Ideas Shmideas

Our first assignment, given at the end of the day was to come up with 20 new ideas for the following morning.

Easy, huh? Well I wish I'd had fielded suggestions on this blog beforehand. On second thought, seeing that the only people who read this are me and that guy with the fetish for reading blogs that nobody but the author reads, it probably wouldn't have made a difference. Although, in his defence, it pretty creative how he manages to type with only one hand.

There were no restrictions or requirements given for the ideas, other than they were, umm, real, I guess. So for example, the idea that we should remove gravity so that cars are lighter and consume less fuel is only really valid if you can pitch it to God, but it's notoriously difficult to get an interview with him.

Now if some science guy happens to be looking over Fetish guy's shoulder while connecting the electrodes (there's no reason to think that fetish guy can't be multi-disciplinary in that sense) and sees this, he might say that that's a perfectly valid idea; all you have to do is create a local bubble in space-time where gravity is altered... Yeah, well it's just as difficult to get interviews with Space-Time Bubble Inc, so get back to those electrodes.

So when, like me, you have the same capacity for creative thought as a particularly retarded toadstool, your brain turns to your immediate surroundings and what appears to be ideas, is just a well-guised bitch list of things that happen to annoy you. So I used up my entire 20 ideas on the train trying to invent creative ways to prevent my bum from going numb, my feet from falling asleep, how to shut up the guy talking on the phone; Of course, whenever an attractive woman walked on the train, I had the bright idea of x-ray goggles...as of course did every other guy.

Some of the students came up with pretty impressive ideas that were leaps and bounds beyond numb bums, but if wouldn't be right if I tell you what they are. Of course, I could be convinced otherwise if I get the cut of the profits of whichever ideas you steal. It's still not"right" in the traditional view, but in these new ways of thinking, you never can tell...mainly because these new ways change constantly to suit whatever the speakers point of view.

Other students also came up with great ideas, I think. But they described them in Dutch, so I couldn't really tell. But hey, that's what yet when studying in Paramaribo.