Steal My Ideas, Please

Tony gets religion. Or at least he decides to turn to God. He begs for forgiveness, promising to start his life over again. It starts to rain, and the water trickles off his face as if he’s being baptised. Then he’s hit by lightning, charring him to a crisp. The long arm of justice. The ultimate “hit.”
Then Tony […]

They’re bikes made entirely of recycled parts. Metal cans, plastic jugs, car tires.

Option One: Have NINE pitchers who each pitch THREE innings every THREE games
Option Two: Have EIGHT pitchers who each pitcher FOUR or FIVE innings every FOUR games.
Option Three: Have SIX guys who pitch SIX innings every SIX games AND ONE OR TWO innings halfway inbetween.
Option Four: Use a phase-in system, when you start by replacing […]

If we’re headed toward keeping track of everything (see Google item below), more people will feel so stifled, they’ll want secrecy technology. They’ll want NOT to be know, NOT to be found. So imagine Hide & Sneak devices that lie to global positioning systems. By hacking, overriding, discombubulating, jamming, whatever … you’ll be able to tell […]

Everything will be cliche.

Seriously. As image screen gets thinner and lighter, first newspapers and magazines will get replaced by e-paper, which folds and unfolds and presents images in infinite formats. Then people will say, cool! I want to wear this stuff, and they’ll make clothing that displays any image you want. Your hat can show the Mona Lisa […]

Every appliance, every car, every person will come with a chip that wirelessly connects to the Internet. Then you’ll be able to Google everything in the world. Who else can has a Zearz Biogoat Grass-Chewing Mower? You can find out and contact them, form a club. Lose something in your house? Google it! Want to […]

Entropy. The state where all energy dispenses to the point of random pointlessness. Or something like that. With millions of bloggers and thousands of news services and hundreds of social networking sites (not just digg and del.ico.us and fark but combos), is the Web becoming such a crowded chaos, it’ll be harder and harder to be […]

Cerealism: (1) An art movement in which flakes, O’s, puffs and other crispy shapes are used in collage, painting and other forms of artwork. (2) A brand of breakfast cereal that uses symbols and imagery from surrealistic works of art, like the melted clocks in Salvadore Dali’s The Persistence of Memory. (3) A philosophy in which life is likened to packaged […]

Lots of sites, like Netflix, try to predict from past behavior and preferences what you might like next. But, frankly, sometimes I’m just sick of the same old stuff and want some surprises. So, Netflix, if you had a “Change Up” or “Change of Pace” button, mining a category or genre I usually avoid, I’d click. Find […]

Why don’t people make “snow angels” in sand … on grass … in cornfields? (”I tell you, Marge, some aliens made flattened 40 stalks again last night.”)  Make a “crop angel” … turn your body 90 degrees, and repeat — you have a “crop circle.”
And what other designs could a sitting or lying person make in […]

No, can’t say that. (Similarities can always be coincidence, not just the sincerest form of flattery.) But I came across two other “Steal My Ideas” sites. Cool!
Steal My Ideas: It’s Like I Rubbed My Brain All Over This Thing: Paul Bertino’s brain rubbings include some evolving Jesus mystery painting (Jesus as the Grim Reaper?), a […]

Loved the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. It explores the mystery of how, sometimes, we just have a deep understanding instantly. In some cases, there’s a wellspring of knowledge and expertise that bubbles up. In others, in chaotic moments of danger, we just know to react.
Since reading it, I’ve strived to trust my initial judgments more, […]

Here’s another way to improve boxing. Or at least create a kind of added interest. Four heavy punching bags swing from the ceiling along the ropes. So gotta look out! Don’t backpedal too much! Don’t think you can run and hide! Or WHOOOMP! Down you go. Shudda watched where you wuz going.

SPOILER ALERT, PART 3: As the release of Harry Potter 7 approaches (July 21), I’ve been theorizing about the biggest mystery of the series: How did Harry become “The Boy Who Lived,” not just surviving a killing curse but somehow causing it to rebound against its perpetrator, Lord Voldemort, destroying his body and exiling what was left […]