which I can hold over your heads.

my diagram

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 11:34 pm and is filed under Day-to-Day, Inside Jokes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

9 Responses to “Movie seating optimization”

  1. Chris says:
    November 4, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    hang on… what are the dotted lines? and i think you should draw this up in paint. its really confusing by hand

    and one more thing: what the balls do you think youre doing putting me at the bottom of the list? come on tommy! were best friends!

  2. Dylan says:
    November 5, 2008 at 1:23 am

    I figured it out in 9 minutes, while I was waiting for xkcd to come up actually.

    Anyway, here is the hookah bar seating chart, i’m too lazy to actually code an image in here so….

    (1) (2) (10) (11) (3) (4)

    X X

    (13) (9) (12) (8) (7) (6) (5) (Tommy)

    This is the most socially optimal, anything else is just a resonance structure.

  3. JY says:
    November 5, 2008 at 1:28 am

    Damn it. I don’t know what’s going on.

  4. Larry says:
    November 5, 2008 at 1:39 am

    ?????

  5. Chris says:
    November 5, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    ok, i think i know what the numerical system is. and i didnt time myself but i would guess about 5-7 minutes. so suck it dylan. anyways:

    1 kelsey
    2 brennan
    3 chris
    4 melissa
    5 alex
    6 graber
    7 mcclain
    8 brooke
    9 dylan
    10 greg
    11 haas
    12 knox
    13 lizzie
    me tommy

    is this correct thomas?

  6. Dylan says:
    November 5, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    I got the same thing Chris

  7. Neal says:
    November 5, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    So Tommy, Make new friends will you?!! You’ll rue the day you ever shared a witty joke with anyone but us Herseyicans. BEGIN YOUR RUIN!!!!!!

  8. JY says:
    November 5, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    I agree with Neal. ON WITH YOUR DOOM!

  9. Tommy says:
    November 6, 2008 at 12:40 am

    I’ll keep that in mind as I sleep on your floor.

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