Good Ideas of mine

1. A glass ketchup bottle with a valve in the back.
Seriously! How many times have you tried to slather ketchup all over your delicious Freedom Fries and wonderful burger, tapped thrice on the label and everything, and nothing comes out? You know how gas cans have valves in the back to allow air in? Well if resteraunts insist on inconvenient yet spiffy glass bottles for condiments, I propose valves in the bottim. More ideas later.

Progressive Finances

In Econ class, it sounds like there are two main financial companies in the area: Edward Jones and Charles Schwab. My initial bias was towards the former, but my teacher uses the latter, so now I'm confused - except for about an hour ago, when I was watching 30 Rock and a Charles Schwab commercial came on - the music was in 7/4!! Granted, it was the completely lame syncopation thing that every simpleton prog band does - a 7/8 rhythm twice, so the syncopation makes it resolve better. Cheap and common! Seriously, I've heard Dream Theater, Yes, Steve Vai, Jeff Beck, the Flower Kings, Umphrey's McGee, Between the Buried & Me, Scale the Summit, and I think Fantomas do it - and that's only off the top of my head, I've heard abut twice that. Seriously people!!
Anyway, I will talk to Chuck then.

Fates Warning

Fates Warning has consistently listed along with Dream Theater, Symphony X and Queensrÿche as pioneers of progressive metal, but today was the first time I've ever actually listened to them. It turns out that the quality of bands decrease as you move further along: Dream Theater is the apex of all that is good; Symphony X has sweet power metal symphonic neoclassical prog, Queensryche is more like Iron Maiden diluted by Led Zeppelin (cool and powerful for sure, but scarcely prog), and Fates Warning is like an annoying rock band with an occasional time signature change. Disappointment. See for yourself.