Today it was single-digit temperatures as I disembarked the bus and started thinking about lunch. You see, Wednesdays are when our Team Manager Management Team gets together for lunch. To talk about solutions, pose situations and bridge gaps so we can be more unified when stuff happens. And it wasn't too early to think about lunch (is it ever too early?) because by 6:45 am, I had emails suggesting Houlihan's or Cadillac Ranch, both of which are close to the office.
And it occurred to me: what's my tolerance for walking outdoors to lunch when the temperature is 5°F?
In my Google Reader is a small XML file that brings in an image from Indexed, a website full of 3x5 cards. So I'm familiar with the idea: A 3x5 card with an image, usually an X-Y graph or Venn diagram, taking two or more dissimilar ideas and relating them.
Since I was at work, I couldn't search the site for my idea (blocked by Websense), so I drew my own. My apologies to Indexed if I've plagiarized; I didn't find anything similar here. If this idea isn't on your site, perhaps it should be.