I tried out the terracotta heater idea
I bought a fairly large flower pot
lit the leftover citronella candle under it
and yeah . . .
It turned the pot into a large hand warmer
It's not something I would use to lower my heating bill
but if I was desparately trying not to freeze , I'd try it again
I suspect this idea originated when I was playing Spore
Of a centaur-like creature
It would have six limbs
The back pair would be feet just for walking
and the front pair would be hands just for manipulating objects
The middle pair would be a hybrid of the two
The creature could stand and walk on its back legs , and use its middle limbs to grasp an object without much dexterity
If the creature needed to walk or run a long distance , then it would use the middle limbs as an extra pair of legs
Last night , I had a "being chased" dream
I was in the basement of the Southfield house
I was invisible and trying to avoid capture by somebody that was trying to convince me they were my friend
At one point , I ducked under the stairs to avoid them
I hadn't yet , but I thought "what if i make noise by scraping against the under side of the stairs ?"
and then I imagined a dungeon master rolling dice against my stealth check
Now , I'm wondering how my brain multi-tasks and compartmentilizes while I'm dreaming
It seems like part of my mind sets up a scenario
and then a separate part of my mind plays out the scene
It's like when Peter Griffon was holding two phones and having a conversation with himself
Or the question , "if you roll a die in a dream , is the outcome random ? "
I think I've determined a desire of some humans
They like to rule from a distance
Politicians , managers , CEOs , generals like to give orders to people that are far away
I expect that they like the idea that they are being obeyed without having to hear objections from a person standing right in front of them
And if the faraway person isn't following orders , then they'll send one of their minions (usually armed ) to force them into line
This idea came about when I heard about the oil pipe line that was running through Native American lands
and I thought that the CEOs and politicians should go and live under the pipe line and see how they like being dripped on
"A wank and a nap "
I had a thought about my masturbation habits
but I can't remember what it was now
A lot of people take pleasure in the shopping , buying , and acquiring of things
and then they try to get more pleasure by giving the item to another person , and gathering gratitude
"Here , I got this for you"
"No , you got it for the pleasure it gives you"
It's relatively warm today
So , I went outside and raked leaves
Almost none of the leaves were mine
but I wanted to get them up before they created more dead spots in my lawn
I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my soil that is preventing grass from thriving
I'm not concerned with having a lush green carpet of grass
but the large sections of brown dirt aren't pretty
There is one memory of me being clever that is stuck in my head . . .
Back when I spent a lot of time at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
I was playing a lot of Marvel vs Capcom
I liked playing the bigger characters -- Hulk , Juggernaut , Zangeif
I often played very defensively , waiting for the other person to leave an opening , then I would counter attack with a huge combo
One time I was playing Juggernaut against another Juggernaut
and I noticed that he was playing just as defensively as I was
When Juggernaut's strong attack was blocked it left you open for a counter attack
The other guy knew this too , so we spent most of the match waiting for each other to make a mistake
On the other hand , Juggernaut's jab looked just like his strong attack but was quick to recover
We both had our super-meters filled up and were waiting for an opening to stomp on each other
I knew he was waiting on a strong attack , but I threw a jab
He took the bait and lauched his Juggernaut Rush , which I was able to defend against
The end of a super-attack has a large opening , which I filled with my own Juggernaut Rush , eating the last of his health and winning the match
It was a small victory , but one that I've felt clever for spotting in the moment
The AMC theatre at the Fairlane mall has recently closed
So , I'm hunting for another nearby theatre to go to
I don't want to drive out to Livonia every week
I found a Cinemark theatre a few miles away
When they were advertising their own movie watcher card
It occurred to me that I don't think I've ever been to a non-AMC theatre before
Ant-Man and the Wasp : Quantumania
It's just another Marvel movie
I shouldn't have been surprised , but it was 99% CGI
It feels like Disney is having to reach deep into the Marvel archives to pull up increasingly obscure characters and stories
A million dollar idea I had while watching a video of a guy mowing an overgrown yard
Most professional lawn mowers will not bag up the grass clippings
but the clippings will often clump up on the lawn
My idea is to have the clippings re-shredded into smaller pieces
and then flung out onto the lawn for even dispersal
