Steal My Ideas, Please

Wrote this long ago. Found it filed away. (Revised 7/9/07 … by adding a helpful title)
A Day in the Not-So-Distant Future
They resisted our every advance.
They said, “Please do not take the chance!”
      But we used careful means
      To tamper with genes,
And now the smartest “men” are plants!

Who needs a bathroom scale? Nobody. Not when somebody makes and markets these handy Scale Shoes. Of course, for some people, who, how shall we say?, have trouble peering over their belts, the digital readout will have to speak. Or, since who wants everyone else to hear?, send a text message or email. Check the […]

What if … you had a very light spacecraft … OK, maybe it’s just a satellite with microchips … and suppose (yeah sure) they reallly could build a buckytube-walled space tube that’s 100 miles high … following me so far? … OK, we’ve got the outer part of our space elevator, but what’s to lift […]

First, I’m happy to say I’ve been doing some guest-blogging for inventorspot.com. Posting top-of-the-head creative exercises I call Brain Reps. Here’s my first, on inventing excuses.
Second, idea blogs finally got a little press: an article in the Spokesman Review, a Spokane, Wash., newspaper. 

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m not. And I don’t mean to pick on Marilyn vos Savant, who is almost always interesting and accurate, and never claims a record IQ brings infallibility. But I think today’s answer to a puzzle is flawed, because two answers can be right.
Here’s the puzzle:
When a prominent psychiatrist was found slimed, police questioned four patients […]