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15 Minutes Restaurant

This restaurant would consist of a "wall of fame" very similar to many other restaurants that contain pictures of famous people that have eaten there before. The main difference is that the pictures on our walls are from everyday people, who for at least a moment in their lives, are now famous.

I came up with this idea on the way to Lake Geneva, I passed a small diner and thought about all of the people that travel from all over the Midwest that come to Lake Geneva and perhaps look forward to eating at a particular restaurant. I am sure that most of the businesses in a town like Geneva are based and rely heavily on tourism. So, these no name tourists come from all around to vacation and eat a good burger. What do the restaurants give back?? Nothing. Besides good food and perhaps a good story.

With all of this in mind we would construct a wall of fame for people that attend our restaurant. This can be done either with paper pictures or even digital monitors that scroll through visitors. The main key to this is that the size of your picture or "level of your fame" would be determined by how many miles you have traveled. Example: if our restaurant was located in Rockford, IL and someone ate there from London they would get the "supreme picture" say an 11"x7", and a person from Chicago would get a 2"x3".

This idea hits on many levels: great food, excellent atmosphere and the main key - fame for some poor schmuck who has been suckered into dragging his nagging wife and ungrateful kids across the country for what they call a "vacation".

Sickofthistown.com

This is an idea for a web page that would allow people to own a peice of civic history. This would be a compilation site where independent contributors would write about their hometown and document via fact, image and anecdotal information. The main page would consist of a map of the US, you would click on the state, from that point you would "drill down" to your city and contribute with others that share disdain for your hometown. The information contained could include political, social and moral issues that quite simply make you hate your hometown.

First entry: Rockford, IL - This is the town where more tax dollars are used on the 4th of
July fireworks than on road repair. Take a look at Harrison sometime, talk about a shithole of a street.

The combined hatred from people throughout a particular city would really make this an eclectic mix and an enjoyable website for young and old alike.

coreypattersonisadouchebag.com

That is all. Coreypattersonisadouchebag.com.

Hey BTW, where did you decide to go for your personal Vaca? If you are ever bored on Wednesday nights watch 30 days on FX. Its the Supersize Me guy doing mini-documentaries.

A Story.

This is a bit strange for Idea Thunderdome, but I figured what the hell. I have some spare time here at work so I decided to write a short story. A tale of life, death, and the Mach III razor. It goes something like this:

So yesterday I was at the park and I began to wonder aloud if there was a way to split the atom. Upon realizing that I had no fucken clue what the hell that even meant, I stopped and began to shave in the public water fountain. So that was the excitement of my day, shaving in a water fountain with rusty water and a Mach III razor, but whatever, I didn’t care, my life was all ready over.

I was continuing back to my camper when I saw a cast-iron grill that looked like it needed to be grilled upon, so I spent the next five hours trying to rub two sticks together in order to spark the charcoal that I later realized was non-existent. It was now 8 pm and I had accomplished very little, I began to get the feeling that I needed to shave again.

Making my way back to the water fountain with my Mach III, I began to think that the grass really ought to be cut, or more aptly put: trimmed. At this point I began the process of fashioning a rudimentary lawnmower. This consisted of my Mach III and the two sticks that I was trying to create fire with. Luckily I also had dental floss in my right front pocket so I was able to tie together the two sticks. After repeated bashes against the grill I had freed the three razor blades from my Mach III. I then began to tie the razors to the end of the sticks. I have, at this point, mutilated my fingertips beyond recognition, but damn IT if that grass was not going to be trimmed. This is a public park after all, and if the public does not take care of it who will. After several hours of floss, stick, and razor blade [insert picture] I came to the conclusion that the blood loss to this point is somewhat un-bearable. Suddenly I remembered an old parlor trick that I heard about, you can cauterize your wounds with fire, so back to square one with my rudimentary lawnmower. Apart went the sticks and I was back at my attempts to create fire. Now, with blood dripping down the sticks I feel as though I am going to pass out, which I do, and that is pretty much where the story ends.

