Well, as I have a small break, I figured I would drop a little nonsense on this dead place once known as Fluid Imagination, also known as FI, also known as where I go to see what people have Twittered because nobody writes anything anymore.

I will start with two things that could help the world…well in the first case, not “the world” but some people in Grizzly Bear country. As the grizzly population grows, they obviously come into contact with people, which mostly leads to a lot of dead bears, but almost a billion dollars in dead cattle. But after spending an hour watching the Discovery special and feeling bad for said bears, I spent maybe ten minutes thinking and another twenty minutes researching the various landscapes around these areas, and I came up with a solution. If somebody — probably a group effort between the cattle people and various government agencies — bought a lot (in the tens of thousands) of apple trees and planted them in the area between the bears’ habitat and their old habitat (where all the people live), the bears would have no need to come where the humans are to go looking for food. The logistics of this are daunting but it seems like an in-win situation for everyone.

The second one might scare some people (and I might be one of them), but in a perfect world (like the one Kyle believes would exist if Vermont left the union), it would be beneficial to everyone. Let’s get rid of receipts.

I am not saying we should get rid of the proof of buying something, but we should get rid of the actual paper receipt. My plan would be for every consumer in the US to get a number (like a SS#), and every time they bought something, the proof of sale would be electronically scanned into their online account. This saves the environment because of all the paper and printer ink it saves, but it also helps people like me who lose receipts. In the new system, if I wanted to return something, then I could print the saved receipt out…though eventually there would be a way do this electronically, but that comes later. Anyone visiting the US would get this Consumer Pass Number. The scary part would be a person being able to see what your spending habits are, but this is a no brainer.

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India has a $2500 car.

Let me see if I get this right: A place where 98% of the people are living on like $2 a day, and where the other 2% are millionaires, is now offering a $2500 car. Who is the market for this?

Also, every time I see any type of picture or TV clip from India, there is a traffic jam. Do they really need more people on the road?

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I do not know if anyone watches Lost, but I plowed through all three seasons in about 10 days, and I must say it is a very entertaining show. What is not entertaining is that by watching so many shows in a row my brain could not really deal, and every night I would have a dream that put me on the island being chased by weird smoke monsters. This also happened when I plowed through Heroes in 2 weeks, damn you Sylar. Shows like Lost and Heroes need to be be watched weekly, just to give your brain time to grasp what happened, and in the case of Lost, be totally confused but able to theorize possible scenarios.

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And those are my ramblings this week.