How to give more financial aid to students

Raise the money by renting out college buildings and class spaces that are currently used just to give lectures. With video conference technology students can attend lectures from their room. I would prefer that if rented out class space meant I can receive more financial aid to pull it through in this bad economy.

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At-home mail pick up

Simple idea but not universally implemented makes you wonder why. Every letter box should have 2 slots designated as in and out. The postman delivers mail into the in-slot and takes mail from the out-slot. If you expect mail, you don't have to go to the post-office or the nearest drop box to post your mail. The postman will head back to the post-office anyway so why not take your mail. It saves time and costs nothing. Why doesn't it become universal practice?

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My office Is the airplane

No I'm not a pilot. I'm a writer and I always get my best thoughts and ideas when I'm flying. Something about being on air brings torrents of creativity in me. My imagination runs sweet and sour faster when I find myself traveling above cloud level. I really do work better when I'm flying. At the moment, I can't afford to travel as often as I would like but when my next best-seller surpasses the Da Vince code this is what I have in mind to do.

I'll start a new airline and I will call it Sky Author Airways. The fountain pen will be its logo. It will accept as its passengers authors journalists and writers who have published at least one book and want to use a flight as an office space. The decoration will be relaxed, something like a miniature of Google on air. There will be laptops with internet connection to use inside the plane. There will also be a printer and binder to print anything in book format that is downloaded online. This could work in partnership with a major publisher and retailer like Amazon.

There will also be a small library in the luggage compartment below which will be updated based on the passengers' preferences on each flight. Passengers will not be paying on a per travel basis but on a monthly basis. In other words the charge will be the same as renting office space. The only requirement will be that if the flight is booked on the day you want to fly you will have to take another route.

Of course passengers can use Sky Author Airways to combine it with their travel plans but the main goal of traveling with Sky Author is to use it as office space. Instead of working say 8 hours in an office you can take an 4 hour flight somewhere and come back by the end of the work day. Whoever is in the writing or creative business and in need of office space on air will be welcome to use Sky Author Airways!

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extend museum hours after 5pm

most museums and galleries in australia close at 5pm during the week. this doesn't make sense because most people finish work just then. it is only after 5pm that they have time to visit during the week. by hiring more staff or temps or switching shifts museums should also stay open after 5pm. otherwise they become mostly used by students or people who can afford not to work and the general public has access to them on weekends when they are at their most crowded. that's not fair!

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head-spanking chairs for shorter meetings

if time is money, then it's time to put an end to people who talk talk talk and talk talk taaaaalk...i don't care if there are people who love their voice too much or if they think they have important things to say. talking time gets fixed, stays same for everyone and is kept short. only the chairperson of the meeting can extend time. if time's up and someone is still taaaaalking he gets spanked by the head-spanking chair, flaaaap!! ok, what's next, what about no one is allowed to cover their neck with cushion. bare necks will make for great spanking sounds. those who become rednecks are out of the meeting :)

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Post-it note economics

I am not sure if this falls under psychology, ecology or economics. My friend works for a company which is currently facing severe economic difficulties and management is frantic about reducing costs. Half-jokingly someone suggested that they use both sides of a post-it note. When I heard it, I was surprised but after giving it some thought I realized it's not such a bad idea. If we use less paper, that's good for the environment, isn't it? The only time I used both sides of a post-it note was when, having run out of sets, I had to make do with the last note in the pack. It never occurred to me to think of the environmental impact so I'm now reconsidering my one-side only use.

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Ban metaphors??

I got into an argument by the elevator at my work with a girl from NY. She was rude and said to me 'Honey, you can kiss my ass if you like but what you're asking will never happen' She had a nice ass, so I went behind her, bent down and started kissing her ass on top of her skirt. She shocked and started screaming at me 'What are you doing, get off me, I'll sue you' then I said to her in my Belgian accent, you asked me to kiss your ass so I did. If you don't mean it don't ask for it. You're in Europe and you have nice ass, what do you expect? She can't sue me because she asked for it. See the metaphor trap?

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Stationary products for nervous people

How about a paperclip that you can give it all sorts of shapes while on the phone but reverts back to its original shape and use after you finish playing with it? The concept is to create stationary products for people who are stressed and nervous and allow them to release their emotions without destroying them. What material could they be made off I wonder. Nano carbons?

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Office sex ethics...

To have a sexual affair with your boss at work is unprofessional conduct. It creates favoritism and bias. How about we make it a rule that if the boss has sex with one employee, out of fairness to everyone, he or she must have sex with all employees? All employees will have to consent to this practice in writing before joining the firm. The more sexually incompatible people are in the office, and they will be the larger and more diverse the environment is, the hardest it will be for the boss to engage in a 1-1 affair that discriminates everyone else.. :)

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New York Ice-Age-Office-Training!

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 7 March 2008 by member jim

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Referring to having the air-condition on during the hot summer months at a very low temperature. This is typical if you work in New York. When I did my training there, the air-con kept the office so cold that I was freezing to the point I had to have a blanket wrapped around me all the time. I was told a cold office keeps employees awake. Is that true? If true, this is crazy, sick and inhumane.

There is a difference between keeping cool and freezing to death. That difference should be no no more than 10 degrees Celsius but the New Yorkers seem to surpass any reasonable expectation of coolness! Or maybe this is how New Yorkers train for the coming Ice Age :)

Other than that New York is a great city!

Office chair turned bed for busy people

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 21 February 2008 by member akityan

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I made this thought for people like me who work at the office until very late. A very anatomic chair that unfolds and turns into a bed so that you can sleep a few hours when working late in the office. A lot of people that work in finance or in other industries pull all nighters at the office but there is no bed to rest for even an hour!

Some of my colleagues asked me how I came up with it. They thought I got the idea from traveling on business class where the seats turn into beds. Actually that wasn't the case.

I commute to work by train every day. The other day an old man came in, he seemed to have difficulty walking so I stood up to give him my seat but he refused. He then started to de-assemble his walking stick and turned it into a small tripod on top of which there was a round plastic that served as the seat of a chair! He sat till his stop came and then folded it back and went out.

I thought that was awesome. If they can turn walking sticks into chairs for old people, why not make office chairs for the army of young professionals who rarely go back home to sleep due to overwork?