Magnetic Game

There needs to be a game that is entirely magnetized... where the pieces "float" because of the reverse polarity.

Dollar Day DVD's

A DVD rental place that rents out DVD's for $1/day or $0.10/hour. New Releases are $1.50/day or $0.15/hour. Blu-rays are $2/day or $0.20/hour. Accounts would require a credit card to be opened and kept on file. Accounts would work on a cashless, deduction-based system. Account users would spend $20 up-front, and their account would be deducted as they rent. Receipts would print time stamps of when something was rented and outstanding balances.

We would need a system that automatically checks in DVD's as they are placed through the slot. Cameras would record people as they check in DVD's, too. A screen would read back to the person checking in the DVD that the DVD has been received and they have been deducted whatever amount of money from their account. If the system ever messes up, there is a backup video of the person dropping off the DVD.

Perhaps there would be a way for the check-in system to automatically alphabetize the movies. Maybe a two-layer system where, on the top row, would be all the rentable DVD's (which would be in custom cases like the Redbox DVD's). On the bottom row would be all the cases of currently-out DVD's. When a DVD is returned, it kicks out the case, and the employees can put them back on the wall.

There would need to be a back-up if the system failed.

Golden Gate Games

To form an LLC for Golden Gate Games, I need $600 and $150/year. I need an NDA for anyone (Matthew Ronin) doing art for Cribbage Confetti.

New Swimsuit

Create a swimsuit that makes the edges of tanlines "fade" between tanned and untanned areas---perhaps using a mesh that becomes increasingly denser.

New Toothbrush

Make a "stab proof" toothbrush. I always brush fast & end up stabbing myself in the mouth, which becomes a sore. If the end of a t-brush were soft, prob solved.

Bus Integration Movie

I need to write a film about the racial integration of schools in the 50's. The opening scene is the historic moment in Little Rock. Then rewind to well-meaning politicians intitiating the plan while another, smarter man fights it. He is jeered as standing in the way of progress, and the racists that oppose integration are the only standing by him, but he despises racism is actually sympathetic to blacks and knows how horrible this will be for them.

As the integration of schools continues, blacks and whites segregate into gangs like the would in a prison. School as a prison becomes thematic. One school is forced to hire a black teacher who is consistently beat up by white students.

3 Ideas: Cribbage, Snorkel, SF Homes

Forming ideas: (1) Cribbage game needs to be peddled locally to games in town; perhaps Matthew Ronan could do the art. I need to pay him... or offer a percentage. We need capital, and to form an LLC. The board needs to be different, useful, easy-to-read, creative. (2) I've also considered a snorkel device that let's you breathe through your nose AND mouth. (3) I want to turn some of the unusable homes in SF into functional ones--buy, fix up, rent out.