Gee, what a "dilemma" ?

The word, somewhat garbled, is from the Greek di+limnj - two lagoons : regrets with either choice. It actually is "dilemna".

Just sayin', carry on.
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Undeniably Neat Things:
• GM Futurliner
• Steinway's Double Keyboard Piano
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[marked-for-tagline] :
Powered by Newton... spinning in his grave
On Dancer! On Prancer! On Supercapacitor!
Faster than a receding mullet
Clod Computing
Kvetch of the Day
Navel Intelligence
Cannonbollocks
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Some Favorite Ideas:
This was going to be a list of other people's ideas but everybody that's been here more than a couple years has at least a double handful that really strike my fancy. So... back to the narcissism

A Small Portfolio Gallery (my own ideas: favourites, or ones that I'm promoting... sixty something of them, for your consideration)
http://www.halfbakery.com/view/fu=28101:fs=x1:s=d:d=dicwrh:dh=1:dn=100:ds=1:n=portfolio:i=:t=portfolio

Ego Wall filched from [21Quest]
http://www.halfbakery.com/view/fu=28101:s=U:d=Univ:dh=2:dn=80:ds=3:n=:i=:t=FlyingToaster
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Every once in awhile I decide to prune the idea list a bit: get rid of ideas that no longer amuse me or ones that seem to be tipping the overall feng shui too far into "practical". The following are some that I sorta wish I hadn't deleted along with their annotations, written here as a future self-caution... I may repost them and hope nobody notices.

Teflon Bucket - light-use steel bucket with teflon lining
Non-Circular Gear Pair PTO - compensates for engine power pulses
Cricket Bat Wind Power - simple tech-free wind power conversion
Geisha Fan Wind Power - as above
Abandoned Surface Mine Arcology - build a city in a big hole in the ground
Compound Blimp - a tiny unmanned dirigible tows the blimp around
Highway Stop Regenerative Ramping - use gravity, not brakes or gas
Triple Decker Highway Intersection - as above - reposted as "Sky Roundabout"
Easy Mapping Dietary Supplements - "this pill equals a serving of Brussel Sprouts"
Man's Washing Machine - "one button" washing machines are annoying
Media File System - physical tracks are "sectors" for large sequential files
Memory Jewellery - what ? recorder ring, etc.
Padded Toothbrush Head - ow
Parking Forests - trees yes, storm drains no
Pulsejet Auxiliary Engine - takeoff assist or engine-out emergency
Refrigerator Pedestal - for anybody over 4' tall to see into the freezer and fridge
Venetian Garage Door - works as well as any other design and looks neat
Aquatic Weightloss Habitat - alternative to lying in bed waiting for Oprah to show up
Window/Awning Combination - oversized outside pane, top-hinged
Automobile Pre-Start Warming/Cooling System - remote engine starting is dumb
Car Brolly - lightweight sun, bird and rain block
Pykrete Flood Wall System - water's available; just ship in sawdust
Lunar Rail System - reposted as Lunar Rail Distributed Infrastructure
Hybrid 3rd Pedal Control Schema - the auxiliary power (regen/launch) amount is controlled through a third pedal
Manually Powered Refrigerator: what it says.

Gee what an ego... anyways, after so much time on walkabout, I might even post a couple of things : Tongue Twizzler - my tongue goes autonomous at the dentist, so a fidget-spinner to keep it occupied
Explosion Lighter : something zippo special edition... not sure what I was thinking
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And, furthermore...
