esperanto international sign language

Esperanto should totally be a sign language. If there were an international sign language, the hearing who knew this language could communicate effectively with their hands and simultaneously learn a spoken language and teach their own spoken language. Which would be decidedly awesome.

I got this idea a few years ago and have had occasion to communicate with a few deaf folks about it. There is a relatively rudimentary international sign language in use amongst the deaf community when it becomes relevant to communicate with an international audience, say, at the deaf olympics. Since it's generally a special occasion gathering, the language is slow-growing.

bungee tin can walky-talky

I was biking with a friend the other day and we were yelling back and forth, and I thought it would be nice if we had a tin can telephone to talk on, but then I realized it would be very difficult to keep the string taut. Then I thought: what if the string were elastic, so that it could stretch and contract whilst we were biking? Hm. I don't know.

I get a lot of ideas.

I have a very busy existence running a little restaurant and having a little garden and getting lots of ideas that I don't have time to enact. I got this great idea to start a blog of all the ideas I get, and then at least I won't keep forgetting them; and if I ever suddenly become three or more people, I can try a few of them out. In the meantime, if anyone else wants to try any of my ideas, they are now and always free free free and quite possibly terrible.

I begin.