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Hey, hey…check it out. I ran across this while looking up the refractive index of vinegar (yes, I had to look it up. Shut up). It’s the Halfbakery “a discussion forum for poorly thought-out original ideas for inventions.”

Worth a morning browse. My favorite so far: cream cheese marketed in ring shape, so you just slap it on your bagel. I don’t know why I like that, though. I don’t like my bagels cut in half longitudinally. I like to eat them toroidally, dabbing cream cheese on the gnawed ends.

Why am I telling you this?

Comments


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 9:43 am

That would be latitudinally.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 9:48 am

More like circumferentially, isn’t it?


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 9:53 am

But a torus has two circumferences? I don’t know. Matter of fact, I’m backing off latitudinally. I’m off coffee and fuzzy-headed.

The problem with english is that the english majors have been in charge of it for centuries. It shows.

But I really like the torus-shaped cheese idea!


Comment from pajama momma
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:10 am

That site is what happens when people who are high actually record their thoughts.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:11 am

I think a torus-shaped cheese would, in fact, be a cheese donut. I think I shall have to dig out the 3D program for this one.


Comment from Beavis Meigs
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:31 am

You said “roid.”

And PJM is exactly right — seven of those ideas are mine. I think.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:31 am

Maybe the 3D program will say what slicing a donut shape “the hard way” is called. Probably not.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:50 am

torusssesses


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:53 am

A person would need a big mouth to consume longitudinally. Or is it ok to bite left then bite right?

Solidworks?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:05 am

torusssesses


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:16 am

It occurred to me earlier that you are not particularly task-challenged today. Cool!


Comment from Cuffy Meigs
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:17 am

HA! Who ever thought I’d spank it to CAD output? Certainly not me!

Is that a twirl at the end? /costanza


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:30 am

fell down the stairs


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:51 am

Is that Autocad, Weaz, or Solidworks?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:53 am

going for a walk


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 11:53 am

3D Studio…AutoCad used to own them (Autodesk). Then they sold them. Then they bought them again, I think.


Comment from iamfelix
Time: March 5, 2008, 12:11 pm

LOL … bagel pr0n … 3D *Cad* bagel pr0n.

I just saw an interesting bio of Vincent Price (from the other thread, which I’m too lazy to switch back to) on the DVD of either “Laura” or “Leave Her to Heaven” (both with Gene Tierney, both of which I watched last week). He was the ‘romantic lead’ in both of those pix. He was pretty cute then and not at all scary. I remember seeing him in “Masque of the Red Death” and “Pit and the Pendulum” in the 60s & being scared to death. Has anyone noticed how much Bob Dylan now resembles Price?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 12:12 pm

raining


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 12:19 pm

tiny stars of david


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 12:20 pm

Good lord! You’re right, Felix!

On the other hand, past a certain age I suppose we all look alike. Age, the great egalitarian force. Next to diarrhea.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 5, 2008, 12:36 pm

LOL! You rock, Your Grace! (Hah, try to make a picture of that!)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 12:46 pm

iraq

I rock.

Now I really am going for a walk (darn stars of david!)


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 5, 2008, 1:09 pm

LOL! A smart one, Your Grace is.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 2:15 pm

To the person who got here by asking “can a dead squirrel make you sick”…how dead? And what do you plan to do with it?


Comment from bmac
Time: March 5, 2008, 4:23 pm

This may be the single most brilliant thread I’ve ever seen.

But then again, the peyote just kicked in.

No…no…it’s brilliant.

I think.


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: March 5, 2008, 4:36 pm

You’re having way too much fun at work Weasel. I, on the other hand, get to look through 100’s of photos identifying grass types. Bleh.


Comment from Pupster
Time: March 5, 2008, 4:42 pm

Enas,
Brown = Columbian

You’re welcome.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 6:24 pm

Brown=Columbian
green-gold=Hawaiian
Red=Panama

Grey=that cheap Mexican shit


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 6:26 pm

I’m amazed to discover there’s a mountain in the Northeast corner of Iraq labeled unnamed peak. Iraq. Cradle of Civilization. Oldest fucking society on the planet. There’s a whole mountain nobody’s bothered to name.

That’s just lazy.


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: March 5, 2008, 6:54 pm

Heh. Thanks guys. Alas, my grass is not the Duuuuuude, what were we just talking about? kind, but the regular yard carpeting stuff.

I think that we should name that unnamed peak to be “What? I Dunno, It’s Just A Mountain”.


Comment from bmac
Time: March 5, 2008, 6:58 pm

Or Shithead. Just name it Shithead.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 7:03 pm

On top of Mount Shithead,
All covered in…

No, I don’t think so. I always want to pronounce “shithead” as “shi-theed” anyway. Sounds Irish.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 7:04 pm

Call it “Don’t”.

