Why on earth is there no “ball pit” app for the iPhone? We searched and searched, but found nothing.
I guess we’ll just need to built a real one. But still… I’d pay money, app developers. I really think I would. Let’s think about this just for a moment, shall we?
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What I want is 24-hour turnaround, custom on-demand classical accompaniment—sent to my email as mp3s!
When I’m visiting my parents, it’s not convenient to call around to hire an accompanist to come to my house and play so that my grandmother can hear me sing. (Even worse would be having to get their old piano tuned—yow!) I want a site where I can go to find a real pianist with mad skills who can accept my music by email, record the accompaniment with some basic tempo input from me (preferably using a metronome for accuracy), and email the mp3s right back to me. I’d be thrilled to pay per song, with price tiers for difficulty. The pianist should be technologically savvy, brilliant with piano accompaniment, truly knowledgeable about pauses for breathing and traditional tempos versus accepted variations, friendly, warm, and reliable.
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Waiting for a good name for this one—feel free to suggest.
I want writers to go out and collect stories from people who are homeless—the invisible people, people who are struggling. Becky Blanton is SUCH a role model for this. But I want to take it one step further—I want the writers to write the stories, I want them to have a mechanism for publishing them, and half the income generated goes to the person who told the story.
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The Background
I was once a Daily Juice addict. They sell delicious green juices and at least one of their locations sells amazing raw meals, too. Their fare is priced appropriately (and equitably, as far as I’m concerned). I got over my addiction when I ran out of money. Life lessons, man.
The epidemic of restaurant-goers who don’t know what’s in their food is disturbing to me, and so—conversely—I was always very excited to be a customer of Daily Juice, because I knew they were taking care of me. I knew there was a lot of good fresh produce in the juice I bought from them. I felt that I was in good hands!
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Background
One morning I was quite bewildered by my own inability to concentrate on the tasks that pay my bills, and so instituted a fantastic game with Marty. We raced our tasklists to 6pm—wacky fun!
I would like to hybridize CrossFit and the search for true productivity. I don’t know what I’d call it yet, but it seems like it could have wonderful possibilities. A “workout of the day” has very interesting possibilities, if it’s something people with very different tasklists are able to do across the board. (Some sort of tasklist challenge that almost anyone can take advantage of? Half done by noon? All done by noon? An item done every two hours on the dot?)
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I’ve been measuring out extra virgin olive oil tablespoon by tablespoon, and it is tedious. Does anyone ever get used to this? (Answer: Probably.) But wouldn’t it be fabulous to have a top I could put on the bottle of olive oil that would apportion it out tablespoon by tablespoon… for me?
For instance, it could be a bottle that oil can be put into with a cap made specifically for stopping oil after each tablespoon’s worth. Something in the cap would allow a tablespoon of oil to get past (perhaps using some kind of reservoir?), stop the flow for a moment, and let out another tablespoon.
Alternately, one might have caps only—caps for as many standard-size bottles as possible, and maybe even work with the companies that bottle the oil so that there is a cap that goes with everyone’s favorite brand.
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The Alamo Drafthouse is fantastic. The atmosphere is great, and the food is awfully good, for the most part. But really, I think we can do better.
Why not merge something like a Whole Foods Market or a Wheatsville Co-op with a movie theater? There can be prepped and snack foods available in refrigerated sections, and there can even be food prep stations like Wheatsville’s deli where you can order specific items and someone will put them together for you. This way, people going to the theater can eat the kind of food they might eat at home, and it’s healthy (and actually worth the money they pay for it).
Questions
Q. I know that some (all?) movie theaters make their bottom line via concessions, rather than movie tickets. How would this affect their financial situation if the food they sell is actually worth more money? (For instance, how does selling pretty good food affect the Alamo Drafthouse? Clearly they’ve worked something out.)
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