Movie Reviews

This site has some pretty cool movie reviews. So check it out damnit.

Lightswitch Anywhere

THere are two parts to lightswitch anywhere. The first is a stick anywhere on the wall light switch, it is battery powered and remotely controls the second part, a plug that plugs in to any outlet. Kind of like those Airlets, except the cover is a receiver for the lightswitch, which remotely turns on and off the outlet anywhere. Anyway, our new apartment could use about three of these. If you can find this product already created, shoot me a link.

Dine-In Movie Theatre

This is a rather simple idea. Essentially we need to buy an old movie theatre and gut out the inside of each individual "theatre". Rather than having the stadium style seatomg we would set it up like restaurant containing tables and chairs and perhaps even sofas. We would of course offer food and drink (alcoholica and non) and the type of food served would be "fun food". An idea within this idea is to bring back Stan's old idea of a store that specializes in selling french fries. This is one example of the type of food we could serve.

Back to the theatre - we would show old movies and have theme nights/weeks. One night would be Tarantino night and the next week could be boat movies, or something to that effect. Instead of people going to two separate places for dinner and a movie they could get it done all in one shot. The dine-in movie theatre is your one stop shop for date night.

Good Site

This site is good. So check it out damnit.

H2Oh My God

This is really more of a brand name more than anything. It could be a name for our bagged water or a nozzle for a hose.

My idea is this though: an entire line of water products from bottled to bagged water, aerosol cans of water, pump action bottles of water etc. The umbrella company will be H2Oh My God and we will specialize essentially in selling wacky water ideas. With all the people out there today that buy "flavored water" aka juice, and "sports water" aka water, we can really hit on a segment of the market not fully being serviced. H2Oh My God will sell specialty water - water for your car, water at the bar, water for ferns and water to cool your burns. We will do it all, wherever water is H2Oh My God is. Here's you,here's H2Oh My God.

Carwash in a bag ™ (old inventory)

This is an old idea that I had about 6 months ago that I came across recently when doing some move-out cleaning. It's based off of
Greenhouse-in-a-bag, a client at my old job I did a brochure for. Basically its a carwash
in a bag. It would be made out of PVC piping and when you take it out of the bag it unfolds to go over your car and spray it with water using
misters. I made a schematic for it but cant find the scan of it. I will post it
here when I do. My idea was that when you come home for the day you attach the hose to it and turn on the hose, water pressure would power
the unit back and forth over the top of your car washing it clean. Then you would fold it back up in the bag when you are done if you want.
Slight improvement over my dad's carwash garage idea he had. Anyway, just thought I would add this to the thunderdome.

Blogroller busted

Those bastards at Mozilla beat us to it. Its called Thunderbird. You can manage all of your RSS feeds in it. mozilla.com.
This is fun. I live in Soda Country right now.

MorningBlog or DailyBlog.

Think of it as Outlook for Blogs, or something. Every morning when I get to work, I use firefox to check on all my favorite blogs. In firefox if you are on a blog and you look in the lower right hand corner, you can subscribe to the feed. This means that when you bookmark the feed, and go in to your bookmarks, it lists a drop-down menu of recent posts (see pictures below). So this process of checking my favorite blogs’ feeds takes a while. What would be easier is if we created some type of aggregator that takes all of your favorite blogs and every morning you check your “BlogBox™” and see all the blog entries from your favorite blogs. Next to the subject line of the blog could be the image attachment to the blog or a symbol of an mp3 (podcast), kind of like on eBay when it shows a thumbnail. I know that there are all sorts of aggregators out there, but this software would be a lot more user friendly.

A simple quote

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been done is still not enough.
    - Eugene Delacroix

Thought it was fitting for this blog.

Mitch Hedberg

I don't know if you ever saw him , but he was damn funny. He died on Wednesday March 30th, here is the link to the article outlining his death.