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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 3, 2017 at 9:58 pm
I don't think of anything useful, I just typically to things ass-backwards when problem solving.
I put it down to being left-handed, because I'm convinced lefties' brains are wired differently and we don't think the same.
Or yknow, maybe it's just me being an idiot.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 3, 2017 at 10:07 pm
(July 3, 2017 at 8:11 pm)Puke Skywalker Wrote: I'm writing a novel.
Sometimes I think it's a brilliant idea. Riveting story, good characters, inspired, important for the world.
Other times I think it's a pile of shit and a ridiculous waste of time.
Then I change my mind a few more times.
Someday, maybe I'll publish it.
30 pages in, I know this exact feeling all too well.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 4, 2017 at 12:03 am
When I took out a permit to upgrade the knob-and-tube wiring on the main floor of my home, I had to figure out how to get the old wiring out of the plaster ceiling without removing a huge swath of ceiling to get at it. This is what I figured out:
- Remove old light fixture and open it up a bit, enough to install supports for the new fixture;
- Peering into the hole, determine the route the old wires took to get to the light, and hopefully spot one or both of the white ceramic knobs securing the wires;
- Measure from the hole to the first set of posts, then open up a slot in the ceiling -- just enough to get my hand and a screwdriver in there to unscrew the posts.
- Measure from that slot to the next set of posts and repeat.
- After all the old crap has been disconnected and removed, install new wiring.
- Keep ceiling open until after the wiring has passed inspection, then close each slot with a couple of pieces of new wooden lath (yes, you can still buy that stuff!), re-plaster, and paint.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 4, 2017 at 11:51 am
I'm a biologist, so I've made little discoveries and designed experiments and bioassays, it's all rather boring. My publications don't contain eureka moments, just chemistry and efficacy stuff. The best, neatest thing I've done is a tie between photographing fleas feeding using macro video (with the help of my husband who built some of the specialty equipment) and designing a really neat bioassay that I can't talk about. 
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 4, 2017 at 11:54 am
(July 4, 2017 at 11:51 am)Mermaid Wrote: I'm a biologist, so I've made little discoveries and designed experiments and bioassays, it's all rather boring. My publications don't contain eureka moments, just chemistry and efficacy stuff. The best, neatest thing I've done is a tie between photographing fleas feeding using macro video (with the help of my husband who built some of the specialty equipment) and designing a really neat bioassay that I can't talk about.
Well, for a 'Godless Whore', you certainly have other talents too Mermaid. 
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 4, 2017 at 2:14 pm
(July 2, 2017 at 6:40 am)JackRussell Wrote: I have always struggled with really original thinking. I can read and absorb what others have written and decide wether I agree, disagree or simply don't know. I am just not a very inventive thinker.
My wife had brilliant idea of a collapsible ironing board for people that live in flats. But a quick google search showed you could buy one for 15 quid at the local Argos, so back to the collapsible drawing board.
Any inventors, novel philosophies or not batshit insane scientific hypotheses that members here have had a Eureka moment with?
N.B flats=apartments for those that do not speak the Queen's English.
Not for things like that although I did have an idea for a music running app that would sonly play music at the right speed if you were going at the pace you'd set yourself, too slow and it would slow down...you get the picture.
But I write science fantasy and have had what I think are original thoughts, although I am one of seven billion so I may just not have encountered them elsewhere.
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RE: Have You Ever Had a Brilliant Idea
July 4, 2017 at 2:19 pm
(July 3, 2017 at 8:11 pm)Puke Skywalker Wrote: I'm writing a novel.
Sometimes I think it's a brilliant idea. Riveting story, good characters, inspired, important for the world.
Other times I think it's a pile of shit and a ridiculous waste of time.
Then I change my mind a few more times.
Someday, maybe I'll publish it.
My only advice: Just write what you enjoy writing. And read my sig at the bottom of my posts
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