Quite a difference in just one day

Yesterday, I was so prolific.  Today, I am having some trouble with ideas for posts.

What's the trouble?  Well, for one thing, I don't know how this gets taken sometimes.  It seems that I've gone off the deep end with the speculations and such, and maybe I should knock it all off.  But if I did that, I would only write about the stuff I've actually done.  To me, that is all rather boring stuff.  So, I won't write about my boring job.

Besides, there's reason for me to believe that even if I look foolish writing some of these speculations, that it may have merit anyway.

I'll give an example.  In a psychology book many years ago, I remember reading a story about a program that some of the mind men were given that would help in the targeting for bombers during WWII.  The mind men came up with an idea that was rejected by the military, but probably not because it wouldn't work, but because of the way it would look.  The idea was to train a bird to peck at a target which gave midcourse corrections for a bomb so that it could stay on a target all of the way in.

Now that sounds ridiculous, I'm sure.  But the darned idea could have worked.  Especially on a hard target to hit, like an aircraft carrier.  The ship could easily avoid a bomb from a high altitude bomber.  An innovation like that could have been a game-changer, but it was rejected for reasons that had nothing to do with its efficacy.

So, I won't worry anymore about the way something looks or what its source may look like to some.  Even the so-called best and brightest aren't the ones who come up with great ideas.  Maybe I won't come up with anything here, but if I don't try, I am guaranteed not to succeed.

Damn the torpedos, full steam ahead.