Sensing Fatal Errors

This week I caught some stupid show called Sensing Murder where two psychics are brought in to help confuse cold case detectives by making up a bunch of bullshit.

But that got me thinking, if psychics or clairvoyants were real, why couldn't they be brought in to help detect fatal errors in computer code?

Same concept isn't it?

What if.?..Then What?...So What?

That's the formula I once heard for coming up with an idea for a story. What if?...Then what?...So what?

I forget who said it.

So here is one idea I had for a sci fi type story

What if? In some future orwellian society people had chips implanted in their brain to 'override' reason so they would believe the faulty logic being fed to them by a ruling elite

Then what? Somebody's chip fails

So what? You have the proverbial sane person in an insane world

Not completely original in that this theme has been explored a lot. But since most good science fiction is actually about the present situation; I think this would be a good vehicle to explore the utter bullshit we are sometimes fed by politicians.

(PS, it's also possible that this precise story line has already been explored. I don't pretend to know everything -- unless I'm at a party).

Dear reader,

You might know my friend Cara. In fact, if you are reading this there is a good chance that you are my friend Cara.

Anyway, Cara has had some damn good ideas herself and co-conspired with me on other ideas such as Scarlet Letters -- a word game which was invented on a Sunday morning and then thrust upon her somewhat relucant yet willing family that evening.

Cara is usually around for my more ridiculous ideas, such as this one, which she has taken upon herself to implement. Although there is still no way for Yukonites to add their submissions.

So much idea for today is that you check out her blog which is not only made up of words but intermittently about them.

The Cousins Project

This is a concept I have for a coffee table book to be created by a photographer/writer with a car.

Said photographer/writer (P/W) selects a cousin and goes to his/her house--takes some pictures tells a story. He/she then goes to visit a cousin of that person, same deal. the P/W repeats this a number of times.

There are some practical issues like how do you avoid reaching a terminal point in the cousin chain where there is no new cousin to visit.

In a way, this idea is very corny. But I also think it would be cool to see how quickly the socio-economic class changed as the P/W moved along the chain.

Will somebody please implement a simple stack on a television remote

Previous channel is neat and all, but what if I am rotating between three or four shows (it happens to us sports fans), Why not a simple three button set up:

1. Add button
2. Remove button
3. Cycle button

The first button puts channels onto the stack. The second button takes them off and the third button just cycles through the channels currently in the stack

(Think of the previous channel button as a fixed stack of two if you are having a hard time figuring out what I mean by stack.)

hextraction.com

OK, so not all of my ideas turn out to be completely original. Apparently there are some other people in the world who are, you know, smart.

So here is something crossed off my list with me even knowing it. It's a simple concept: you provide a URL and the tool shows you all the colors with the associated hex code. It even finds the css file.

However, if you want to get into the color extracting 'business', hextraction.com is (as of today) still available to be registered.

This is a classic example of why I started this blog. Back when I originally had this idea, there weren't any sites doing this (at least I couldn't find any on Google).

Verses Versus Verses

Just a quick note today on this idea I had for a TV show which is like an American Idol for ministers. Part poetry slam, part church sermon. Could be interesting and it has a catchy title.