Too Many Chiefs not enough Indians

 Honestly, this last project was a communication nightmare.  Overall, I think we did a pretty good job with the time we had.  The project did make me realize that having 7 people when you are starting up a business seems pretty impractical especially when there is not much time to do it:

A)     You’re not going to please everyone.

B)      Not everyone can be a head honcho ( I would use leader here, but leader just because you’re not running the show does not make you a leader)

C)      Not everyone is going to be able to contribute evenly

I believe this project may have gone a lot better in a smaller group.  I run a website with a 2 of my other friends and we have enough problems agreeing and getting together and we are roommates.  Having 7 people come together with different schedules was fairly difficult.  I believe the project served as a good learning experience, but the quality of the work is not so great.  I write this moments before our group is about to present, so who knows, maybe we can still come out on top.  This is Joe Massimo signing off.

My first college desicion may have been the wrong one

Don’t get me wrong, I pretty happy that I selected mechanical engineering as my major.  I got a nice job lined up. For the most part, I enjoyed what I did.  Honestly, I haven’t really retained any of the knowledge of learned, which is why my chosen job is in Technical Sales and not a straight up mechanical engineering job.  However, if I was forced to do it all again (wouldn’t take much forcing because I love college, greatest time of my life), I would probably would have chosen to be a Computer Science major.

Currently, even though I am in this class, I would not consider myself the entrepreneurship type, I believe creating an app and profiting off it would be pretty cool.  Only reason I say this is because it seems like once a week some new person is getting rich off Apps.  I once programed monopoly into C++ in high school, which makes me feel like I could have done it.  Sadly, it is too late. I am stuck being a Mechanical Engineer, which is not too bad.  I could be a liberal arts major.

Text to Order

Text your order. I, personally, think this would be an awesome idea; however, rumor has it that LionsMenu is coming out with a similar type thing.  Just in time, since I am graduating (that was sarcasms).  I would have been much more inclined to order over the past 5 years if it  was just a text away.  The way lionsmenu.com is right now, sucks in my opinion.  If you have to log in, find what you want on the menu even though you already know what you want.  I just want to be able to text Canyon Wings that I want a Medium Sack of Softies.  Is that too hard to ask? I believe most people when they order from a place know what they want.  Of course this wouldn’t replace Lionsmenu.com because every now and then you will need to look at the menu to decide what you really want.  I am actually pretty curious how they would use this texting system, but once again I won’t be here to see it.  Bastards.  

Sure Hire

In most interviews, people may ask one or two scenery questions.  But wouldn’t it be nice, to actually see how they would perform in the job role before you were to hire them.  That’s where are virtual simulation software comes in.  A company would hire us to set up simulation software where the people they are interviewing would sit down and an answer a series of questions.  Each question, would then affect the next question and so on down the line.  It will be set up much like a tree diagram, each question affecting the next.  The software will incorporate videos into it to give it more of a real life feel.  The person interviewing would have to justify why he chose each one of his answers so the employer can fully understand who they are hiring. 

Ethics

To me, ethics can be a tricky subject. Of course there are black and white cases, which make up the majority of the ones we talk up in school, like the Ford Pinto, but I am more referring to the non-cut and dry cases. Like the John Q type stuff, or even the kids in the other Engr 407 class who are getting charged for selling those horns. Were they being unethical? In my opinion, no. I just do not agree with the fact that most of the classes here at Penn State that teach ethics use the Ford Pinto type example, and act like ethics is such a simple discussion.

DELCO

Even though I never had much desire to be an entrepreneur, I now find myself just about to publish a website in a desire to make money.  The market, Delaware County, or DELCO as the locals call it. How will I make money?  The Zuckerburg approach, making it cool before profiting.  Why, because people who live there love it? Why? Because people there normally always boost about how they can drink a lot.  How many people live in Delco? 558,979. Out of that number, who is believed to be marketed too, roughly 10,000.  Obviously not a huge market, but it is big enough and my friends and I will enjoy making the site.  It will take a similar approach that Bro Bible takes in just being a blog directed at people from DELCO.  What inspired this idea? DELCO people.  The past 3 State Patty’s day, I have had no problem selling T-Shirts with DELCO on the back.  In just one day, I was up to 200 orders and since I don’t have the capital to front for much more than that I didn’t take any more.  Plus exclusiveness is cool.  Website has not been published yet, but in the next few days we should have it up and running.  Shot in the dark I know, but I will enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFX248-OH9k

Our group is doing are one project on reinventing the dryer, so it does not use electricity.  The idea is fairly simple; we use hit from the fire place and use a bike to spin the dryer.  However, I am guessing most people in the world are too lazy to buy this.  While looking into dryers, I found this link.  This dryer seems like a great way to save energy.  It is basically a dryer that automatically stops when your clothes are dry.  That is great news because I can’t tell you how many times I have used a dryer and came back and it feels like my clothes have been roasting for 20 minutes longer than they should have.  Using a dryer about an hour a day every day a year, which is close to how my family does, will cost the user $200 a year in electricity making this dryer worth wild. 

Pee on the Toilet Seat!!!

I f**king hate when there is pee on the toilet seat.  Like is it that hard to put the toilet seat up, or maybe it is too gross.  This happens all the time at public restrooms for us guys.  Just when I am about to go number 2, every stale in the place has pee on the seat.  How do I clean it off?  Is wiping it up with toilet paper enough to clean it? I don’t know.  But the reason I am blogging about this unsanitary topic is because this is the idea I submitted to quirky.  My idea was an item that attaches to the toilet seat that always kept it up to prevent males from peeing on the seat.  I know girls like the seat down, so this may be just a product for restrooms and all male households unless it could also be attached in way to always lower the seat for the females, conquer the best of both worlds.  I believe the product would be simple to make; all it is a spring or hydraulic system that always raises the toilet seat when someone is not sitting on it, meaning if a person is sitting on the toilet seat, the weight of the person would hold it down.  Simple idea that would save me the problem of cleaning up other people’s pee.