Member (and currently volunteering as a director) of Protospace, Calgary's most existent makerspace.

Elsewhere online I'm mostly known as [PointyOintment]. I briefly considered requesting a change to that here, but then I could get mixed up with [po].

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I try to keep my idea titles to four or fewer major words when reasonably possible, because I largely agree with [blissmiss]'s short title philosophy. Ideas I posted before I started that still have their longer titles.

I keep a list in Evernote of ideas to post here. Whenever I post an idea here, I add at the bottom of the idea body a line of the format "X/Y [Z]", where X is how many ideas from my list I've posted (including the current idea), Y is the total number of ideas on my list on the day of posting, and Z is either the date I thought up that idea or the date I added that idea to my list. (I started recording these dates on my list on 2017-10-02.) This is to facilitate analysis of my progress in posting my ideas, by myself or anyone else who cares to (probably nobody). "n/a" means I posted the idea here without putting it on my list first—this is usually the same day or close to it.

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List of favorite ideas of my own (of those posted so far), as [2fries] might have suggested we do:

1. Give Wild Elephants Smartphones

2. Resilient Wi-Fi Mesh Network

3. AED Launcher

4. Cloud-based mosquito killer application

5. Bug fix commitment

6. Social syuzhet study

7. Inkjet–laser hybrid printer

8. Immortal fluorescent lamp

9. Tetherbullet

10. Printed/patterned seatbelts

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List of favorite ideas posted by others, started 2017-04-13:

• Joint Parade Logical Operator Convention [hippo] -(mainly for the interesting discussion)- http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Joint_20Parade_20Logical_20Operator_20Convention (added 2017-04-13)

• MWI Tech [beanangel] -(for, e.g. "The MWI solves most ethics problems")- http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/MWI_20Tech (added 2018-04-19)

• How To Think [Ian Tindale] -(because thinking modalities is a pet subject of mine, and the idea and on-topic discussion are pretty interesting)- https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/How_20To_20Think (added 2018-01-17)

• Bussard Centrifuge [MisterQED] https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Bussard_20Centrifuge (added 2019-03-11)

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List of ideas that aren't necessarily my favorites, but to which I want to keep handy links:

• Idea Dough Garage Swap [FarmerJohn] -(trade nascent ideas)- http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Idea_20Dough_20Garage_20Swap (added 2018-02-10)

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Favorite quotations from other halfbakers: