{"id":573898865,"date":"2026-03-27T20:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898865"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:24:46","slug":"not-every-idea-is-marketable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/not-every-idea-is-marketable\/","title":{"rendered":"Not every idea is marketable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t step outside, or even poke my head up from the computer, until the sun was going down. Meetings and emails and work and such. Here&#8217;s the view from the front porch. We face the west, but we turn wherever the best views are to be found. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar26\/mar187.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A home on a lazy Susan. There&#8217;s an idea. I imagine one person standing out at the corner, squatting low, putting their back into it, slowly spinning the house. It&#8217;d be like a pushing a dead car, difficult at first, but you&#8217;d build a little momentum. The trick would be stopping at the right time. You wouldn&#8217;t want to overshoot the sunset or whatever you were aiming at. <\/p>\n<p>The next trick would be managing the electrical connections. There are a lot of wires and pipes and things. <\/p>\n<p>OK, so we build in some flexibility. Use that silly straw technology. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d need giant ball bearings. I suppose we&#8217;d need a giant ball bearing plant. The plant, itself, would need to be rather large. We&#8217;ve also got to figure out a way to transport those. That&#8217;s certainly doable, but would be costly. And replacing those, when the time comes, would be a chore. <\/p>\n<p>Then you&#8217;ve got to keep leaves out of way of the things. This is starting to become a rather involved idea. <\/p>\n<p>But only a few steps after we&#8217;ve invented a giant ball bearing plant. <\/p>\n<p>This million dollar idea might need a little more work. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>This was one of the windier places you&#8217;ll be that doesn&#8217;t involve a storm. I left in the nat sound to prove it. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaa2nam\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is the view from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/up-the-west-coast-a-bit\/\">Sky Road<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t step outside, or even poke my head up from the computer, until the sun was going down. Meetings and emails and work and such. Here&#8217;s the view from the front porch. We face the west, but we turn wherever the best views are to be found. A home on a lazy Susan. 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