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Fine, Just Fine

“What could we have done better tonight?” This is what a restaurant manager should be asking instead of the usual “How is your food? A small change might elicit some useful information and some goodwill. “How is your food tasting?” usually doesn’t do that. Photo is of one of the postcards I send that is most often liked in Postcrossing.

GoogleFast

It is time for a new TV Game Show to test people’s ability to find out stuff on the internet. With the advent of AI (artificial Intelligence) and the Smart Phone to access it, general knowledge has become relatively less valuable and knowing how to find it has become more valuable. Jeopardy is in jeopardy of becoming irrelevant. It can be replaced by GoogleFind. It follows the same rough format as Jeopardy with much more complicated questions. The contestants can use their smart phones to… Read More »GoogleFast

Made in Ghana

I earned this shirt as a volunteer at the Se’dav Va’aki Museum (formerly The Pueblo Grande Museum). But that is a different story. This story is that the shirt was manufactured in Ghana. Here is proof: If I were young and looking to help the poor and potentially make a lot of money I’d move to Ghana or Kenya and go to work in manufacturing. This shirt is proof that it can be done. For labor intensive manufacturing Africa for the next few years will… Read More »Made in Ghana

Virtual Coronation

The Coronation of Charles III was a world wide hit for the UK and the royal family. I thought why don’t they do a reenactment every five years or so to attract more tourists? And perhaps they could do more Medieval rituals using the British Armed Services but it would be a struggle to overcome the bureaucratic objections. Then I had a private enterprise idea that is a surefire money maker and is very doable. I propose that someone use the footage from the coronation… Read More »Virtual Coronation

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Droning about Drones

Last week I had the brilliant idea to uses drones to wash windows in high rise buildings. The idea came to me because we live in a high rise building and washing the outside windows is complicated and dangerous. Men on platforms with ropes and pulleys maneuver to get to the windows. At the same time the news is full of “drones at war” stories. I made the connection and got excited until I searched Google and found out that there are lots of companies… Read More »Droning about Drones

Earned Prosperity

A lot of people could be employed in the tedious work of digitizing and cataloging old books and records. I seems it would be a better way of distributing money than welfare or eternal unemployment checks. If the owners of the moldering archives were incentivised to get it done, it would create an opportunity for small businesses and give low skilled people work.

What Did You Say?

It is often noisy in restaurants. Bose or one of their competitors should invent a noise cancelling device that makes it less noisy. They have done it with headphones. I’m visualizing an Alexa looking pod on the table that cancels noise from everyone outside of a six foot circle. So that loud man at the next table doesn’t disrupt your dinner. Photo is Nurit and I having High Tea at the expensive hotel in Victoria BC in 2006.

Football

It is the beginning of the NFL playoffs so here is an idea to make it a little bit safer: Quarterbacks should wear a different color since there are different rules for tackling them. This is how they saved the goalies in Soccer. Last year BC (Before Covid) I predicted that football would have at best another ten years before it became indefensible as a blood sport. Covid might move up that schedule. I like football and I think that sports generally are a net… Read More »Football

Mount Simon

In the photo there is a small peak just to the right of Piestewa. I want it to be named Mount Simon. Suddenly this is a revenue idea for the Phoenix Park and Recreation Department. Sell virtual naming rights to all of the minor peaks, knolls, valleys, canyons and other land features in the city. The naming rights would expire in twenty years and the names would only show up on the computerized and cleverly named maps accessible on your smart phone or printed on… Read More »Mount Simon