Willy Wallace

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During my educational psychology class today, we were talking about rates of teenage sexual activity. To give us a more realistic view of the statistics and what is really going on, our instructor showed us a documentary-like video of a girl in high school who is choosing to abstain from sexual activity until she is married.

The video describes that she has a boyfriend who respects her opinions.

The funny part about this whole thing?

Her boyfriend’s name is Willy Wallace.

Willy Wallace.

Willy Wallace.

Willy Wallace.

 

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Topic #90: Pick something that annoys you and redesign how it works. Are you sick of the long lines at the DMV? Bothered by waiting in the doctors office without being told how long you have to wait? Pick something that annoyed you yesterday, and describe how you would redesign or change it to make your annoyances go away. Could be a device, a machine, a process, a place, anything.

One thing that annoyed me recently was the fact that my paycheck arrives only once every two weeks. Normally I don’t have a problem with it because I use a credit card for almost all of my purchases and I only have to pay my credit card bill once a month, and regardless, I generally don’t have problems with running out of money.

However, as you saw in yesterday’s blog post, I had to pay my tuition for my summer courses. My parents offered to pay it for me, but according to my rough calculations, I would have enough money of my own to pay it, so I told them that I would take care of it myself.

Unfortunately, my calculations were a couple hundred dollars off, and if I were to go along with my plan, I would have to wait for the money from my paycheck to be added in to my bank account. It would’ve been more convenient if I could have paid it all at once directly from my bank account, but instead, I decided to split it up into multiple payments and use my credit card so I didn’t have to wait for my money to arrive.

To solve this problem, I would build a machine that automatically measures how much work you’ve done and pays you in real time. For example, if you get paid $36 an hour, a cent would be automatically be deposited into your bank account for every second that you’re at work.

Of course, something like this is unrealistic, but it would make life a lot more convenient for situations like the one I had yesterday.

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 24

Number of times I did my own laundry: 3

 

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