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[Dec 08 2007, last modified Nov 02 2024]

2nd Amendment Proof of Need (+3, -4)
4 Cylinder Compound-Mode Engine (+6, -1)
7½ League Boots (0)
A Rat's Ass (+4, -3)
Abdominal Snowman (+8, -4)
Abettor Mouse (+3)
Account Housekeeping - Flagged Links View (+5)
Ad-Based Student Sponsorship (+5, -1)
Aftermarket Stop/Start Kit (0)
Airburst Bullets (-1)
Airport Thrift Store (+14)
Anarchy Voting (+6)
Anti-Flywheel (+6)
Anti-Zamboni (+7, -2)
Antistatic Cat Strap (+6)
Apathy Parade (+13, -1)
Aquaballoon: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Solution (+18, -1)
Artificial Limbs (+2)
Asymmetric Cylinder Displacement Engine (+2)
Asynchronous Voting (+10)
Auto-Ornithoptering Kite (+7)
Autoornithoptercopter (+4)
Baba Yaga Crockpot (+7)
Babelsynch (+1)
Backpack Mangle (+6, -2)
Ball Bearing Dispenser (+19)
Barnyard Waterslide (+4)
Battery/Battery Hybriding (+3)
Battlephones (+6)
Beard Embedded Nixie Tube Chew Counter (+1)
Bergboats (0)
Bernoulli's Spaceplane (+5, -2)
Blanket Apportioner (+6)
Bluetooth Suede Shoes (+3)
Bolo "AntiGravity" Device (+1, -4)
Bonsai Rainhat (+4)
Bonus Voting (-4)
Bow Tie Reading Glasses (+8)
Box'O'Mimes (+20, -1)
Brassiere-Matched Tops (+8, -1)
Brick Through a Window.com (+4, -1)
Brown-Note Assistance (-8)
Bubblewrap Condom (+9)
Bumperless Ramping Vehicles (+4, -1)
Business Card Grenade (+3)
Butt Chirper (+8, -1)
Butt Perfume (+4, -2)
ButtCast Pillows (+3, -1)
Butterfly Bow Tie (+18, -1)
Butterfly Knife, Fork & Spoon (+6)
Café Banco (+3)
Calliope Snowball Mortar (+7)
Cannelloni Pillow (+5)
Car Plumage (+5)
Carbon ChronoSequestration (+1, -2)
"Cardless" Card (+3, -1)
Cash for the Barren (+2, -3)
Cash-o-pedia (+6)
'Cat on Keyboard' Key (+9)
Cat Turntable (+3, -3)
Celebrity Coffee (+2, -2)
Certificate of Ignorance (+9)
Chainmail Pasta (+13)
Charity Tickets (+3)
Charlotte's Crocheting Printer (+9)
Chat Enhancer (+8, -2)
Chromatic Scale Clock (+8)
Chubby Rocketships (+3)
Cities of Magnificent Objects (+11)
Clankies (+4)
Clockwatchers' Clock (+11)
Coastal City Wastewater Relocation (+10)
Combover Toupee (+11, -1)
Command Chess (+6)
Computerized Abacus (+4, -1)
Conservation of Energy Chess (+10)
Construction Machinery Chess Set (+5, -1)
Convertible Movie (+4)
Coronavirus Body Scratcher (+3)
Cow Fart Burner (+4, -7)
Crankcase Sub/Supercharging (+1)
CryoSaw (+2)
Cuppa Clock (+6)
Cymbals-Monkey Grabber (+3)
Dandelions-B-Gone Garden Gnomes (+13, -2)
Darts Blinders (-1)
Day Hammock (+2)
Dazzle Pattern Clothing (+1, -1)
Defenestration 'Bot (+7)
Dentist's Drill Cozy (+3)
Desiccant Beads Hand Dryer (+8, -1)
Didgeridoo Kettle (+8, -1)
Directional Fart Detector (-4)
Director's Cut Episodes on DVD (+1, -1)
Disco Ball LED's (+1)
Dish Dryer & Defroster (+4)
Doctor Doolittle Device (+2)
Donut Piston (+4)
Door Blower (+3)
Doorknob Jigglelock (+11)
Doppler Effect for Pipe-Organ (+4)
Dragonsback Umbrella (+9)
Dreams'R'Us (+1, -3)
Driver Tilt Steering (+2)
Duck Feather Brolly (+12, -1)
Ear Wigs (+3)
Edison's Mellotron (+6)
Effigy Firelogs (+12)
Egocentric Clock (+4)
Ejection Saddle (+3, -1)
Electric Driveway-Ice Chisel (+3)
Electric Flywheel Hybrid Hybrid (+2)
Electric Sickle-Bar Mower (+2)
Electrical Maze Key/Lock System (+3, -1)
Electrolysis Painting (+6)
