Bill W, some guy in New Zealand already uses ‘Warp Drive Fins’ for his surfboard fins so we’ll have to come up with something else before I do a product launch.
Bill T said "Surffoils, too bad you live so far away. We could have some real fun, working closley together, on some of this stuff. If only, eh? "
Finding a creative collaborator can be difficult, invention is such a mercurial process of instant epiphany, failure, a roller coaster of success and loss and requires the essential quality of being eternally optimistic from the start. It’s one thing to be contrary and say Oh I think I could do better, but another thing to actually start the process and then be such a ratbag* to not give up until you’ve got what you’ve wanted or run aground.
- Ratbag, noun and adjective, person often at odds with the status quo.