Comments on: Things, organized neatly: a kentucky site for knollers

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:48:00 +0000

Just look at it.

By: brianseye

brianseye — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:09:00 +0000

As one who lives in the state of Kentucky, I’ve never seen “Kentucky” used as an adjective before … Is this a British usage that I, and Merriam Webster are unaware of? Please define.

By: Sparg

Sparg — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:37:00 +0000

I go with size, then subject, to fit/fill the shelf. Most of these are grammars and dictionaries Looks like the closer to my chair, the more organized.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:51:00 +0000

I arrange books by color. It seems like the easiest way to find a book when I want it.

By: Bill Olson

Bill Olson — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:23:00 +0000

Those chaotic bundles of wires are making me reach for a pistol.

By: Clifton

Clifton — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Thank you! Maybe we can start a tumblr for people who just heap things up in a big pile.

I saw the face too; I would say the RepRap has very mixed feelings about the experience.

By: Garymon

Garymon — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:25:00 +0000

On the tumblr, the photo with the three spoons, the right most leaf is not center. Also the picture of the paint rollers, the handle of the one around 2 o’clock sticks out. My teeth also itch. but overall I like this tumblr.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:01:00 +0000

One of my children was left by aliens. Or some such….she’s unlike anyone else in the family. After months of viewing her books strewn all over the floor of her room after we moved, I was struck by a moment of brilliance: I suggested that she arrange the books on her bookcase by color. Yes, my inner being shriveled to the size and aridity of a forgotten raisin rolled underneath the refrigerator. But within days, all the books were up. I can do nothing but shake my head in disbelief whenever I go in there. Who the hell arranges books by color?

Aliens, apparently.

By: Shane Fitzpatrick

Shane Fitzpatrick — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:43:00 +0000

This made my day, that’s my picture of RepRap parts. I straightened up the bearings on the left and adjusted the spacings between photos but then submitted the wrong photo to TON.

Thanks BB!

By: relawson

relawson — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:42:00 +0000

I love to knoll when cooking and fixing a laptop… other than that, just put it all in a pile ;)

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:20:00 +0000

I decided to organize mine by date, but the problem was that some don’t have it on the copyright (and then some are the same year, etc). But then I joined discogs and once I got everything entered in the machine did all the thinking I didn’t need to do.

Except for the obscure ones that are more likely to not have the date on them.

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:13:00 +0000

I feel no impuse to knoll, thankfully. It’s only by piling things up that I have room to get things done.

The face in the upper-right corner of that pic is creeping me out, though.

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:04:00 +0000

http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/images-to-make-perfectionists.html

By: Egypt Urnash

Egypt Urnash — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:00:00 +0000

arrgh I saw this and had to knoll everything on my recently-cleaned desk. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFIag9zCEAAVP9b.jpg:large

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:46:00 +0000

The music collection from March 6 is unusually psychotic. Who arranges their records by sleeve-spine hue?

Oh. Of course. You do.

Rather attractive. And I begin to see the sense of it all.

[flees]

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:41:00 +0000

Those kooky little cylinders along the left edge that vaguely resemble hydraulic lifters out of an old Ford V8 are bugging me. But not intolerably so.

By: BDiamond

BDiamond — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:10:00 +0000

Not everything is lined up perfectly (for example, the pink packets in the lower left corner) and it’s making my teeth itch.

By: igpajo

igpajo — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:54:00 +0000

I remember seeing a tumblr that was a bunch of pictures that were designed to make a person with OCD crazy… Basically like the above, pictures of things organized in nice neat rows or patterns, but with one little thing just slightly off. Pretty funny.

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:51:00 +0000

Do these examples count? AFAF.
http://eusa-riddled.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/a-transparent-attempt-to-initiate.html

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:56:00 +0000

You cannot “knoll” food dammit, I have not been knolling every time I bake cookies that happen to be in line on a sheet. You crazy, crazy bastards.

By: Benjamin Rockhold

Benjamin Rockhold — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:52:00 +0000

You know you’re _too_ into 3D printers when you recognize the model from just the ratios of the rods in in the top 1/6th of the picture.

By: Punchcard

Punchcard — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:36:00 +0000

So. This is what OCD porn looks like. Huh.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:24:00 +0000

I’ve tried doing this but trying to get everything to line up made me mad enough to flip a table.