This wonderful billboard is downtown Portland as a reminder for people to reuse.

Things like old soda cans for instance could be used to make toys.

My old transmission from my 1986 240 DL Volvo Sedan

I purchaced the car April 19, 2006. Below are my notes about that.

CJ did me a favor selling me the car for $500 and allowing me to make payments on it. When buying big items and you are a hundredaire it’s nice to have people around you willing to give you some credit even if the banks won’t. You will notice this is the car I learned to drive a stick on.

So based on these facts it’s safe to assume that transmissions tend to go out around 250,000 miles or so.

Ryan and I replaced the old tranny with the new one on Saturday. I learned a lot about transmissions and car repair. Transmissons are heavy! When you have a limited space under a car they can and you are trying to get it in the perfect spot, they can seem even heavier. I really had to use all my mental and physical strength just to lift this sucker up. A transmisson jack might have been nice. Ryan really ended up being the one who got the thing into place. I’m still sore from the ordeal and I would imagine he is the same.

I’m still crunching some numbers but, the thing cost me about $800 all together.

It’s nice to have a car again.

I came up with this idea while I was alone at the bar, trying to decide whether I needed another beer or not. I was thinking that it would probably be a good idea if you could somehow gauge your own inebriation using a standardized method, because of course you never think you’re as drunk as you actually are. Anyway, here’s the idea: you have a deck of fifty-two cards, with a photo of a lady printed on the face of them. These ladies range from being moderately attractive to very ugly. You pull one of the cards, look at the woman on the card, and decide if you think that she is attractive or not – basically, you rate her on a scale of “One to Ten”. Then you flip over the card, and see what it says. The reverse side of the card has a number in a scale of its own printed on it, essentially in inverse proportion to your own “One to Ten” scale. Thus, the moderately good-looking lady would be a “one”, and the horribly-disfigured lady would be a “ten”. It operates on the basis of beer goggles: the drunker you are, the lower your threshold of standards of beauty becomes, so when you’re looking at a card and you’re like,”That is one fiiiiine lookin’ lady! I wish she was sittin’ on this here barstool right next to me!” and then you flip it over and it reads “Nine”, you’ll be all like “Woah, I’m nine out of ten drunk! I should get the hell on out of here!” There’ll be a series that depicts dudes as well, for those people that prefer dudes over ladies.

I foresee this product as also being very useful for bartenders: “Hey, buddy, what do you think of her?” [Bartender flips a card down.] “Sheee’sh a beaut!” [Bartender flips card over, revealing the high number.] “I’m sorry my friend, but you’re cut-off.”

I’ve got to admit that this product is somewhat controversial, since it relies on the assumption of a standardized concept of beauty. That’s a problem for the Marketing Department, not R & D.

This is an idea for men that Drew’s friend Jon came up with. Sometimes, you’re in a public restroom, and there’s no partition between the urinals. This can be a little disconcerting if you’re standing next to someone with a bit of a wandering eye. The Securi-pee aims to provide a little comfort and reduce “performance anxiety” while using these open stalls. Essentially, it’s a couple of telescoping antennas with little curtains on them that fasten onto your belt. The curtains can be made from different materials for style or economy: vinyl provides a shower curtain-like splash guard, while red velvet gives an air of elegance (although they are admittedly less sanitary). The curtains could also be printed on, perhaps with advertisements, or with slogans such as “What do you think you’re looking at?!” They’ll be available in “Small” and “Large”, or maybe “Large” and “Larger” after marketing gets done with it.

Thank you craigslist, you sure help us “big business” people reach out to find that right person so much easier.

I’m slightly embarrassed to say this is my second personal I’ve posted, the first one got zero response. I think by posting a picture I might actually get feedback from someone I wouldn’t mind going out with. I’m still nervous though. Maybe it will send some more traffic to MoHDI and I’ll meet my dream woman out of this. Or maybe all my friends will see this an poke fun at me… what do I got to lose… I’m a single dad with a mustache!

First off, MoHDI is short for Millions of Hundred-Dollar Ideas. I have had numerous million-dollar ideas and even some million-dollar hundred-dollar ideas (I’ll explain that one later). The problem I continued to see with my million-dollar ideas and my friends million dollar ideas are that it’s often a lot of hard work and lots of money to get the idea going also it might be months before your next million dollar idea comes to mind. Now Hundred-Dollar Ideas are something much different.
I define a hundred-dollar idea as one that requires less than $100 to start up, is easy to run and can possibly generate $100 in a year.
The concept is simple, come up with enough Hundred-Dollar Ideas and you have yourself a very nice stream of income.
This is a system that is foolproof in its plan and so easy anyone can do it; I’m even going to teach you how to get your own hundred-dollar idea in full production!

Let’s take a look at some numbers.

Here’s the break down (keep in mind this first year is my ramp up year)
2 Hundred-Dollar Ideas / Week for 1 Year = 104 ideas
104 Hundred-Dollar Ideas generating $100 each per year = $10,400 in the first year of operations
It gets better.
Imagine at that rate in 5 years of operation we’ll have 520 Hundred Dollar Ideas, each generating and estimated $100 each and pulling in $52,000 a year at that point.
That’s an ok salary…
Now let’s jump ahead a little more….
10 years from now 1040 ideas generating $104,000 – that’s getting better! I’ll be about to retire by that point.
Let’s jump ahead a little further!
96145.38 years from now, I should have approximately 1,000,000 ideas each generating for me about $100 each. And that’s when I’ll earn my first $100,000,000!

It’s a very good system that really pays off the longer you’re in it.