[4135] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
RE: do you wish you did this??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown, R Ken)
Fri Feb 5 09:45:44 1999
From: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>,
"'mmotyka@lsil.com'" <mmotyka@lsil.com>
Cc: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 04:57:18 -0600
> Michael Motyka[SMTP:mmotyka@lsil.com]
>
> Pretty damn generic patent.
I'm thinking of taking out a US patent on a method of personal;
transportation that involves putting one foot in front of the other on the
ground or any other approximatly horizontal surface, shifting the balance of
the body so that the centre of gravity is moved first over then slightly
beyond a gravitationally vertical line drawn through the ball of the big
toe of the leading foot whilst lifting the trailing foot off the ground and
moving it in front of the first foot whilst making continual tracking
adjustments to the balance to remain uproght. Then repeat until the
destination is reached.
Looks like it would be a cinch to get a patent on that in America. Then we
can sue the army every time they march. Or maybe we should just go straight
to patenting sucking eggs.
Ken
