A Brilliant Idea
March 30, 2009 by Frank Hooks · Leave a Comment
How has everyone been doing? I haven’t written a blog in awhile because there is this thing called work that started interfering with my life. With all the belt tightening that has been going on, I have had to make some changes at the office. I have ended up working fourteen out of the last fifteen days. You could describe me as tired or a little bit loopy or just down right out of it. I came home from work today and fell asleep in the afternoon. Who sleeps on Monday afternoons? Only the exhausted.
I awoke with an idea, a wonderful awful idea. It was a passive revenue stream. It was flowing with money. Hard days and long hours are over. This was not only a wonderful awful idea, it was a million dollar idea that could revolutionize the internet. I was amazed with myself. Was I still dreaming? Am I capable of such innovation? I grabbed a pad of paper and a pen and starting jotting my revolutionary idea down. What have I been interested in lately? I am tired of doing what I am doing. Social networking, blogging, internet stuff. Okay, I like Facebook and I’m a member. My son is on Facebook, but he’s also on Myspace. That’s it. I’ve got it. Spacebook.
You get it? Not yet? Okay, Facebook seems to be for adults. Most of the people on Facebook seem to be 25 or older. Myspace seems to be for teenagers mostly. We need something for everyone else, hence, Spacebook. Don’t even bother going to godaddy to check it out. I’ve already bought the domain name. I also own a couple other domain names like cougars&milf.com and onlinemexicanpharmacy.com, but let me get back to the point.
Who is Spacebook for? Well, it’s for everyone else. The wack jobs, trekkies, dungeons and dragons, star wars geeks, and other various weirdos, malcontents and social deviants. We will speak the language of spam and the currency will be in viagra. Fake rolexes will tell time and Nigerian princes will cover the landscape. Identity theft will be commonplace and tweeters and twitterers will be incarcerated. Trojans will still come in more than one size, but they won’t protect you from the virus. Email accounts won’t be free and we’ll charge for usernames and passwords along with a subscription fee. It will be the badlands of the internet where everything goes and my paypal account will overflow with money. Google and Microsoft will be dwarfed by us.
What’s that I hear? “Frank, wake up. Honey, you need to wake up.” Huh. Where am I? I’m on the couch. I’ve been asleep. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. Wasn’t I an internet millionaire a minute ago? I must have been dreaming. Time for dinner and early to bed tonight because I’ve got another full day tomorrow.

I'm a 41 year old happily married father of three great kids. We live and love in Southern California. My blog is an outlet for me to pontificate on all things great about being a dad.