My arm is really sore from drawing, so I figured that today would be perfect to take a break from sketching and to tell everyone about an idea that I’m very excited about– Weather Chatter: the Online Weather Discussion Board.
I know what you’re thinking– it’s a terrible pointless idea.
But wait! Imagine this: You find yourself in an elevator with a stranger. You both mutter “hi”s but then, unable to think of anything else, both sets of eyes zip to far apart spots of the lift in one beautiful synchronized movement. You find interest in the current-floor sign ( I wonder what number is going to come up next?! ) while the stranger’s eyes rove the elevator looking for things to read ( hmmm… lift carrying-capacity is 3000 lbs. I wonder how much that guy weighs? ). Suddenly you realize that you have 20 floors to go! You’re going to have a long while together. You have to do something before things get awkward! You decide to talk– what to talk about? what to talk about? ah! You decide to talk about the weather! Soon you and your moving-towards-friend-zone stranger are having an animated discussion:
“Did you hear that it’s raining outside?”
“Yeah, it sucks.”
“I think it sucks too!”
It turns out that you and Mr. Stranger aren’t so different after all!
Another example: A recent study done by famous aught Onym Ousan, showed that 94% of conversations between strangers centered around weather. ( Ousan examined these results and is now touring the USA with a message: For the most gripping weather conversations, both sides must have bitterly strong opinions on every aspect of modern meteorology– a middling opinion on something as important as snow can be a social disaster. )
Two sure things can be taken away from the above examples:
- Strangers often talk about the weather.
- ( Why talk about the weather? There are so many other things to talk about. ) Strangers must love talking about the weather.
So why an online weather discussion board? Every country on every continent has vast storages of strangers. Strangers love to talk about weather. Why not let strangers connect over the Internet to discuss local weather? ( please accept this as rhetorical ).
The above statement looks a lot like first-order or second-order logic. Logic.
Through use of Weather Chatter soon you will be able to commiserate with people half-way across the world about how much ( Onym Ousan recommends: a lot ) you hate sleet. And the world, someday, will run out of strangers.
On a side note– I just noticed that TED has a program for “world changing innovators.” How interesting.
An excellant idea! Onym Ousan would appreciate my opinion of tomorrow’s weather here in Wisconsin. Rain, freezing rain, sleet, and snow are not welcome in April! This after having endured an already long winter!!!!