Blog of Josh Hall

I had this idea sometime shortly after the attacks on the world trade towers on 9/11/01.  There were all these people stuck on floors so high up, and their only way out were the windows.  So many people just jumped to their death.  The only other method of getting out of the building was the [...]

Talking with Chris Olivieri one day, we got into how cursive is useless and shouldn’t be taught any more.  If we wanted to teach children how to write differently, teach them a different language.  To take that a step further, you could teach everyone in the world the same extra language.  That might draw us all a [...]

Have you ever looked at states with straight border lines and wondered why they were straight and how true those straight lines were?  I have.  I want to play with those straight lines. I want to buy property right on the line in one state, then buy the adjoining property in the other state and [...]

How much surface area would it take to create the tallest mountain manually?  I think this would be a good task for some place in Colorado, since they’re already so elevated.  You could build this mountain and design it to have a wide road that wraps around it, and depending how long it turns out [...]

I wonder what the corporate smoking policy is at cigarette manufacturers.  Do they have no breaks because people can smoke as much as they want to anywhere in the office?  Does everyone get free cigarettes?  There’s got to be a hard balance from encouraging loyalty to your product to also maintaining productivity to investing in [...]

I’m going to try to avoid offending anyone here.  Know that I’m expressing my thoughts, not my rules.  This is an idea that I’ve always struggled with, not something that I’m upset with others for doing. I don’t really value food.  I define food as the most basic substance that we require to survive.  That’s [...]