I’ve got a Firelite portable 80-gig hard drive that I use to store a bunch of episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, thanks to the Digital Archive Project. When I want to watch one, I have to look through this list of episodes and pick one out at random to watch. The problem is that sometimes you can’t decide if a movie will be “good” to watch based on title alone, and reading the list of episodes sometimes tells you more about an episode than you wanted to know. So I put together this handy little Applescript to pick out the randomness for me! It’s quite brilliant, actually — once you’ve seen a movie then you can highlight the file with any label and it’ll skip over those until it finds one that you haven’t watched.

And yes, the name of my portable external drive is “Satellite Of Love”. I thought it was fitting.