Sunday, December 9, 2007

If you are reading this because the title intrigues you, then, well, I am mortified. Rebecca came up with the title (the Porn Identity part of it), so I thought I would borrow it to mention a kiddie pop singer by the name of Hannah Montana. It must be the rhyming thing, but whenever I hear that name, I keep thinking "porn star". Though maybe porn stars are more into alliteration than rhymes.

And I have some bad news (sort of). I had this million dollar idea, but it's kind of been taken. If you've ever bought or sold a textbook, you will know that books that have been heavily marked up with highlighters don't fetch as much money. Well, about 5 or 6 years ago, I realized the solution to this is a removable highlighter. I imagined that it must be possible to come up with some kind of fluorescent liquid that dries like a removable tacky rubber cement. Put it in a roller pen, and voila! Well, for some reason I decided to google "removable highlighter" tonight and found that highlighter tape is available for that purpose. I should also add, to my credit, that I had also considered this as a possible way of implementing my idea, since I am familiar with white correction tape. The good news is that the product isn't available in a marker form, which I think would be way cooler than tape. And that the general idea is apparently marketable also reaffirms the excellence of my idea. I have no contacts at 3M, nor am I a chemist, however, so I will never see a dime from this idea.

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