Elliptical Video Format (+3)
Enhanced Drinking Fountain (+5)
EU(R)BA (+1)
Exoskeletal House (+6)
Expanded Meh Indication (0)
Exterior Spray Building Cooling System (+3, -2)
Fake Dogpoop Landmine (+1)
Fanfold Bookbinding (+3)
Fanjet Clothes Dryer (+3)
Farting Fish Ice Cubes (+7)
Faux Guns (+1, -4)
FBI Search Engine (+1)
Feng Shui: The Board Game (+12, -1)
Fingernail Scraper (+4)
Fingernails on Chalkboard Alarm Clock (+1)
Fish Mixer (+13, -1)
Flavoured Litter (+3)
Flip Mask (+2)
Flocking House (+5)
Flying Cows (+6)
Flying, Flatulating Kayak with a Moustache (+9, -1)
Fogging Car Alarm (+2)
Freelance Bureaucrat (+11, -1)
Frequent Flyer Cacheing (+1)
Frog Hat (+4, -1)
Fuel Filler Door Cup Holder (+1)
Full Metal Burka (+3)
Furniture Prop (+3)
Güber (+4)
Game of Thrones Chess (+2)
Garbage Collection Trolleys (+3)
Garden Daleks (+5)
Garden Gnomes (+15)
Garden Variety CD (+2)
Gas Centrifuge Nuclear Reactor (+2)
Gauss Air Gun (+3)
Geomagnetic Motor (0)
Ghost Cylinder Engine (+2)
Gilligan's Orbital Island (+7)
Gingerbees (+7)
Gravity Swing (+7)
Greased Pig Chess (+6)
Green Shower (+12, -2)
Group Hooping (+2)
Gun Loudener (+1)
Hamsterball House (+12)
Harmonica Dentures (+11)
HB-specific Graphic Emoticons (+1, -3)
Heavy Metal Chess Set (+9, -1)
Heliotropic Cafe Umbrellas (+17)
Home Defense Immobilising Airbags (+12, -3)
Home Desalinator/HVAC (+3)
Home Distillery (+7)
Home Lifeboat (+8)
Home Thunderstorm Simulator (+18)
Honeycomb Ergonomics (+1, -1)
Hoverdress (+10, -1)
Hula Dancer Duster (+8)
Hybrid Rocket/Flywheel Spaceship Propulsion (+1, -4)
Hydrogen Tunnel (+3)
I-2+1 Compound Expansion IC Engine (+4)
I have a cold/the flu (+4)
Ice Floe Vacation (+8, -1)
Ice Table (+8)
iFaux'n 5 (+2)
iFireworks (+3, -3)
Ikea Pianö (+10, -1)
Immunization Sandbox (+9)
Inner-Wrist Wristwatch (0)
Intelligence Filter (+4)
International Rescue Museum (+1)
Intrinsic Value Currency (+1, -1)
Ion Zap Gun (+9)
Isosceles Trapezoidal Bed (+7)
ISS Weathervane (+6)
Item Display by Country of Manufacture (+6)
Jacob's Fountain (+9)
Journalism Schooling (+2)
Junk Exchange Lottery (+5)
Kama Sutris (+3)
Kitchen Sink Heater (0)
Laptop Airbag (+11)
Laptop Lock (+6)
Laser Brolly (+1, -1)
Laser Burner Printer (0)
Lasso Strimmer (+2)
Lava Kettle (+6)
Lawn Painting (+3)
Lawn Spider (+4)
LCO2 Hydraulic Hybrid (0)
Lend-an-Ear (+5)
Light Aircraft Trailer (+6, -1)
Light Based Burglar Discombobulator (+6)
Lighter Lighter (+5)
Linear Clothes Washer & Dryer (+11)
List of (Self-)Deleted Ideas (+1, -1)
Little Box Maker (+7)
Looking for a couple of old ideas (+1)
Low Maintenance Paint Pattern (+12)
LOx Mini-Torpedo for oil-well collapse (+5)
LTA Positive Crankcase Ventilation (+2)
Lunar Biometrics (+9, -1)
Lunar Rail Distributed Infrastructure (+3)
MacGyver™ (+15)
Madder Horn (+4)
Magnetically Rifled Smoothbore (+5, -1)
Massive Coastal Wind Turbine Array (+1)
Master Craftsman Slinkys (+16)
Match Heads to Bodies Service (+2)
Matryoshka Delivery Space Habitat (+2)
Maxwell's Demon's Demon (+3, -1)
Mechanical Hot Water Heating (+5)
Meridian Mirror Time Convention (+7, -2)
Microwave Glove (+6)
Milkshake Drilling Platform (+12, -1)
Minimalist SpellChecker (0)
Mirror Mulch (+6)
Misc Water Features (+4, -6)
MMORPG ScreenSaver (+15, -1)
Modern Low Speed Airliner (+20)
