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Fetish —

I have sort of a fetish toward well engineered surge protector strips. Especially ones with.. Mmmmmmm…. *drool* Finding ones like that at a thrift store at a good price is like striking gold to me. I don’t CARE if I need it. I *will* need it, at some point. And I’ll be happy I got […]

I kinda get podcasts now —

I’m just riffin’ daaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwggg….but podcasts are kinda like virtual friends that talk to you about stuff you both like. You don’t get to talk back, but there’s still a connection because it feels like they’re talking to you. There are so many out there, it’s a different social ecosystem than any other. There is commercialization […]

Weighted Upvotes —

I think the social media space needs weighted upvoting. What I mean by this is that you can upvote *more* than your ‘single-vote’ count, depending on your current allotment of…oh I don’t know.. “vote currency” ? Hopefully you know what I mean. Maybe you’d get a certain amount for how much time you spend on […]

Random idea #5478237 —

(straight from the stickynote..please forgive the run-on sentences, it was a very ‘stream-of-consciousness’ thing) A cartoon musical number where Donald Trump and Eric/Don Jr/etc. are there as kids asking what they should do since they won’t be able to afford some extravagant thing if the bank loan rate is that high, and Donald burst out […]

Memory #9272748 —

My grandparents on my mother’s side had a hearing aid business/office when I was little. I remember my parents dropping me off there on occasion to “work”, my grandparents assigning me some duties such as sorting the small glossy brochures for different products. I remember sorting through them as quickly and efficiently as possible, to […]