Steal My Ideas, Please

Now I know this will sound a little … nuts / spacey / new agey / silly … you take your pick. But I had an interesting experience today. While in a store, I felt myself get quiet. Now I’m not saying relaxed or peaceful. Or mindless or egoless. No, I was just my normal self. […]

The other day my daughter, or someone she was reading, likened the future of newspapers to the fate of milkmen. They couldn’t imagine the service would fade away, but it did. Radio dramas were once popular, too, but they’re now a relic too.
But in these examples is kind of buried a lesson for newspapers: Don’t confuse […]

Idea: Combine smart and snide and make snart. Sounds kind of rude: He thinks he’s so snart.
3 drawbacks
1. Sounds too much like smart.
2. Snarky already does the trick.
3. Snart already exists, apparently, with a different meaning: “when one farts and sneezes at the same time, regardless of which causes which,” as so eloquently defined by the […]

This a wild idea. Maybe it’s more of a stunt than a service. But with the power of the Web perhaps it’s possible: A way to ship something cross-country in just one day using almost no extra energy. Really puts the UNITED in United Parcel Service. Or maybe call it the Hand-Off Shipping Network. Basically people go to […]

… if you don’t get it, you might wish for it over and over and over again.
… you might become it.
… you might do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
… it might be a trigger food and you might not be able to stop eating.
… you might get it and think, […]

I’m writing this on an Acer mini netbook I recently bought. Love its portability (2 lbs!) and affordable price ($350). Screen’s glarey in sunlight, but keyboard’s big enough for even my large paws. Anyway, for even more portability, why not invent the CompuSleeve? suggests a friend, Danielle Comisky. It’s a touch-screen computer that curls around your […]

Have tryouts to find a new Three Stooges. The national search! The embarrassing auditions where the losers can’t help coming across with dignity and intelligence! The judges … who … hit each other with seltzer and pies?
My best reality-TV idea since “Beer Factor“?

Ideally, shouldn’t every vegetable grow on vines? Like carrots. And mini-beets.  Easier to pick.
Make fruits easier to peel using banana genes. 
It would be nice to have a ripening-speed button: Slow, fast, STOP! Or at least modify fruits so they’d ripen properly after being purchased.
What if tree could move? If they could walk, you wouldn’t have to […]

Fiction tends to fall into two camps (or so I think): serious lit and fantasy/action/adventure, which includes mysteries. Romance is probably a third. But why is it you don’t see much popular fiction that’s just fun, like TV? Kind of like Two and a Half Men in print? Or Rocky and Bullwinkle? Or a Saturday […]