Molecular Scrabble (+7)
Mono-Hybrid (+9)
Monodoor Fridge (+3)
Month-End Marker (+1, -6)
Moon Watch (+45, -3)
Moustache Handlebars (+8)
Mushroom Caps (+4)
Napping Helmet (+1)
National Geographic™ Hotel Chain (+6, -1)
National Protest Day (+3)
Necktie Heater (+9)
Netherislands (+9)
New Statuary Types (+5, -1)
Nielsen Gullibility Ratings (+3)
NiFe Laptop Batteries (+5, -1)
NO-Code (+1)
No-Sig Flag (0)
Non-Potable "Drinking Water" Bottles (+3, -1)
NSFPE Genset (+1)
Nuke Antarctica (+4, -2)
"Nuke" Recharging of Portable Devices (+13)
Offshore Oil Rig Cozy (+8)
Old-Tennies Street-Lights (+9)
One-Armed Diet Bandit (+2)
One Way Subway Rush Hour Service (+4)
Orbital Hovercraft (+8)
Orbital Mill (+2)
Pac-Man Baby Stroller (+21)
Paintball AntiAircraft Shells (+5)
Paper Airplane Dispenser (+30)
Parking Balloon (+8)
Parking Chirp (+3)
Personal Suspended-Animation Device (+1, -1)
Pestilence Disinfection (+1)
Pickpocket Bodyguards (+12)
Pickup Convertible Cargo-Roof (+2)
Pickup Truck-Bed Bar Footrails (+1, -3)
Pickup Truck-Bed Fountain (+3, -1)
Pinecone Solar-Cell Assembly (+2)
Ping Pong Ball Insulation (+3)
Piston Crown Compression Ring (+2, -1)
Pizza Divider (+3)
Pizzabox Flywheel Case (+5)
Planets & Asteroids (+5, -2)
Plush Toy-Castle (+11)
Pneumatic Clock (+7)
Politician Litmus Test (+2)
Poop'n'Scoop Tupperware Container (+2)
Portable Cat Door (+4, -2)
Pot Extender (+13)
Pots and Pans Press (+1)
Powered Frisbees (+11)
Powerline Slackers (+3)
Prank Thumbdrive (+21, -1)
"Prayer Wheel" Vacuum Blimp (+10, -1)
Precision Nut Opener (+7)
Probabilities Website (0)
Propeller Beanie Drone (+2)
public:nuisance (+2)
Pykrete Driveway (+3, -1)
Quickest Chess Tourney (+2, -3)
R/Stereo (+1, -2)
Railgun Nailgun (+17)
Rainbow Tail Lights (+1)
Rarefaction A/C (+2)
Rave Shoes (+3)
RC Dirigible Galley (+3, -1)
Reading Owl (+6)
Reading Parrot (+6)
Real Outer Space Vacuum (+8)
"Realistic Rooster" Alarm Clock (+7, -1)
Recursively Notated Sudoku (0)
Restacked Rockets (+5, -1)
Retractable Tie II (0)
Retro Spam II (+3)
Reverse Spellchecker (+7)
Reversely-Hinged Wheelie Bin (+1)
Reversible Baseball Cap (+3)
Reversible Tinfoil Hat (+5, -1)
Riot Control Pigeons (+8, -1)
Robberfly Airport (+1)
Robbers (+5, -1)
Rocking Chair Conversion Kit (+9)
Rocks (+2)
RollerRowing (+1)
Rotary Rotary Engine (+4)
Rubber Winter Sidewalk (+12, -1)
Safety Cellphone (+1)
Sailing Airship (+7)
Sausage Chocks (+9)
Scented Bubble-Wrap (+1, -1)
Scented Clothing (+5, -3)
Sea Hawg (+3)
SEAbread (+6)
Seasonal Orbital Advertising Plan (+4, -2)
Security Checkpoint Thrillride (+6)
Segway Snow Plow (+7)
Self-Extinguishing Candle VI (0)
Self Levelling Table (+15)
Sensory Deprivation Sculpturarium (+9)
SGHA Junkfood Labelling System (0)
Shingle Bells (+6)
Shower Utility Belt (+3)
Silver Bubbles Office Park (+4)
Single Source House Lighting (+6, -5)
Sinisterwear (+3)
Sinktop Air-Conditioner (+3)
Skillet Mangle (+10)
Skirmish Chess (+7)
Skirt Fogger (+5)
Sky Roundabout (+1)
Sky Yacht (+5)
Slitherway (+12)
Slow Burn Orion Drive (+2)
Smoking Boots (+8)
Snotrifuge (+8)
Snow Catapult (+4)
Snowforts for Everyone (+12)
Snowglobe Clackers (+2)
Snowglobe Shooter (+2, -1)
Social Snorkel (+5)
Solar Desalination Aquaduct (+16, -1)
Solar Droud Hat (+1, -1)
Solar Lighting (+3, -4)
