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The dream I had the night before [livejournal.com profile] jazzmasterson and [livejournal.com profile] harliquinn's wedding (and to avoid being guilty of false advertising, I didn't actually *see* any of the Thousand Forms):

I was racing along some sort of river or canal, trying to get to a mystical place before the Bad Guys did. (Same sort of feel as any given Indiana Jones movie.) In this case, there was only one Bad Guy, also on the river. We tried to capsize one another's boats and so on, and in the end he got to the end ahead of me. I got to a high staircase, maybe thirty seconds after the Bad Guy had been that way; I knew at the top of it there was a room of revelation... and that it was the territory of Nyarlathotep.

And at about that point, right above me, I heard a fading shriek, in my head as much as in my ears. When I reached the top of the stairs, there was nobody there, except for a faint echo of a recently-vanished presence.

And there was the Revelation. I saw a series of odd little symbols, each signifying a major scientific discovery - fire, writing, electricity, etc etc - and I knew this was how they'd been revealed to mankind... and then I saw the next one, and knew that this new discovery had been given to me. I don't recall now what it was, but in the dream I had a full grasp of it and was all set to go out and share it with the world, winning my Nobel Prize or whatever it might be.

That's where the dream ended. Thinking afterwards about Nyarlathotep's canonical role in scientific progress, it's probably just as well the Revelation didn't go through into the waking world...

But two waking-world Brilliant Ideas I thought I'd share:

- Black tissues, for goths. That way, when you forget to empty your pockets before doing the laundry, at least the million-and-one shreds of tissue match your outfit!

- The Coffee Dart Gun. Equipped with a motion sensor, it detects when you get up and fires a caffeine-laden dart, thus resolving the catch-22 that arises when uncaffeinated people attempt to find and work the instruments of coffee. This one needs some work - the users might have to wear safety goggles until we can optimise the targeting - but I think there's real potential here :-)

Date: 2005-10-02 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tenner.livejournal.com
Re The Coffee Dart Gun: Brilliant.

The caffeinated soap we were discussing at the Tolland Inn.

Date: 2005-10-02 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lederhosen.livejournal.com
Yeah, the CDG dart gun arose out of that discussion and watching people trying to figure out the coffee pots in zombie mode at the breakfast table :-)

Date: 2005-10-02 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lederhosen.livejournal.com
CDG dart gun

Mmm, tautology.

Date: 2005-10-02 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jazzmasterson.livejournal.com
More like Self-Referential-TLA.

figuring out the coffee

Date: 2005-10-07 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] verrat.livejournal.com
Our coffee pot? Or did you guys find a more confusing one elsewhere? :D

Re: figuring out the coffee

Date: 2005-10-07 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lederhosen.livejournal.com
This was the one at the guest house in Connecticut. The lid needed to be rotated 180 degrees before it would pour, which caused several people significant difficulties...

Date: 2005-10-03 11:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pallagia.livejournal.com
(Bleary-eyed as I wait for the coffee to brew.) Please, see the prototype to 126 Oakwood Ave in Troy. On second thought, wait until the aiming mechanism has been perfected. This could get bad otherwise...

Date: 2005-10-07 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] verrat.livejournal.com
Have I ever told you I love how you think? An auto caffine injector. Better yet, though, modify it so it can sense when caffine levels are low so it can give you quick boosts

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