I am happening.
This is very important. So often we think of the rest of the world as being "things that happen".
But we are simply a part of those things. However, we have the will to decide how we happen.
We get to write our own story, not the story of the things that happened to us, but the story of how we happened.
So decide how you are going to happen!
Also, some kind of blog integration needs to be mandatory with the next generation of desktops.
I think if human beings were able to simply speak their minds freely in the world, instantly, it would be a very soothing thing. Every thing we hide from people causes us concern and distraction.
Instant freedom to say it, without the worry of losing a great idea, of the fear of embarrassment. Because even the most brilliant among us, the most caring, concerned, lovely people, on occasion have ideas that are stupid at best. If we simply repress these ideas, they remain in our mind the way they are, because we never properly examine them. However, if we take the time to acknowledge every idea in our mind, without prejudice, we allow ourselves to properly evaluate the bad ideas, and discard them. Likewise, by putting our ideas in writing, and making them available anonymously, we both push ourselves to process them, and begin a process that will allow them to be evaluated publicly, in case we have doubt in our own faculties. And boy, sometimes I have said doubt. So let's put out our ideas, brilliant and criminal, and allow ourselves to truly evaluate them. No attachment, no derision, just the analysis of ideas.
Make it instant is the important idea.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Doesn't need fixed perhaps: Beryl.
Man, Beryl is neat. Not quite perfect yet, but it really shows that Open Source is about to overtake closed source in certain areas. KDE 4, with these kinds of effects, and the real emphasis that they are placing on empowering the individual to customize their experience, there are some cool things going on.
(Probably, for many people this does need fixed. But I was able to install it with like 3 commands (emerge, emerge, vi), which is pretty good for what it does.
(Probably, for many people this does need fixed. But I was able to install it with like 3 commands (emerge, emerge, vi), which is pretty good for what it does.
Neat that it was a Jeffrey Zeldman design that I picked for this blog.
Anyway, I have to give props to The Goods (I could have linked that, but I'm lazy) to some degree for my title. The concept is mine, and quite clear, but the phrasing is definately Goods-inspired.
Two things to start:
It's always a little sad when it's over, whatever it is. There's something about the end of anything that is uncomfortable for us humans. We don't like it to be "over". Perhaps it reminds us of death.
That was actually the first thing. The second thing:
The Wii "sensor bar" issue. It seems there now commercial wireless wii sensor bars. This is good, but why not two cones?
Honestly, two cones, each with a battery (AA), and you could have a string of the right length connecting them. You could remove the string, if a different length would work better with your TV size(and assuming the wii would work properly with it).
Simple, cheap to manufacture, cheap to power (everyone has AAs, and they're probably the most commonly available rechargables), and a little more stylish than the current options. Heck, cones would be just a start, you could easily use other shapes. Hell, you could have Mario and Link ones.
Anyway, "These Things Need Fixed" is going to be a list of things that need to be fixed. Simple things, like the wii sensor bar issue, and probably many more complicated things. Most of them will be accompanied with marketable product ideas. But, unfortunately, some of my ideas will be wack, probably because I am venting on one issue or another (like my idea to lobby for a city that enforces a maximum weight and speed for all vehicles within it's limits. A "bumper car" city. Solves huge issues with cost, danger, and impact of vehicles. But outside of the city anything goes!) I will attempt to identify these.
This is key:
Anyone can take the ideas here, no matter what they are, and market them. They don't need to tell me, they don't need to give me credit, they don't need to pay me. This is about attempting to inject information that may be of value into the public discourse. I am happy with my lifestyle. I'm not rich, but I have enough, and I would like any ideas I have of value to be given freely. Seeing their fruition would add significant value to my life.
"Be Fruitful, and Multiply."
P.S. 50 points to anyone who can give me a clue on why the first 3 "or so" sentences of this post in Opera didn't wrap, they simply extended horizontally. Then, they rendered that way on the site, which was weird, so I copy-pasted into Firefox, and it seems ok now. What's the deal?
Anyway, I have to give props to The Goods (I could have linked that, but I'm lazy) to some degree for my title. The concept is mine, and quite clear, but the phrasing is definately Goods-inspired.
Two things to start:
It's always a little sad when it's over, whatever it is. There's something about the end of anything that is uncomfortable for us humans. We don't like it to be "over". Perhaps it reminds us of death.
That was actually the first thing. The second thing:
The Wii "sensor bar" issue. It seems there now commercial wireless wii sensor bars. This is good, but why not two cones?
Honestly, two cones, each with a battery (AA), and you could have a string of the right length connecting them. You could remove the string, if a different length would work better with your TV size(and assuming the wii would work properly with it).
Simple, cheap to manufacture, cheap to power (everyone has AAs, and they're probably the most commonly available rechargables), and a little more stylish than the current options. Heck, cones would be just a start, you could easily use other shapes. Hell, you could have Mario and Link ones.
Anyway, "These Things Need Fixed" is going to be a list of things that need to be fixed. Simple things, like the wii sensor bar issue, and probably many more complicated things. Most of them will be accompanied with marketable product ideas. But, unfortunately, some of my ideas will be wack, probably because I am venting on one issue or another (like my idea to lobby for a city that enforces a maximum weight and speed for all vehicles within it's limits. A "bumper car" city. Solves huge issues with cost, danger, and impact of vehicles. But outside of the city anything goes!) I will attempt to identify these.
This is key:
Anyone can take the ideas here, no matter what they are, and market them. They don't need to tell me, they don't need to give me credit, they don't need to pay me. This is about attempting to inject information that may be of value into the public discourse. I am happy with my lifestyle. I'm not rich, but I have enough, and I would like any ideas I have of value to be given freely. Seeing their fruition would add significant value to my life.
"Be Fruitful, and Multiply."
P.S. 50 points to anyone who can give me a clue on why the first 3 "or so" sentences of this post in Opera didn't wrap, they simply extended horizontally. Then, they rendered that way on the site, which was weird, so I copy-pasted into Firefox, and it seems ok now. What's the deal?
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