Whiteheads and Wolves

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I have a brilliant new idea for a reality game show: it came to me while Dy’s mom was telling us about a visit she made to San Francisco with her seniors group.

Picturing all these old people wandering around the tourist traps of the city made me think of what a nightmare it would be collecting all of them after their alloted meandering time was up.

So I was thinking, what if you had college students with radios hunting for them all in squads? What if they were all cranked into a panic and given instructions to not lose a single member of a giant group of potential Alzheimer’s patients? Some of them would be driving the collection vans, some would be on more maneuverable “spotter” vehicles like scooters or motorcycles, maybe in teams, “wolf packs,” which could deploy a whole squad of herdsmen at one end of a mall and pick them up on the other end after their jogging sweep of the area.

Sounds like a show doesn’t it? To make it extra dangerous, I mean interesting as a game show, you would give the seniors an incentive to run- they are all released from a central location and given a head start; if they are still free after two hours then they get prize money.

The name of the show: “Whiteheads and Wolves”

GROW

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Very nutty puzzle game- the object seems to be to develop this minature red planet/satellite.

You add all these elements to the red sphere, and the order that you add them changes the degree of their development.

The objects, NOT in order of the solution:

  • PIPE
  • GEAR
  • PROP
  • DISH
  • EGG
  • LADDER
  • BLOCK
  • ORANGE
  • TV
  • TORNADO
  • HILL
  • PLATFORM

Web link of note: GROW
(At http://yellow.ribbon.to/~grow/)

BLEEX

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okay, it’s not exactly what I wanted- but it’s still pretty cool.

The primary objective of the BLEEX project at U.C. Berkeley is to create a self-powered exoskeleton for strength and endurance enhancement of humans that is ergonomic, highly maneuverable, mechanically robust, lightweight and durable.

The Berkeley exoskeleton system provides soldiers, disaster relief workers, wildfire fighters, and other emergency personnel the ability to carry major loads such as food, rescue equipment, first-aid supplies, communications gear and weaponry with minimal effort over any type of terrain for extended periods of time. The vision for the device is that it will provide a versatile transport platform for mission-critical equipment.

Web link of note: BLEEX
(At http://www.me.berkeley.edu/hel/bleex.htm)

I Want Stuntmen!

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From hearing stuntman Corey Eubanks on the radio, I learned a few things:

  1. Tom Cruise does not “do all his own stunts”

  2. Stuntmen do not earn that much- there is a “scale” just like other actors
  3. Therefore, stuntmen are afffordable for independent film

I want car stunts in my movies! Guns! Maaaybe explosions; I know they are pretty but don’t really motivate plot.

They might cost more than getting street racers / sideshow guys to do car stunts for free, but a lot less sketchy. Although maybe we could recruit those guys and make them more legit by making our own stunt company up here in the SF Bay Area.