Patrick Jarrett

The Ultimate Morning Show

I had this vision while sitting on the couch with K a while ago. We were watching Joel McHale on E! doing his thing on ‘The Soup.’ And I began thinking about just how much TV there is and how I wish I would get these highlights daily in some sort of morning show.

And then I began thinking about Sports Center and how I’d love to mix that into the show as I love seeing the highlights from games the night before.

It would be mish-mash of pop-culture and sports. I’d hear about the latest faux pas made by some news caster right after I got the update on how the Atlanta Braves played the night before.

Then we throw in the news update, so we can catch up on the President’s latest travels and actions, the economic news, or the latest scientific discovery.

And as a final touch I want it all wrapped up in an hours worth of TV. That would be the ultimate morning show. SpikeTV, Are you listening? Make it happen. If you don’t, I’ll just have to make millions of dollars and make it happen myself.

Idea: Building a sickmap

I just twittered this idea but I want to push it further:

Monitor twitter for tweets about being sick. Cross that info with the user’s geo info. Collect all this information. Then build a sick map of the world about where people are feeling sick. Show hot spots, trends, etc. I’ll add it to the list.

Maybe I’ll have insomnia one night and hammer it out.

New Life Goal

Make banks obsolete. There is no reason it takes 6 days to cash an out of state check.

My newest Podcast

Yesterday was awesome. The “big idea” has finally come to life. Yesterday we recorded the first episode of my new video podcast, “ManaNation.” I was so excited all day, I was just a giddy school boy. It’s been in the works for over 3 months now and to finally have it rolling and happening is a great feeling.

The show is going to be a weekly video podcast all about Magic: the Gathering. The market is ripe for a weekly video podcast, there’s one out there but it’s closer to a narrated slideshow usually, though interestingly enough the guy who makes it is popular enough that it got him an invitation to the Magic Invitational which is a big honor.

It’s a great feeling for a big project like this to actually take off. A great feeling.

You can check the site out at: My Magic Podcast but the first episode won’t be up until Sept. 24

Two big ideas

I’ve had a lot of ideas this past weekend, most of them silly and pointless, but two of them stand out as standup ideas that could have a big effect.

Orlando was one of the first cities to adapt the RFID tags for use in tolls on our toll roads. We called it “E-Pass” and it’s been quite successful. Recently the units we have in the car for E-Pass have begun to beep in the vehicle to alert us that the account has been charged successfully. But what if the units didn’t charge your bank account, instead it plays a short commercial whenever you drive through a toll. Thus the advertiser is paying for your tolls. Now I realize that few advertisers would pay $0.75 per play, but I still think the idea has merit.

Update: My friends and I kept tossing this idea back and forth and the idea has it’s definite set of problems. The price for ads would be steep. There’s no way to guarantee the driver is listening. The radio could be on or they could muffle the speaker. But it isn’t an unsolvable series of problems.

The other idea is the one I think makes the most sense. Paypal has a stranglehold with online payment. A few companies have come up and tried to break the grip, Obopay is the most recent one I know of. Google Checkout is also gaining a following. But the most logical answer would be for Bank of America, or some other big bank in America, to start a competing company. They could waive the fees for any transaction which uses one of their bank accounts and charge fees for those who don’t use their bank. It’s so simple it seems like pure brilliance.

I wish

I wish Amazon would store my sizes and then allow me to tell it to automatically filter clothing items which wouldn’t fit me based on the available sizes.