Big Ideas # 16

This big idea is about refrigerators. Yes, refrigerators. My wife and I have had both side by side refrigerators and refrigerators with the freezer on the top. My mom has a refrigerator with the freezer on the bottom. All of these have their advantages and disadvantages. The freezer on the side by side is too narrow and a lot of space is wasted. The freezer on the bottom is probably the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I don't like the idea of having bend over or lay down in order to get something out and it has a lot wasted space as well. Freezer on the top is great but then you have to bend down to get something out of the lower drawers of the refrigerator. My solution is to have a fridge that sits on the counter and is like chopping it in half and setting it on the counter. There wouldn't be cabinets above the counter so that the freezer section would be at the same level as the freezer in a top freezer model and the the lowest point in the fridge would be the same level as the counter top. That would give you the flexibility to have it at whatever level you chose to build the counter top at.

Big Ideas # 15

I'm surprised it took this long. Here's a prediction - CD's aren't too far behind. With so much of the distribution of music going to digital, I would suspect that in 5 years, CD's will be obsolete. I wonder why the record companies haven't gone to selling USB drives with music on them. 1GB flash drives are only about $15.00 now and that's more than enough to hold a whole CD encrypted at CD quality. You would have about 400mb or so to put promo material on. I'll bet that you could get them for half that (or less) in bulk. Oh, crap. Some record company exec will read this and steal my idea. Well for whatever it's worth that's my big idea today.