My Great Uncle worked for Pringles company. He wanted to be a bread maker. I remember him sending us a whole case of the potato chips that first year they went to the market.
He told us about the idea, and that it took them 10 years to finish the concept for the potato chips.
He shared his amazement of how the processhttps://www.USPTO.gov worked and over the years,
I admired that creative drive and more than anything, I wanted to make something no one else had ever made.
When I started thinking of ideas I knew only about what was called "A Poor Man's Patent ", where you mail an idea to yourself and never open it. It is proof of concept.
If anyone is curious about patents or trademark ideas and rules, you can go to https://www.uspto.gov
Some people "Think Out Loud ". Over the years I've realized how many ideas I've let get away.
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As I sat one day thinking about the music industry, and some of the things that happened to so many musical groups, at the onset of digital technology, I thought of trying to remix the older songs with aid of the radio and how it would be possible to help the musicians re record their music.
As I stood up, recovering from a terrible injury, and working on a music history of the last 50 years, I began singing along with the radio, trying to find the harmonies that we had trained for in high school music classes. Each re-recorded or remixed song got a spot on my wall- I was actually trying to loose my injury by singing. So 2 years into my effort, I had to go. I had listened to someone say I couldn't sing. I know now I can.
Singing harmonies is so much fun!
"So sing or dance or be funny like no one is watching! "