Someone needs to invent the technology to record dreams. I have so many ideas and write so many songs in my dreams that I can’t remember when I wake up. This is one of the ideas that I do remember.
I was involved in the creation and marketing of a device that added realism to movies. It was a simple box that could hang on the back of a movie theater seat or get placed on a stand in front of the movie watcher. The box (2 feet wide, 4 inches tall, 4 inches deep) had things like a water sprayer or mist creator, a fan, and even digital “voting” panel. It all sounds cheap, but it was put together well. Anyway, me and a few other people were marketing this thing to movie theaters as a cheap way to “upgrade” their movie theaters.
The idea is that when someone splashes some water in the movie, the audience would get a little spray from the box. The movie could also have “alternate stories” or something where the audience could vote what happens next and the movie would show that story line. This technology already exists when you go to theme parks like disney world and the “4d” shows that interact with the audience, but that’s the only place for it. My group was trying to break that into the real world theaters and even in homes by putting it in one simple box that was inexpensive. It would require some pre-production work to get signals sent to the device to sync up with the movie, but for theaters, you could even just have a man in a booth doing all the work for all the devices.
Talking in public restrooms should be avoided at all costs. You have a job to do, and you should be focused on your task. Talking across stall walls is completely forbidden. That’s just weird for everyone involved. Yes, talking on your phone counts as talking across walls.
There are a lot of adult LEGO enthusiasts who just enjoy LEGO as a medium to recreate scenes from movies or popular history. Here’s a guy who likes to recreate scenes from Oscar winning movies in LEGO.
Checking out BoringPGH.com the other day and stumbled on this gem. I’ve never heard of the band Formula412 before, but I dig it. The video is pretty decent, and I really like the concept. Might even make PAT Transit look cool…if that’s possible. It was done by Bill Paladino, who you’d recognize as the guy behind Wiz Khalifa’s Black and Yellow video.
The only time you talk about your old job is at a job interview. Once you’re in, they don’t care anymore. Don’t be that guy that dishes out diatribes on how he used to do this, or how things were when no one really gives a crap.
I play words with friends (a scrabble rip-off basically) with a few people on my iphone, and I wanted to wrap some intelligence around finding the optimal word based off what letters were already played. Now, I do not condone the act of cheating when you’re playing the game. I was more intrigued at the logic that your brain does to determine what words to play. Scrabble is a measurable science, and there is always a best word to play, it’s just a matter of whether you know that word and whether you recognize where to place it.
I at first wanted to write a complete scrabble game, that would track the entire board and value changing tiles, so that you could play against a computer. I could still do that, but I would think that no one really wants to play scrabble by themselves, right?
So I set off to at least code what could be useful -IF- you decided to use it as a reference tool. I made a version available through the blog but also a better mobile version for iphones and such here – http://sixf00t4.com/wordswithjosh. Give it a shot. It will help you find anagrams, words with letters in specific places, and even includes the option for blank tiles. I was thinking about adding the functionality to set letter spaces as score modifiers (triple letter, double word, etc), but I got lazy and really just satisfied with what I have now. It’s all php and mysql. Let me know what you think!