This is a story from a long time ago , when thinking about shitty drivers
I was commuting down the Southfield freeway from the Southfield house to the Dearborn area
The entire road was packed full of cars
due to rush hour and some construction
Normally , I don't drive in the left-hand fast-lane
but during this time , I did because traffic was crawling along , and I wanted to avoid the cars coming on from the on ramps
At first , I would do what everybody else was doing
stomp on the gas , move thirty feet , stomp on the brakes
After a while , I tried to even out my speed by simply letting my foot of the brake and coasting forward
hoping that the car in front would start to move by the time I got up to them
I don't remember what I was listening to \ watching during this time as I zoned out during the boring commute
But this one time I happened to see some movement in my rear view mirror
It was the guy behind me waving his arms in frustration
I assume he was getting frustrated because I wasn't driving as fast as possible at all times
He obviously preferred the stomp-on-gas , stomp-on-brake philosophy
and couldn't stand that I was ever leaving more than an inch between me and the car in front of me
There wasn't anything I could do about the traffic
and I wasn't going to re-adopt his high stress form of driving
So I did my best to ignore him
Then , due to some fluke of the flow of traffic
a large space appeared to the right of my car , and in front of my car
And with the logic of an impatient sociopath
He saw his chance to gain one car length
He swooped around
got in front of me
and immediately smashed into the back of the car that was in front of me
The space to the right of my car was still there
So I used it to avoid the accident
and move on with my day
I was sympathetic to all the people that had their commute lengthend
and the poor guy that had to deal with the wreckless idiot who had crunched his back bumper
A hypothetical arguement I had with my imaginary girlfriend . . .
It's a hot summer day
I've taken a shower to rinse the sweat off and cool down
I don't bother to get dressed , and wander around the house naked
I'm standing in the kitchen , cooking or cleaning
with my bare butt facing the back door
I'm not trying to be sexy , I just happen to be naked
I hear my girlfriend come home
We've been having sex for a while , so I'm not embarrassed to be seen naked by her
She comes in the back door
sees me standing there naked
and exclaims " eew ! gross ! put some clothes on ! no body wants to see that ! "
For a moment , I stood there stunned by her words
I was expecting her to be at least a little bit glad to see me , no matter how I was dressed
I turned toward her , gave her a worried smile , gestured toward my body , and said "do you not want to see me naked?"
"not like this!"
I didn't like the idea that I was being scolded
So I petulantly went to my room and got dressed in an attempt to spite her
I got as fully dressed as I could
undershirt , underwear , long socks , t-shirt , jeans , belt , and a long sleeved collared shirt
I considered that putting on my coat and boots would be going too far
The only skin showing were my hands and head
I went back to the kitchen and finished up what I was doing before she came home
Then I spent the rest of the day brooding over what she had said
Why was she upset that she had seen me naked in the kitchen ?
I won't deny that my body is not super attractive
I'm not athletically fit
but neither am I fat nor obese , just overweight and soft in certain areas
about as much as she is
Was she grossed out that I might be getting farts or pubic hairs on the food ?
I don't think so , because she said "no body wants to see that" not "don't shit where we eat"
It might be possible that she has some sort of phobia and treated all of her past boyfriends like this
But she's okay with having sex with men ?
or does she just tolerate me pressing my naked body against hers ?
I don't like the idea that I'm forcing her to do something she doesn't like
I decided to avoid having sex with her and see how she would react
gameboy , adventurers dungeon
I was watching a video about people creating modern games for the original GameBoy
I've been wondering about the old computers and gaming systems
Using what we know now about game creation
What is the most sophisticated game you could create on the old hardware ?
My idea is called Adventurer's Dungeon
Your party of adventurers go through a randomized 2D maze
killing monsters , finding treasure and weapons
The exit to the maze takes you down a level to another harder maze with better loot
Now that I think about it , it sounds a lot like Diablo
but the graphics won't be top-down
It'll be that really old way of showing 3D rooms
You only see one room at a time with perspective lines showing only the room you're standing in
I'm imagining every tenth floor having a randomized boss
It will be big and strong , but have some personality -- embarrassed , lonely , angry , cowardly , etc
A lot of this idea is based on Rimiru's labyrinth
It is so much nicer
to wake up because you're done sleeping
and not because some clock is making a beeping noise