A Name for the Ages

The great and all powerful YOUTUBE ALGORITHM made it's suggestions recently and I got into watching some Joe Scott videos. He's a science educator that just kinda talks about whatever tickles his fancy. He's alright, not the best but far above the worst. The other day I caught two videos he made where he was ranking terrible patents. Some of these were pretty bad such as the toilet target to teach boys to pee, the pat on the back machine and the self butt kicker.

But, as typically happens to me, I got an idea from YouTube. I could make a terrible invention like that. Just like Simone Giertz! But it's more than just that for me. People are always looking at how they make their name last for the ages. So many people have been lost to time and I think it's safe to say I'm not going to stand out in history. But, throw your name into a patent and, in a couple hundred years, someone could find your patent and look at it.

And, as a drafter, I am trained to make drawings and create new solutions to problems. The hard part it coming up with an idea that I could patent. There are only a few million patents out there so it shouldn't be hard (sarcasm). And I'm sure it doesn't cost anything to put in a patent.

Let's see here....hmm. A machine that kicks your own butt? No, that's been done. A bottle opener that's a belt buck--nope. A hydraulic powered space suit for battling Martians! Nah, I like the Martians too much.

Of course, all of this is because I've been looking more into the research side of my job. I love to learn new stuff about strange things. I keep hearing about stuff going on at the university, whether it be with the synchotron or in the vaccine area, and I think that although I may not be a researcher, someone has to draw their equipment! Of course, I do currently work for a research company but I'm not in one of the positions where I get to do much design or research. It's very much "here's what we want you to do" but it's a foot in the door!

And figuring out how to do a patent application would be great. Even if I am already giving up on it as I type this since there is a video game at home with my name on it.

EDIT: After writing this, but before Friday, I went home, cooked supper and as I was stirring my large pot o' tomato sauce looking for the last bay leaf I figured it out. Some sort of device that removes bay leaves! My initial thought is a potato gun that sprays everything up for the leaf to be seen by a sensor and shot out with a laser. More potato guns then blow the flying sauce back into the pot.

Flawless.