Idea

I'm giving away another great idea, an idea that I got today for no specific reason...

It's a tweak to google-calendar (etc) that I call 'Don't forget to call your mother on Mothers day you nitwit'. In addition to reminding you of doing it, it actually checks your call-list, and if you, by the end of the day have not called her, your phone actually dials the number for you.

Somebody make it happen. Please.

A tooth paste tube theory

I have a theory about tooth paste. Do you want to hear it? If so, read on.

You can never run out of tooth paste. There is always some left in the tube, enough to satisfactory brush your teeth (in a pinch). Sure, the work needed to extract the toothpaste increases as the volume of remaining paste decreases, and at some point it simply gets easier to walk to the store and buy a new tube of your personal favourite than to, say, rent a bulldozer to squeeze some out on your tooth brush. I also think the neighbours would be rather annoyed if I started a dozer in my apartment at 6:40 in the morning...

Globe

Why have I never been forced to paint a Globe?
To actually mark out where on earth everything is on an actual globe, to draw the latitudes and longitudes, continents and countries, oceans and rivers, would have taught me so incredibly much about geography. It would be a knowledge that would burn itself deep in the brain of anyone doing it.
Why is that not an obligatory assignment in school? Is there no time somewhere between the first and ninth year in the swedish educational system where such a task could fit in? Flat maps only distorts the understanding of the world, they teach me nothing. I say 'To hell with flat maps!'. I firmly believe that the world would be a better place if everyone was forced to carry around their own painstakingly crafted globes where ever they went. 

Lists

Sometimes I get the urge to catalog all of a specific item that we own. I have never done it (possibly because I really do not want to become any more like Sheldon than I already am). But would it not be nice to have a complete inventory of e.g.

• All children toys. (Including number of all the different lego-pieces that we have. Make and model and story behind all the small: cars / stuffed toys / plastic thingies... )
• Books.
• Camera gear.
• Coat hangers (would it not be great to see where all the hangers come from? (don't think that I am kidding, I have actually thought about doing this list several times this last week (just in our hallway we have hangers labeled 'Vara', 'E för kvalitet' and 'Sidenvaruhuset', how did they come into our home?))).

The list of stuff I want to make lists of can probably become larger, but I stop myself here. 

(After reading what I just wrote, I realize that I was lying. I have started on both the book and camera gear lists, probably several times. Sorry for lying to you.)