what could've been

years ago, the three of us were sitting in bistro francais in georgetown, enjoying a late night dinner.

the discussion somehow went to coming up with ideas and getting venture caps to fund us, thus making a gazillion billion dollars.

i came up with a usb peripheral that you could have sex with, that somehow it would be a simulation of sex. for geeks that never leave their computers. what does this have to do with the story? nothing. just thought i'd mention it, that's all.

then someone (don't remember who, exactly) came up with the idea of having a machine that would emit scents depending on which website the user was visiting. for example, if someone was visiting a travel site and looked at beach destinations, the machine would emit some sort of beachy smell. ocean breeze maybe.

the idea somehow died. maybe it was because we knew nothing about the makeup of smells, if it could be broken down into a few basic scents that could be mixed together at a later time to produce various different scents. maybe it was just because we didn't really think it would lead anywhere. maybe we weren't aggressive enough.

today, one of the other two people involved in this conversation emailed the rest of us.

it could've been us