YOUR BIG IDEA

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i'm convinced that just about everybody out there comes up with at least one good idea... and in the imperial spirit of the holiday tradition i give you my one BIG idea... (yes, even better than chocolate chip cookie dought sashimi)... the Treecycle:

http://www.shapeshifting.org/images/pix/treecycle.jpg

so what's YOUR big idea?
m.

― msp (mspa), Sunday, 18 December 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

i've had a number of them! i can't remember one now though :(

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 18 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

WHAT ARE YOU, DR SEUSS?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

oh... no big idea then, eh? give it a few years.
m.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 19 December 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

coffee grinder/alarm clock

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 December 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

pet punk rocks

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Monday, 19 December 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

anti-viagra: a poppable-pill that gives you an instant softy and oils the proverbial penis-waters (guaranteed) for the next 1-3 hours.

― remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 19 December 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Scented shower curtains.
Glow-in-the-dark shower curtains.
Shower curtains with pockets.
Shower curtains with NFL logos.
Shower curtains that change color with hot steam.
Shower curtains that work like those cocktail glasses where the ladies lose their clothes.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 19 December 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

Any of you steal any of those shower curtain ideas and profit, I'll find you and I'll kill you.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 19 December 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

I was going to make a shower curtina by sandwiching little plastic toys between two plastic sheets but I ended up using the resulting paste in a sandwich

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 19 December 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

spinning rims with knives on - Sprewell meets Boadicea

― autovac (autovac), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

i don't know anyone that takes a shower in the dark. maybe it would be fun. the color changing shower curtain sounds great!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 19 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

The glow-in-the-dark shower curtain is a substitute for a night light. It saves up daylight and lamplight all day long, and then at three in the morning when you go take a pee, you've got a 48 sq. ft NIGHTLIGHT guiding you to the can.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

http://fileserver1.jpghosting.com/images/hayguys_f3f5cc0ec898ac813e933763512a2fec.jpg

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 19 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

"The glow-in-the-dark shower curtain is a substitute for a night light. It saves up daylight and lamplight all day long, and then at three in the morning when you go take a pee, you've got a 48 sq. ft NIGHTLIGHT guiding you to the can."

and then you're drunk and stumble and fall into the shower and get wrapped in curtain and then go stumbling through your house moaning with a glow in the dark NFL shower curtain scaring those meddlesome kids!~~~~~~~~~)

yeah okay.

i like the invention of the cute animal jaypeg to spread joy.
m.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 19 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

im clearly not thinking enough

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/12/maker_of_the_day_matty_sallin.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 19 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

a Jackass/Wild Boyz style show starring Dick Enberg called "Dickin' Around"

― Give me Sufjan or give me credibility (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 19 December 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

my pilot was for a Cybill Shepard vehicle about a child welfare social worker who has to supplement her meager income by working as a French maid at night. It was called "Cybil Servant".

― .- \(O_o)/-' (mookie wilson), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

A MASSIVE sphere. Or maybe a baseball cap that looks gold.

― Mestema (davidcorp), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

a "thank you" light for cars - instead of flashing your lights or waving when someone lets you change lanes, etc., you can flick on your green "thank you" light (on both front and rear bumpers).

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, I like that one Pete -- it'd avoid having to do that embarssing wave thing that you're not sure if they see.

My idea is a cutting board that is raised slightly and has a tray underneath that extends past the edges of the cutting board itself in order to catch all that food debris (garlic peel and whatnot) so it doesn't end up on your counter or floor.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

If you can't wave to a fellow driver there is something wrong with you.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

ah... this reminds me of my other big idea. the asshole laser. it's not really a laser. it's more like a remote control. some asshole cuts you off or fucks with you on the road and you can shoot them and essentially it ups a tamperproof counter on their car. every year when you get you emissions done, the count is read and if you count is significantly large, you get a ticket or something ... sentenced to 40 hours community service sounds better.

maybe you only get like one shot a day or something.

and sure, every teen would blast their vice principals car every day... perhaps certain people could be designated as general assholes and not a road hazzard.

but damn it... shake a fist america... cops are never there when you actually want one.

also related to this... every car should have mesh wifi... fuck a telephone pole... highways become communications networks... and all cars should come with some CB-like chat thing... perhaps something with limited vocab... like only 100 words or something... enough to say, "get off the highway now... you're about to hit a traffic jam" or "merge into the right lane now, accident on your left."

and since i'm babbling incoherently about all things, i'll buy a fancy phone/ipaq/pda whatever thingy the DAY that i can google maps for restaurants nearby and get table wait times and/or put us on the list. "show me the thai places with a wait time of < 15 minutes for a table of 4, nonsmoking. i'll be there in 10. put me on the list. sure, we'd like the spring rolls waiting for us."

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

youre just jealous of this awesome idea (patent pending! patent pending! patent pending!).

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

(xpost to ian)

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

a salt shaker with cocaine in it.

― O RLY? (eman), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Xpost, your asshole laser sounds suspiciously like George Carlin's asshole darts.

Gosh, just imagine the implications of that sentence taken out of context.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

is that on one of his records?
m.

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

hurting i had a similar idea... for my sixth grade invention convention i made a mock highchair tray with detachable lip so tray contents could be wiped in and then lip could be taken to sink and cleaned instead of entire tray.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

xpost I don't remember, but it involves magnetic darts that say "asshole" on them - if you get seven in a day you're taken out and shot.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:33 (twenty years ago)

For a project in the gifted and talented program for my elementary school, I invented a VCR-like box in which you could program shows to record on all the various channels.

WHERE'S MY TIVO MONEY GODDAMMIT

― Give me Sufjan or give me credibility (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

whoa - i had a project like that in elementary school, too.

i invented a lever operated basketball-returner, because my backyard was a huge hill, with my driveway on top. it was like a huge elastic belt, that you would release with a lever, flinging the basketball back up the hill. least practical idea ever!

the girl in my class who had the best invention went to the "invent america" contest (i cant believe i remember this from 13 years ago!). she made a "bow bracer", which was this thing she attached to her violin neck, in order to keep the bow in the proper playing position. i bet itd actually be a pretty great help for a fifth grade violinist-in-training. c@rly k0ch. that was her name.

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

my big idea is for a new year's eve cocktail party because nothing i've heard about thus far sounds very fun, and i want to run around in a dress and high heels mixing sidecars and green lanterns and mai-tais and offering guests plates of swedish meatballs. then in the wee hours we can call the delivery guy and maybe go crash some bar's lock-in. i think it's a winner, but unfortunately no one has the apartment space.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

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