Solar-Oven Atmospheric-Water Extractor (+2)
Solar Powered Geomagnetically Driven "Perpetual Motion" Spintop (+9)
Solar Powered Plasma-Cycle Generator (+3)
Solar Powered Robot Wars On the Beach (+16)
Solid Fuel Lighter V (+3)
"Sounds of the Jungle" Sex-Noise Masking Device (+19, -1)
Soupfly Bowl (+4, -1)
Soylent Green Emergency Kit (+2)
Spaceframe Mountain (+4)
Spanck, The Gay Vulcan (+7, -6)
Sphereverb (+4, -1)
Spider Shoes (+9)
SpiderMouse (+2)
Spinnaker's Dream (+7)
Split-Cycle Compounding Engine (0)
Spoked Wheel Doorhandles (+13, -1)
Spring Driveshaft (+1, -1)
Squad-Portable Steam-Powered Catapult (+1)
Squiggle Cylinder (+1, -1)
Squirrel Cage Window Fan (+4)
Stay at Home Children (0)
Steam/Air Hybrid (+6, -1)
Steam Cooled Rotary Engine (0)
Steam Shuttle (+2, -3)
Steel Drummobile (+6, -1)
Steel Moustache (+2)
Steganographic URL Text (+3, -1)
Sten Submachine-Hammer (+11)
Stick-on Holograph Theft Deterrent (+3, -3)
Stonehenge Table (+9)
Streaming Commercials Website (+4, -1)
Street Storage Vendor (+4)
Styrofoam Pizza Box (+2, -9)
Sub-Audio Stringed Instrument (+5)
Sudoku as a Religious Exercise (0)
Supercapacitor Cordless Screwdriver (+17)
Supercharged Ramjet (+2)
Supercritical-Fluid Common-Rail Direct-Injection (+3, -1)
Sure Thing Barf Bag (+1, -1)
Swimshade (+1)
SwingDesk II (+4)
T-Shirt Stays (+1)
Tablet Calligraphy Pen (+1)
Teenager's Room Carpet (+9)
Teeth Backlighting (+13)
Telecalculator (+7)
Terminator Butterfly Air Conditioner (+3)
Texting Glasses (+2)
"The Flying Dutchman" (+19)
The Great U.S. Mexico Border Mall (+5)
The Last Straw (+3)
The Surfing Channel (+1)
The Town Square: an e-Canvas Painting (+6)
Thermal Battery Pair (+2, -1)
Thermoelectric Blanket (+7)
Thermonuclear Roulette (+9, -1)
Tinfoil Hat Repair Kit (+12, -1)
Tinfoil Sail Hat (+2)
Tiny Garage (+1)
Tiny Typewriter (+15)
Toast Planer (+5)
Tongue Pick (+9)
Tonsorial Theory of Evolution (+10, -2)
Torque Battery (+3, -2)
Traffic Management Escalator (0)
Trapdoor Chess (+6)
Treadle Power-Assist Typewriter (+2, -2)
Tree of Reflection (+8)
Tree Siding (+3)
Tribble Alarm (+6, -2)
Tribble Hat (+2)
Tribblephone (+4, -2)
Trim Dude with a Big Package (+6)
Tube Piano (+6)
Tundra Treeline (+13, -4)
Turbobrella (+5)
Turbojet Plunger (+2)
Um Filter (+6, -1)
Umbrella Xmas Tree (+6)
UN Citizenship for Refugees (+3)
Underbedlight (+10)
Underground Car Silo (0)
Untranslator (+2)
Urinal Chimes (+3)
USB Drive Lock (+11)
USB Gadget Holder (+12)
V-Bed (+2, -1)
Vacuum Brick Insulation (+1)
Vacuum Reducer (+34, -3)
Van de Graaff Bugzapper (+10)
Van der Burglar Alarm (+2)
Van der Drone (+3)
Van der Saran Wrap (+7)
Volumetric Bathtub (+10)
Voter Confidence Term (+3)
Vuvuzela Blow Guns (-1)
Wall'o'Blimps (0)
Wasp Nest Car Security (+7)
Watchband Counterweight (+6)
Water Powered Lawnmower (+13, -4)
Waterproof e-Reader (+3)
Weasel Gun (+8)
Weebleware (+4, -1)
Weight Loss Balloon Animals (0)
Wet/Dry/On-Fire Vac (+2)
Whale Kettle (+6)
What's That Drip ? (+7)
Whirlpool Cylinder-Head (-4)
Wind Turban (+9, -1)
Windmill Powered Vehicle (+5)
Winter Bathrobe (+4)
Winter Caddy (+2)
Wireless Client Channel Polling (0)
Wolfram Fitness Weights (+2)
Xylophountain (+5, -1)
Yarps (+5)
Yo-Yo Clock (+6)
You Have Pastry (+6, -1)
Zoo'dos (+1)

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