Good and Bad Ideas

My brain never shuts up. No matter what I am doing, I am always doing something else too. Here is the latest fruit of that defect. I present the Comprehensive List of Humanity’s Good and Bad Ideas, 1st Edition. I may post revised editions in the future, but I don’t see many of these switching lists anytime soon, so changes would require Humanity come up with new, good ideas.

Humanity’s Good Ideas

  • Crop Rotation & Small Scale Organic Farming
  • Bread & Cheese, any combinations thereof
  • Storytelling
  • Shoes
  • Music and Musical Instruments
  • Hammocks
  • Wine
  • Clothing (admitted only begrudgingly)

Humanity’s Bad Ideas

  • Everything not on the Good Idea list.

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10 Responses to “Good and Bad Ideas”

  1. Josh Crews
    11. August 2008 at 09:02

    I think your Good list is comprehensive. Perhaps wind-powered boating could go on there, but I’m not committed that your list needs revision.

    If you really wanted to live the Good life, you could backpack around southern Europe with your hammock, living off bread, wine and cheese; sharing stories at night with your portable musical instruments; and slowly moving between volunteering on organic famrs. Many have entered that life and never looked back.

  2. Josh
    11. August 2008 at 10:13

    Oddly, backpacks almost made it on the good ideas list, but then I decided they were only a good idea relative to not having a backpack. There has to be a better idea for carrying stuff.

    I have thought about that sort of life, and it was the genesis for the list. southern Europe would probably be the ideal place to do it.

    If boating were to make it on the list, it would be muscle powered boating, but I think it is better left on the Bad Ideas list. That doesn’t mean it’s useless, just fraught with consequences and peril, and really, we could live a pretty good life without it.

    Thanks!

  3. meg
    13. August 2008 at 20:44

    something in me needs this list to expand. i just don’t know how it ever will.

  4. Science Heroes
    13. August 2008 at 22:47

    Here’s a bad idea: lists.

  5. Science Heroes
    13. August 2008 at 22:47

    You that right, suck it Josh.

  6. Science Heroes
    13. August 2008 at 22:48

    SUCK IT!

  7. Josh
    14. August 2008 at 07:23

    I didn’t put Lists on the Good List, so…

  8. Ryan
    16. August 2008 at 00:26

    As I was reading, I was thinking, “He’s got to have hammocks on the good list.” I got a hammock for Father’s Day. So cliche, but so sweet.

  9. Josh
    16. August 2008 at 14:54

    Maybe it’s cliche, I never thought of them as a FD gift.

    Hammocks are brilliant ’cause you get a comfy place to lounge or sleep off the ground for virtually no investment (from an energy/time perspective).

  10. Science Heroes
    24. August 2008 at 14:41

    Yeah, but I said: SUCK IT!

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