#2785: Marble Run
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[Megan is walking towards Cueball and showing her phone. Cueball holds a hand to his face and looks away.]
Megan: Check out this cool video of a Rube Goldberg marble run.
Cueball: No! Not yet.
[Megan has lowered her phone. Cueball has his hand in a fist.]
Cueball: I've always known I'm doomed to eventually become one of those people who builds elaborate marble runs in their garage.
Cueball: I can feel the pull.
Cueball: So satisfying.
[Close-up on Cueball.]
Cueball: I just want to do as many other things as I can before I give in and disappear into that world.
[Megan and Cueball are walking.]
Megan: So you know where you're going to end up, but you're trying to take a really interesting and circuitous path to get there.
Cueball: Exactly. Bounce around, maybe go off a few jumps.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:I have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides.