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What do the following have in common?

1) Vancouver
2) Stanley Park
3) Gino Vanelli's classic 70s ballad, "Living Inside Myself"

If you answered either, "The inspiration for Justice's next life-changing idea" or "If these were women I would be making hot monkey love to them every 45 minutes for the rest of my life", you would be correct.  Forget about the fact that these would be women named Stanley and Gino - it doesn't matter. You know you'd still hit it.

I need to explain to you that there are few things more majestic than Vancouver's Stanley Park.  Likewise, there is no song that provokes the feeling of "I'm standing directly in front of a nuclear explosion while multi-colored rain pours down around me" like Gino's tale of triumph and tragedy.  But - and now I can say this from personal experience - there is nothing like riding into Stanley Park at 10 km/h while the chorus of "Living Inside Myself" plays in the background.  I've attached this clip of the chorus.  Here are some directions:

1) Play the chorus
2) Imagine driving into the vast wooded forests of Stanley Park
3) Resist the urge to touch yourself

Now that you understand the kind of raw *emotion* that this inspires, you are ready to hear about my new idea.   This is not to be confused with the idea I had last week!!   This one is entirely different and might even have a greater impact.

Mrs L and I were sitting on a bench in Stanley Park, telling Donald Belcham jokes and laughing hysterically.  All of a sudden, rain begins to fall! 

As we are walking back, "the idea" hits me.  You see, everybody loves remote car starters right?    At last, we can start the car without fear of losing our lives via exposure to the -35 degree Celsius temperatures of Edmonton!  I'm sure we can all agree that the remote car starter is one of the most stunning technology advances of the last 75 years.

Now, imagine you live in Vancouver.  You don't need a remote car starter - in fact, you pretty much don't need anything as you live in *paradise*.  But what about those times when you're drinking pina coladas and getting caught in the rain?  What if you have to suffer a long walk back through a torrential downpour?

Wouldn't it be *superb* if you had a remote car starter that not only started the car, but then got the car to *drive itself to your current location* and pick you up?

But that's not the big idea.  *This* is the big idea.

If the above idea sounded impressive, how much more *AWESOME* would it be to have a car that drives itself to your current location, and upon reaching you, throws all of its doors open and begins blasting the chorus to "Living Inside Myself" at 80 dB?  It's like KITT, but with Gino Vanelli's awesome fusion of jazz and pop!!  Seriously, if a car ever came up and did that to me, I would *WET MY PANTS* several times over

I'm looking for venture capitalists to finance this idea immediately!!  I already know at least one person aside from myself who would buy this sort of a car, although we might need to replace Gino's hit with "All Out of Love" by Air Supply...

Monday, November 13, 2006 #