Ever been gripped with an idea or thought that you sort of halfway think is nuts but it turns into a project that you work on anyway, because it’s all you think about?
For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. I have been trying to arrange my affairs in such a way that I can devote my entire time for a few months to experiment in this field.
Fortunately, you’re in pretty good company.
(Yeah, short post is short, but the above letter excerpt tickled my fancy and I wanted to share it.)
Wilbur Wright was a genuine nutcase. Fiil thought he could fly, for heaven’s sake…
Fool* thought he could fly
(unlike this fool, who thought he could type….)
When I started High School in 1982 I realized I didn’t like sandwiches, at least not those which had sat in my lunchbox all morning. Depending on my choice of filling the bread would either dry out or go soggy before I got a chance to eat it. Coming from a working class family I couldn’t afford to buy my lunch every day though, in fact I probably bought my lunch once a month, if that. Oh! The dilemma!
I began bringing my lunch in a plastic container into which I’d pack half a dozen crackers, 3 cheese slices, and 3 slices of ham. And at lunch time I’d take my ingredients, put them together, and make myself three ham & cheese ‘cracker’ sandwiches. Sometimes in the morning I’d spread the crackers with a spot of butter & some vegemite, but after discovering the cheese would make the crackers very chewy (not an altogether unpleasant experience) the cheese slices would remain wrapped & separate until lunchtime.
Yes, I invented lunchables. I was eating them 5 years before Kraft would begin producing them.
In the late ’80s to early ’90s, after grabbing a breakfast-to-go from my local McDonald’s, I realized that sliding my hashbrown (in Australia, a large slice of deep fried, crumbed potato; not tater tot-style nuggets like they are here in the U.S.) into my breakfast McMuffin meant I didn’t need to juggle three hot food items (gotta have the coffee) between two hands. Several years later McDonald’s would introduce a breakfast sandwich (at least they did in Australia) with the hash brown already inside.
Obviously someone is following me around, watching me, and stealing my good ideas. The problem is I don’t realize just how good they are until someone else is making a fortune from them.
Santos Dumont, girl.
lol @ Cpt John and his fast-food precognition. That’s cool.
So, Pike, what’s your great idea that you’re obsessed with that’s going to become a project?
Your book?
A new way to make gnome rogues even more unbearable than before with a Lady Gaga pun?
A working steam powered flying machine?
@ Michael – <3
@ Capn John - Haha, ok, that story was awesome. As I was reading it I was just like "I see where this is going..."
@ Kat - Yes! Very yes.
@ Bamos - ...how about all of the above?
@Bamos- If you play WoW..go to IC and look in the sky 😛 youll see steam powered flying machines…just watch out of the massive bomb >.> since its gnomish engineering I wouldnt trust it… *Tosses a goblin dragon gun from hand to hand.*