Don’t Peak.


Comment from iamfelix
Time: March 5, 2008, 7:17 pm

Call it “Don’t”.

Don’t Peak.

L. O. L.


Comment from bmac
Time: March 5, 2008, 7:19 pm

Yeah, it looks like Shi-theed.
Bad Steve Martin reference. (The Jerk)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 5, 2008, 7:35 pm

Good god! Did I poach that line? I’ve never even seen the Jerk.

I worry about committing inadvertent plagiarism a lot. I look at so much stuff, and I have a brain like a disorganized, snarly ball of duct tape. Sticky side out.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 5, 2008, 7:43 pm

I think that’s a common problem with people who have read a very great deal all their life, and write. Ya don’t always know where that slick phrase or just-so remark came from; your creative mind, or a distant memory.


Comment from iamfelix
Time: March 5, 2008, 8:06 pm

I love The Jerk.

I’m always quoting this:

Navin: Well I’m gonna to go then! And I don’t need any of this! I
don’t need this stuff, (he pushes all of the letters off the
desk), and I don’t need you. I don’t need anything except this
(he picks up the ashtray) and that’s it and that’s the only thing
I need, is this. I don’t need this or this. Just this ashtray.
And this paddle game, the ashtray and the paddle game and that’s
all I need. And this remote control. The ashtray, the paddle game
and the remote control, and that’s all I need. And these matches.
The ashtray, and these matches, and the remote control and the
paddle ball. And this lamp. The ashtray, this paddle game and the
remote control and the lamp and that’s all I need. And that’s all
I need too. I don’t need one other thing, not one – I need this!
The paddle game, and the chair, and the remote control, and the
matches, for sure. Well what are you looking at? What do you
think I am, some kind of a jerk or something? And this! And
that’s all I need. The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle
game, this magazine and the chair….

I did it one night at work, and was thrilled that my friend was one of the few who ever “got” it — set about complaining about how few did, and her instant response was,
“Perhaps if you had your pants around your ankles ….”
(I haven’t tried it)


Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: March 5, 2008, 10:16 pm

Hey, bmac – if a row of dancing girls suddenly apears, chanting ‘We are the 801’ it’s the peyote.

Trust me.

I’m not like the others. I’m your friend .


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 6, 2008, 9:12 am

If we’re lucky, Weasels co-worker stayed home again today and Weaz can draw 3D stuff some more.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 6, 2008, 9:39 am

No, she’s in. She really did fall down the stairs, I guess.

I asked to see her boo-boo and she jammed her headphones on and turned to face the wall.

Huh. Some people. You try to be civil…


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 6, 2008, 9:46 am

You could moon her…real quiet-like.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 6, 2008, 9:55 am

Hm. I’m trying to work out what a loud moon would consist of. Unfortunately, I have a very vivid imagination.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: March 6, 2008, 10:02 am

I was counting on your imagination. It would be wasted effort if she has headphones on. Pity.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:33 am

Mount Yanyeznayu.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:38 am

Yanyeznayu gets exactly one Google hit, Musli.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:42 am

Mt. Screwedupistan


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:45 am

Actually, it’s a smush of “ya nye zanyu”, transliteration of the Russian “Я не знаю”.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:46 am

Sorry, I suppose I was being overly difficult.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:49 am

Babelfish says that’s “4 I do not know”


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 6, 2008, 11:55 am

If there’s an unnamed mount in Iran, I propose it be named Gora Zemlya Stekla (Гора Земля Стекла). 🙂


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:04 pm

I have no idea where they get the “4” from. “Я” means “I”. It’s a little redundant (the verb is conjugated into the first person singular so the pronoun is not needed).

That’s funny. Babelfish can’t translate “I” into Russian. What’s Russian for “I” (Я) is said to be a tranlation of “me” (which isn’t correct because “me” would properly be “мне”). But putting back “Я” to translate into English, it comes out as “4”. Maybe it has a problem processing that character. But it can’t be. If it’s wrong, it wouldn’t be online, no?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:08 pm

Colloquially, I make that “Mount Puddle-of-Glass”? Heh.


Comment from Muslihoon
Time: March 6, 2008, 12:13 pm

Mount Land of Glass. 🙂

From Russian to English, doesn’t work. From English to Russian, it works. I don’t know why Babelfish is to temperamental. And don’t get me started on how it translates Chinese. In Chinese, phrases go in a different order than in English. Babelfish translates the phrases in the order they are entered rather than transposing them to where they should be.

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