Random thoughts

Nowzac, the drug that puts you in the moment, nicknamed "the Now Zone". Leaves you totally focuses in a Rain Man sort of way on what's immediately in front of you. Other pills for zapping short-term memory (forget that disaster date forever!) or for having an eidetic memory for a couple of days, the ideal college cram drug.

How stoopid izzat? He sticks his gum onna unnerside of a glass table.

The woman kept hooting and hollering through the entire concert. I hadn't heard a racket like that since the neighbor's great dane passed a kidney stone.

"Guysa" for the fellows who are smart enough to be in Mensa, but aren't stuck up about it.

To walk while talking
Yet no one is there -- insane?
No, just a cell phone.

Characters for the Novel "Not til Death Did We Part"
Felice -- Fluff romance novel writer
Roger -- Historical fiction writer, obsessed with Jimmy Hoffa
Sandy -- Writes hard sci-fi that never makes sense
Tom -- Writer of murder mysteries that are usually dead on arrival
Martha -- Writes poetry so bad, she can't find a poetry group that will admit her

Capitalism: an economic system that generates material wealth while causing catastrophic ecological damage.

Communism: an economic system that generates abject poverty while causing catastrophic ecological damage.

The "Maybe Good Enough Sort Algorithm" An algorithm that provides an approximate ordering, this algorithm getint about 90% of the elements into some sort (haha) of order. Has the dubious advantage of providing a "good enough" result quickly.

iPad Wands or Wii Sticks Small rods that give positional feedback. With five, there'd be one for each finger. Okay, K'nect may be a better answer.

http://all-story.com

http://www.pshares.org

There are few things you can't do in C++. Writing correct code is one of them.

 

Stupid product idea: a chamber into which a person inserts their hand and gains tactile feedback from a stream of small pellets that push against the skin with programmatically controlled forces and vectors. On the one hand, what could possibly go wrong? On the other hand, there may be no market for it, but it might make a cool art fixture.

 

Stupid product idea: for race cars, wheels that thread onto the axle in the reverse direction to the line of forward motion. The hope is that by simply reversing the direction with sudden torque, the wheel would pop off more rapidly than can be done with the traditional lugnut approach. You could even lock the wheels in place, put the car in reverse and "back up" a little bit to get them started. Once again, what could possibly go wrong?

Maybe not stupid product idea: a trash chute for apartment buildings that can identify items on the fly (haha) and bat them into an appropriate bin for recycling, composting or landfill.