Early in the interview he announces, "If I could use two words to describe what it is that I enjoy it is that I love to be sneakily outrageous", and then a few paragraphs later he says as a matter of fact, "I usually spend energy 'turning off' the idea-generating machine just as psychics train themselves to turn off their capability".

Now that's what I call sneakily outrageous :-)

Gem in that article: “I had never invented anything before,” he told me in an e-mail recently, “because no one had ever asked me to invent anything!”

Makes me really think about how and why I do things. That sentence struck a chord.

Treadarounds is hilarious. Reminds me that people get up to exercise, walk a treadmill, then go cart about for their afternoon golf game.

These are real, though they don't look any less ridiculous: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/maker_channel_105_t...

Love that pedal train. I would definitely hop on.