Are you spending a lot of time in front of the computer? Do you find that you don’t have enough hours in a day to make yourself a proper lunch or dinner? If so, won’t it be great to have something which you can easily eat without dirtying your keyboard? I am thinking of setting up a business selling food for computer geeks and freaks. Unlike other kinds of food which make it difficult to eat when you are busy typing or leaves a mess, computer food are a lot more “neat” so to speak. Will it work? Is there a market for computer snacks. Will geeks spend a little more on snacks which can satisfy both their hunger and their need for time?

Here are some criteria for “Computer Snacks”:

1. No preparation is needed. We computer guys like to eat our food and do work on the PC without spending hours preparing the food. But maybe microwave or the oven is acceptable.

2. Must not crumple easily. We don’t like to clean up afterwards. Worse, those little bits and pieces may drop into our keyboards and it may grow into some sort of a forest/jungle underneath the keyboard.

3. Neat. If we get our fingers or mouth dirty, we will have to clean it, either on the monitor table, mouse, keyboard or our clothes. This is not acceptable. We would prefer to have it in a good package so that we won’t dirty ourselves. Just peel of the top portion and start munching!

4. Tasty. Some of us have taste. Seriously.

5. Must be able to be purchased online. The most important is that it must be available online with free delivery worldwide. We will probably order a lot at one short. Our credit cards are due next month.

6. Looks good. Presentation is everything. It must be elegantly designed and must project a tingly feeling when geeks look at it online. This will make us want to buy it. Or lick the computer monitor.

7. Must not look like Scooby snacks. We have pride. No doggy snacks for us, even if it is so damn tasty, or so I heard from other pride-less geeks.

Other than fruit bars and beef jerkies, I don’t see any computer snacks out there. I am going to corner this market really soon. This is the beginning of an empire where computer geeks are the bosses! “Geeks! Geeks! Rally to me! Rally to me!”

PS: I had mispelled geeks as greeks. It is now corrected. No offense to the people from Greece, the crucible of civilization and mass orgies.