Idea Bank

Have you ever had an idea that you thought was just too good? I mean, there is this idea, it seems just so damn simple yet so obvious that you can't really, honestly believe that nobody else has had the idea? I'm not talking about the sort of idea you get when you get too baked. Those ideas always seem brilliant, but in the cold light of the day-after are forgotten--or should be.

I'm talking about the sort of idea that might just make an impact on the world. Might not be sliced bread or a better mousetrap or cold fusion but then again. . .

Some times I get these ideas. Sometimes, after chewing on them for a while, I find the hole in the logic--the reason they just won't work. Some I've had for a while. I've hidden them, nourished and polished them in the hopes that one day I might actually be able to make them happen and then for a brief moment I will have all the fame, fortune and glory I so greatly deserve.

That inevitably leads me to the realization that I do not want fame, fortune and glory. Maybe a bit of the fortune but as for the other two, I'm too set in my ways and fond of answereing my door in nothing but a towel. Methinks my life would change and I'm quite fond of the way it has been playing out thank you very much.

Still, Some of these ideas linger and the older I get the less interested I am in saving them for myself--as something I might get around to eventually. (I actually saw a round tuit years ago. Just the one and I've never seen one since. I think after I've finished this post, I might just see if I can find one on Ebay. My current belief is that you can find anything on Ebay--but you probably already figured that out for yourself.)

I've decided I am going to start putting some of these ideas on my blog. Feel free to use these ideas to fix the world but if you do, please do the right thing and acknowledge the thinker. If you make a wheelbarrel full of money on any of them, a check will be fine. If you are interested in helping make any of these things happen, please, by all means, let me know and maybe if we put our heads together and bang in unison, we just might get somewhere.

I call these ideas my "get rich slow and painfully" ideas. I call 'em that because most of them won't make a dime and the ones that will (or might) will make it at a rather slow rate. Most of them aren't about making money--they are about fixing things and making a diference.

Idea # 27
Idea 27 began to develop from a discussion I had years ago about internet porn and some of the difficulties it presented to legitimate. I was researching a paper for "Psychology of Women" on gender reassignment surgery. The class had been more or less organized male bashing--there were only three of us in the class and one dropped after the first week. After listening to how much it sucked to be a woman because of men, I began to wonder why it seemed I had heard much about men wanting to be surgically altered to become women but never had I heard of a women wanting to--or actually becoming--a man through surgery.

The problem with the internet is that any search that included even a vague reference to sex or sexual organs or the like, would result in literally a million hits. Try looking up breast cancer back then and you'd get plenty of porn but you would most likely become frustrated well before you found what you were looking for.

The sex reassignment surgery thing seemed to reinforce the dominant view in the class. Once again he men had the advantage. It seems the reason there are more men surgically becoming women than vice-versa is that it is relatively easy to turn a man into a woman while it is nearly impossible to go the other way.

My idea? Fairly simple. We have .gov for government. We have .edu for schools. We have .tv for reasons that escape me. Why not a .xxx? With a xxx extension, it would be some much easier to protect our children while making it easy for those who want it to find the porn.

I suppose some of the porn site people might have a problem with it but it could hardly be considered censorship. Even if some providers choose to block the xxx addresses, somebody else will step in and provide that service.

It might create a stampeede to secure the new .xxx addresses but, to be fair, anyone with a praticular .com should be allowed first option on the .xxx site of the same name.

Neither of us are likely to make any money on this idea but maybe it will protect free speech and the children at the same time.

My next get rich slow and painful will have to do with trains.