fighting the lack of good ideas
I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on TV Land when my aunt called asking me to turn on CNN and tell her what was going on. I saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV. And I had probably seen or heard both planes earlier in the morning, because…
Figures, what I thought was a new idea isn’t. I love my DVR, but would likewise love a Digital Radio Recorder so I could pause and rewind ‘live’ radio. With a bit of Googling, I found the Shark (see here). The only improvement I could see would be to get something like this into a…
I got this passed to me from my dad this morning. Just remember what he told me, “I don’t promise greatness. Just interest.” The following is a Robin Hood quote: R’N TVGGRMT NZIIRVW. R DZMG GL YV ZM RM-OZD, MLG ZM LFGOZD. I’ll post the answer in about a day, unless somebody posts it first.
[This is the transcript of what I planned to say (but didn’t) at my aunt‘s funeral] How many of you only knew Cindy? Go ahead, raise your hands. Good. Ok – you all know me as “Mike”. Put your hands down. The rest of you know me as Warren. Either way, I’m her nephew. Cindy…
I was watching a recorded edition of Beyond Tomorrow (from Science Channel) and saw an awesome-looking motorcyle helmet, the Reevu. It has a series of polycarbonate reflectors that take light coming into the helmet from the back, reflect it over the rider’s head, and display it on a small mirror just above the visor in…
Apparently, the CERN Large Hadron Collider will be turned on soon. That’s cool, because way back when I graduated highschool, I worked as an intern directly manufacturing some components that went into the prototype, and might even be used in the real thing. Now some genius in Europe has filed a lawsuit, claiming that the…
Full transcript – again, Mr Carlin, you are missed. You got people like this around you? Country is full of them now! People walking around all day long, every minute of the day — worried about EVERYTHING! Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil. Worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives,…