Idea Tennis
“Perhaps we could work together on something one of these days,” said a kind note from Drew Anderson of MoHDI, another ideas blog. Which gave me an idea: How about a game of Idea Tennis? You know how one idea can inspire another? Why couldn’t I lob one up, and then the ball’s in Andy’s court, to come up with a new yet somehow still related notion, then leave a link as a comment here. Two thoughts: Could be opened up to others. I mean anybody could write up a related idea, and link to it at the place where the inspiration arose. (Wouldn’t stop Andy and me from keeping the original two-way game going, of course.) Also, let’s document the “moves,” give them names like “flip” or “enlarge” or “shrink” or “cash in” or “help mankind,” and create a set of Idea Tennis cards that groups could play. Here’s my serve: The hover keg. Idea has for weeks had a picture up above, but never had an item. Of course, it would have a remote control, so it could move from room to room. Probably should be made of some lightweight material, because this sure is a lightweight idea! (Maybe that’s the first card: “Lightweight,” though “Portability” and “Convenience” fit too.)
Posted: August 5th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
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Time: August 10, 2006, 7:38 am
[…] I thought Jimmy the owner of Beullahland was going to explode on me last night when he saw I was stamping all his matchbooks with the MoHDI stamp. I was very fortunate that Jimmy was as tolorant as he was and didn’t throw me out on my ear. I do love that bar and don’t know of any other place in town I can smoke cigarettes, drink Stumptown coffee and sketch out ideas that late at night. I held off on telling Jimmy Carol’s idea of replacing his pint glasses with sippy cups at the bar. Apperently business owners might not like the idea of another business hijacking their matchbooks for advertising. I think I’ll check with Jimmy before I start stamping the toilet paper. Khris and I met tonight for our weekly MoHDI business meeting. MoHDI sure can require a lot of work. I do hope that after Khris gets back from Australia for his Mostlandia project we will be able to dedicate full time to MoHDI stuff. There are so many fantastic projects going on, we are really looking forward to being able to spend more time working on them. One of the basic ideas behind MoHDI is that “Things get done when the get done.” And we have been working hard behind the scenes to deliver some amazing products, services and ideas, it just takes some time. Mary challenged us a while ago to some sort of idea competiotion and Paul has a very slow game of tennis going with us and we have not had time to illustrate several of Carols wonderful underwear ideas. Everyday we keep getting more fantastic ideas that we can not share with you fast enough. The forums are growing slowly and we even have some people on our newsletter. The ideas come easy blogging about them seems to be the hard part. In the very near future. […]
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