T-shirt ideas #1

* “Hear me now, Google me later”
* Google web page with the words “depleted uranium” in search field
* “Get Your War On” cartoon
* “War usually kills more people than it saves”
* I can’t believe he’s still in office.


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Better Ice for Muscles

Regular ice is coldest, but hardest to re-use for muscle aches. The flexible ice-substitutes I've tried stink and melt too damn quickly. I suggest: wrap real water with thin, strong, flexible silicone. Make it 3D hexagonal, or pentagonal like 3d honeycomb shapes. When frozen, the little guys will be able to move into place in a flexible sheet ideal for icing your aches and pains. The silicone will keep the stuff in shape but be flexible while cold. Put the shapes in a sturdy but flexible bag (maybe more silicone), and tuck that (after frozen) into a velcro-riffic back brace wrap. Blammo!

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Neighborhood Re-use machines

Following on my neighbor-share ideas, this one kind of sums it up. The clothing shredder and snowblower share are good, but how about a shared wood chipper and paper press? We put so much recycling out that we have to pay to put out and yet it will become a free raw material for someone else to make something from. We practically and actually give away a great deal of excellent raw materials to other people. Is it going to the city? We have to pay to have the city/county/state haul away my recycling so they can use it for their own profit? I'm not exactly sure it's a profit, but I think it must be for the aluminum at least. In any case, small fabricators, smelters and the like are around the corner technologically and they should be actually around the corner in your neighborhood.

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Toddler Animal Tether

Okay, so I didn't want to use the word "leash", but there it is. And, I'm okay with admitting that my very active new daughter may indeed need to be, ahem, curtailed. To that end, I don't want it to look like I don't love my kid. I feel for the parents of active kids who must use the body leash to keep the kids from literally running away/into the street. So, I figure if you must go that route, why not make it cool and fun? Make the leash that holds the kid into an animal tail! You can go the full nine yards and make the entire animal outfit for the kid, making it look like you are holding the tail of a tiger! My kids a future athlete, he's a real cheetah! Takes some of the stigma away from what really is a parent trying to give the kid walking freedom of sorts but needing to keep the kid nearby until they learn to manage themselves. For the record, had I been tethered a bit, I wouldn't have had to announce my name in Kmart so often when I was a rowdy kid myself.

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