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 Read More …
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 Read More …
… 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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
I’m crippled by love Can’t talk, can’t get up off this couch Somebody give me a shove Cause I’m crippled by love Did she do me wrong? Maybe she did me so right I can’t get her out of my mental sight Can’t eat, can’t smoke can’t tell a joke My body’s crushed by love, like, Read More …
Here’s a weird idea. (Yes, I’m back, at least for now, after spending a bunch of months journaling and trying to straighten out my head. More on that later. Perhaps.) Too many of us just sit at work, exercising nothing but our eyes and fingers typing at computers. Earlier, I had the idea for a giant keyboard Read More …
Uh, I kind of forget to finish a puzzler I posed a while back: What’s the most a contestant could find during a normal game of Jeopardy!? Here are the parameters: During each of the first two rounds there are six categories. In the first round, each category has these amounts up for grabs: $200, Read More …
Speaking of “selfyness,” that might be stealmyideasplease’s main flaw. Even when I blogged almost daily, can’t see the site really caught on. Should have … visited other sites and linked to them, for better e-karma … figured out how to involve others more. What if, instead, anyone could post an idea? Or post links to Read More …
Ben & Jerry’s Pistachio Pistachio … what a redundant name. I know it’s like double pistachio — both nuts and ice cream — but wouldn’t Pistachio Mustachio sound more fun? Conjures up a green version of the milk mustache. OK, kind of gross … but fun.
Some people aren’t so much selfish as they are, well, selfy. To coin a word. Or at least a meaning. (Apparently a self-portrait can be a “selfy.”) Selfish people worry about getting what’s theirs, whether it’s success, adulation, money, preferential treatment. Selfy people, on the other hand, can be nice and considerate, but they’re just Read More …
If you missed the question, and want to try to solve it, go to: “Puzzle: On ‘Jeopardy!’ What’s the Max Anyone Could Win? To win the max, a player would have to question every answer correctly, and always bet the maximum on the Daily Doubles and in Final Jeopardy. The wrinkle is that each of the Daily Doubles would Read More …
Idea for an online amusement: A place where you can put anyone’s face on a famous painting. A whole gallery of paintings … all with faces that pop out. Upload your picture, position, and print. Voila! You’re in Manet’s The Picnic. Or grab a celebrity face from another gallery, and, zut alors, George Bush is Read More …