Engineering Dreamer Gifts

I'm thinking of becoming an architect, now that you don't have to know math. You don't? I read an architect's blog. He debunked the "good at math" myth. He said he never went past algebra 2 and doesn't really need to know any more than his 5th grade kid does. I think I'll go in on the ground floor. Maybe design suspension bridges before working my way up to skyscrapers. HOJ. I am never driving or going inside a building again in life. If I need to find the hypotenuse of a bridge thingy, there's

"These projections don't make sparkles shoot out my ass."

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

The fate of the emigrant

We need a new eco project. Ok. Let's get locally grown food into the school cafeteria. What's our strategy? We can start with the potatoes. I'll make the poster. We want home fries.

"He might not have got the job with Google, but they weren't going to stop Brian skateboarding to the office."

"Remember now, anything is DIY-abe if you just do it yourself."

Barcode Dreams

Ideas Ahead of their Time

Standard endings for sci-fi movies...

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

Computer Hitching a Ride to Silicon Valley

Lemonade Stand With Free Wi-Fi

"I just need help getting started. A little seed money."

Coffee Shop and Battery Charging Station

S.S.dot.com

"If I've got to work for a tyrant . . . I may as well work for myself."

'I begin to question whether this startup ever had venture capital.'

"You're just gaming down there? Shouldn't you be issuing your first IPO for some billion dollar internet enterprise you've created?"

Brain Power

"We'll analyze the only thing left to analyze: what people throw away."

"In pre-school I was an overachiever. Now, in first grade, math is threatening my reputation."

'I'm here to ask you for funding for my further development.'

Danae's Celebrity Career: 'I don't know where to begin in deciding what I want to be when I grow up...I want people to shut and leave me alone, and I need lots of attention, so...'

'I shall now hand over to our guest speaker, management unit XT-56.'

'Much to his disappointment, Thag's coffee percolator was an invention ahead of its time.

'I forgot how creepy you look in the dark.'

"So, gentlemen.... By investing in this time vortex manipulator, we will be able to cross the bridges before we come to them."

"'How to Buy Tickets on Bezos' Spaceship so You Can Live to See Your Teens,' by Chloe Butler."

And so, Rudy unwittingly became an investor in The Infant Restaurant Critic. At first, he was furious having lost his weekly paycheck. But then it dawned on him: He was back in the dot-com game – for the first time in 20 years. He was practically a venture capitalist! I'm a social media investor. It's a multi-platform play with, obviously, huge mobile capability, global reach, soaring audience share. Revenue model? What? Huh? Beat it.

"Let's all sing our theme song: 'I Love Venture Capital'."

'In the future, that should produce thousands of PhD theses.'

'You see a bunny, I see an off-site system maintained by a 3rd party providing storage, processing power and computer applications.'

"C'mon. Just one more round of funding and I'll build you a horde that'll knock your socks off."

"Moreover, profits double if we move in with our parents."