Ideas for the future

Implant teleporters into your anus to avoid bathroom breaks.

How good could US soccer be?

What if the best atheletes in the US chose to play soccer?  Here is my all-time starting lineup.  I am considering all of these atheletes in their prime, and it has a Seattle slant.

Goalie: Michael Jordan
Defenders: Gary Payton, Ronnie Lott, Brandon Roy
Midfield: Barry Sanders, Prime Time, Napoleon Kaufman, Nate Robinson
Forward: Kobe Bryant, Reggie Bush, Larry Fitzgerald

Relationship marketing

I just had a coworker let me in on a secret.  She says it's relationship marketing.  She says compensation is great, morale is high, it's the future.  This is right after she told me she was upside down on her condo.

How come everybody that is into the latest and greatest for a pyramid scheme is a financial disaster?

Playing with an orchestra

I plan on masterring the didgeridoo.  After that, I'll start a band and create great music.  When I turn 50, I'll be tempted to play with an orchestra backing me up.  Please email me a link to this post so that I can remember that this is a really bad idea.

Boxes

Have you even seen a box that is used to hold folded up boxes? 
Its sole purpose is to contain boxes. 
It's a box box.

That's cool.

But have you ever seen seen a box for holding box boxes? 

I want in the box business.

Why no "Album Artist" iPod?

When you burn a CD that has many contributing artists, it tends to automatically tag it like this...

Song: Song Name
Artist: Artist Name and Contributing Artist
Album Artist: Main Artist Name

To me, this is the way these tags are intended to be used. Unfortunately, iPods and Sonos do not seem to acknowledge the Album Artist Tag. When I'm browsing my 40k songs by Artist I see stuff like this...

Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre with Snoop Dog
Dr. Dre with so and so 1
Dr. Dre with so and so 2

I don't want to browse by "Artist". I want "Album Artist".

"Artist" is way to cluttered. I don't wan't my Dr Dre albums to show up as compilations, I wan't them under Dr Dre, and I don't want to loose contributing artist info, or bury it in a comment tag or in parenthesis of a song name. These are unnecessary work arounds.

I guess I just don't undertand what is so technically challenging about allowing users to browse collections by Album artist. It's just another tag.

I won't buy an iPod until this is a feature.

The Plan for Microsoft Entertainment

Here is what needs to happen with Zune, Windows Media Center, Windows Live, Windows Home Server, Media Center Extenders, and XBOX.

Everything is controllable by the Zune:
Zune interfaces let you control your media center. This means schedule recordings, navigate content, select things to play or watch, etc. Similarly, it acts as a remote control for your extenders giving you all of the media center functionality at any TV with an extender.

Media Center should easily store things on Windows Home Servers:
Record TV, burn music, play Everything is streamable to the zune by wifi and cellular

Media Center needs to be easily cablecard compatible:
I want the full suite of comcast channels available in HD through my Media Center.

One tool should be used to manage all media, and everything should recognize when changes are made:
Song tagging, movie tagging, file names, what folders are automatically watched, etc. should all be managed centrally, with each device tapping this central location for indexing. I suppose you could have multiple tools for managing this as long as the data is shared, but why not invest time in one interface.

Advanced Tagging Included:
They need a better taggin too. I suggest looking at Tag and Rename for music and Open Media Library for Movies. ZUne needs to continue supporting the Album Artist tag. This is currently my biggest reason for owning a Zune.

Everything should stream to the Zune (Zune as an extender):
Essentially, the Zune should be able to function as a standalone extender, allowing you to access everything by wifi or cell, and also hook directly to a TV or Amplifier to serve up the movies, pics and tunes.

Zune should have card slot:
Cards are getting to be big. No need for huge storage, just make it expandable through card slots.

Add Video support to Windows Live Photo Galleries:
I love the one step publishing of photos to Windows Live, but I can't stand MSN Soapbox. Until they overhaul this, I'll just use the one click youtube.

Media Center and Extenders should play Multiple VOBs:
I want to backup my movies to Windows Home Server, preserve chapters and have it completely lossless. I don't want to convert it to DivX or anything else. I want one rip, and one format. Same goes for music. I want virtual limitless Codecs to choose from.

Zune Portable Gaming:
This doesn't interest me, and I hope there is an option for a gamerless Zune too, but why not make the Zune also like a Nintendo DS and dual as a portable gaming system. What about some sort of Xbox comaptability, I haven't thought this through. I think you can tell I don't do games right now, so my vision is not clear on this.

That's all for now.