Is there a more boring photo than this? It's my shoe. Actually, it's part of my shoe and it's not even quite in focus. I'm yawning just looking at it.

Test entries can be very entertaining — if you're entertained by boredom. But boredom, of course, is often a condition necessary to creativity, the fertile soil from which new ideas emerge. When the brain has nothing else to do, it often thinks up stuff. Mine does, anyway. The ideas aren't always good, or practical, or even coherent, but they don't even exist without a little boredom.

Um, unfortunately, I haven't thought up any ideas since launching this boring test message, so maybe my theory isn't so good after all.