Master Programmer Needed!

Imagine sitting in class or a coffee shop and seeing the girl (or guy) of your dreams. You don't know this person, and are basing this destiny of love purely on looks. For most people, getting the courage to get out of your seat and talk to this person, would be equivalent to running across burning coals, naked, in front of your family and all their closest friends. If this isn't an option for you, you might try to frantically catch the person's name so you can stalk them later on facebook or myspace, and then fumble around at your computer until you do, or don't find the person online. If you do find the person, you may spend hours debating whether to send them a message, or a wall post, or some other god forsaken way of communicating via the internet's social networking. GOOD LUCK is all I have to say!

My outlandish system today might actually already be in place in some areas, but I thought I would put a much less reasonable twist on it.


Start off with the same scenario, a classroom or a coffeeshop and you see the opposite partner of your dreams. The first step from here would be to grab your cell phone and turn on the bluetooth application. If you don't have bluetooth you are out of luck, and you better hope that dreamgirl has bluetooth. Ok, so the bluetooth is on, next there would be an application that would send out beams of profile information to all bluetooth enabled phones in the area. This could also be accessed through wireless internet systems. If you are lucky you might catch that perfect someone across the room eying there phone and then stealing a quick glance at you. From the initial profile beam users would be allowed to accept or decline the full profile information and then chose to respond or ignore the invitation for chat. There are many aspects of this system that could be used other places such as career fairs, or business meetings where certain types of people are trying to meet.

I have a fairly broad concept in my head of what this system would look like, but as the title implies, NO idea of how to put it together in any sort of working function. With my limited knowledge of HTML and not even a remote clue about C++ there is no chance of me even thinking about designing this system in the near future. If you have the knowledge to design this system, or know of anywhere where this is available let me know.

Why Outlandish?

The inspiration for this blog came on a long, drunken walk home on a regular Friday night. When I walk home drunk I always get outlandish thoughts in my head. I'm not talking about Outlandish the multi-award winning hip-hop group based in Denmark, I don't think about them often, actually ever until I did a google search to figure out what Outlandish really meant. Anyway, the thoughts i have walking home drunk are peculiar, odd, and strange.

On a recent walk home, I was thinking in a systematic way feeling cold and tired, when I got the idea for an elaborate delivery service taxi ride. As the 20 minute walk seemed to drag out longer and longer with each shivering step I was passed by 3 taxis, 2 night ride vans, and 6 pizza/sandwich deliverymen.



Although empty night ride cars, and available taxi cabs that do not stop are a real issue, I pushed this out of my mind and thought of an elaborate system in which deliverymen provide a sober ride for people that need a ride home to an area that the deliveryman is delivering. In this system, delivery men would be in a database and their current location and future location would have to be tracked. Patrons who are coming home from bars or other locations would call this deliveryman taxi service and provide information about where they live and where they are. This is where the system becomes outlandish. The system would then access a database of deliverymen who are in a 10 mile radius of the patrons current location, then of the compiled deliverymen near the location, the one that was making a delivery closets to the patrons home would pick the customer up and take them home.