Wheelie Bags are a great idea for travel. And four wheel bags are a nice improvement on the two wheel kind once you get over the dork factor. The one drawback to the four wheel kind is that on trams, subways and buses they tend to roll away from you if your not paying attention. Here is a solution.Read More »Luggage Leash
Visit the Cat Cafe in San Diego and spend some quality cat time without having to own one. Read More »Cat Cafe
One evening you open a bottle of wine and drink a glass. It is delicious. The next night the wine is not quite as good and by the third night the wine is almost undrinkable. You drink it anyway because you really need the alcohol to help forget your day at work but that is another story. Recently it happened to me and the idea of Three Day Wine was born.Read More »Three Day Wine
I had the opportunity to invest in my niece Krista’s dream of opening a “Cheers like” bar in Van Wert, Ohio. This is a “before photo” showing Krista and her daughter, Amber, working on the physical premises. This photo was taken last November. The target is to open in the late spring. Updates to follow.
Detritus outside a bar in Tempe on New Years Day
The week between Christmas and New Year needs a name. And each of the days needs a name also. The day after Christmas is not Wednesday. Most people are not doing their Wednesday stuff. It falls into that festive nether time. It is really more like a Saturday. But we can’t have seven Saturdays. So the days in the festive time need new names.Read More »Naming The Holiday Festival
Think of this as a before photo.Read More »The Grand Canal
Here is a simple idea that might become a big business.
Take the idea of refillable bottles that are used now for selling high end olive oil and apply it to shampoo. Reducing the use of single use plastic containers is an attainable personal environmental goal. When you go to the kiosk to refill your shampoo bottles your actually doing something to help the planet.Read More »Environmental Shampoo
Build one of these with a Walmart on the bottom floors. Market it to old people: “You never have to leave the building.”
Here is an example of competing interests, power groups and unintended consequences. On our recent New England trip we observed that in hotels built before about 1980 the stairs were a usable alternative to the elevator. At the Inn at Essex a three story hotel in Burlington, Vermont the stairs wrap invitingly around the elevator column. They are wide, carpeted and well lit. As a result the stairs are easy to use. In the newer hotels we stayed at the stairs were always at the… Read More »Hotel Stairs (From September 2008)
Many years ago before indoor plumbing people carried their “night soil” outside to the honey man who picked it up and disposed of it. We do the same thing today with rubbish. Sometimes we call it trash, or garbage. There are personal costs, hygiene issues and time involved with the current systems we have to remove waste from our homes. But we tolerate it. Add in the complications involved with recycling and the societal costs become astronomical. There may be a solution.Read More »A Radical Dump Idea