Another empty can on the trash heap of idea history

Registered, trademarked, copyrighted, pinky swear -- me as of right now. I wrote Jonathan: Here's the idea, Jonathan: take a waste material and turn it into something pleasing. The waste material: emails I don't open and read, but have to delete. The pleasing thing: automatically generated sound, that sounds lovely, like a vague soundtrack. It just burbles on through your speakers, soothing you, as it chews through the unwanted emails. Getting unwanted emails would become a good thing, like throwing logs on the fire. Jonathan wrote back: Sounds lovely, like a modified trash pail. Reverb, wind chimes, little snippets of the spam being read aloud, screaming as they descend into oblivion. I think you're onto something.  I replied: Yes, let's make ourselves rich with a stupid idea. What zeitgeist!!! Next step? Can you compose something, maybe an automatic lullaby generator? Have a cocktail....

We were this [ ] close. But bright ideas are like bug hatches.... Few grow up to be 747s.