Steal My Ideas, Please

Radical baseball idea: Make pitchers pitch. No intentional walks, fake or otherwise. Here’s how: If a batter walks on four straight pitches, he goes to second base. Or, if that’s too severe, next batter strarts with ball one. Gotta throw at least one strike to the likes of Ryan Howard. Would be good for the […]

Wonder: Is it better to take one long walk each day or lots of little hikes? The one-long daily walk sometimes leaves me tired and a bit sore. But I notice if I get up from that computer terminal and stroll a lap around the floor I feel better longer. Anybody ever run a study?

It’s ridiculous how many hidden taxes we pay. Phone taxes, gas taxes, hotel and airplane surcharges, parking meters, bridge and turnpike tolls, car registration and driver’s license fees, unemployment and Medicare deductions, even taxi taxes. Want to really spark a tax rebellion? Create a kind of spending-tracker credit card that totals all our taxes. Better […]

I’m not sure what these mean. They must have meant something when I emailed to myself for later posting. Now they’re puzzles to ponder:
Out sick on account of epiphany.
My arrogance is the only thing that saves me from you!
What if playgrounds had mood swings that changed color with your mood?

Say at work, you don’t dare get caught checking out fun stuff on the Web. That boss is so strict, well, can’t even safely check out fark.com, ESPN, blogs or film reviews. Well, somebody could create a website just for you. Go to “fooltheboss.com” and you’re instantly redirected to “seriousbusiness.com” and the title displays ”Statistical Marketing Analysis” and the big headline […]

Say you’re selling copies of your CD (like this one for my nephew Robert’s San Fran band, The Chop) but a potential fan asks, “Yeah, but what do you sound like?” Wouldn’t it be cool if your CD had a flap that played a song when opened? If this doesn’t exist, count on it, since we […]