-I've only seen Mt. Ranier once since I've been here, despite the fact that it looms over the entire region. My mouth gaped open as we traveled down a local highway, 1 mile from my home. It feels like we live in Pompeii.
-Seattle is just chock full of plump Asian girls. Or women. Chicks? How do I say that without being offensive? Is it "Asian"? Either way, the plumper they are, the more likely they are to wear black clothing with bright splashes of pink or purple.
-Jill and I haven't discussed it much, but we really miss all of our family and friends back East. There's a big you-shaped hole inside of us, I think the expression goes.
-Thanks to Jonathan for pimping that Penny Arcade comic. I've been through some of the archive, and it's quite good.
-I would have no problem voting for Obama if he got Bill Richardson to be on his ticket. I would not vote for him if the Clintons were on his ticket. They would be too disruptive to his presidency. If it's just the Clintons versus McCain, I'd have to look at it more closely. They both voted to go into Iraq. Of course, if it's a McCain/Romney ticket, I'd suck it up and vote Hillary.
-Elaine is totally hilarious much of the time.
-The Right and big business have been working hard to counteract the effects of Gore's documentary. Turns out the thousands of scientists that, amazingly, came to a rough consensus that we humans are having an effect on the global climate are just saying what it takes to keep their funding. (Ignore for the moment that the funding comes from the government, and recall the hostility the Bush administration showed to science in general.) The crux of the arguments seem to be that we can't actually know anything about our effect because of questionable measurement metrics over too short of a time, and that the planet goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling. To me, this is a red herring, because we have two basic problems that require immediate attention: the trees that reduce CO2 and produce oxygen are being wiped out at an exponential rate, and the pollution of our rivers and streams that is finding its way into the water tables and other organisms that we eat.
-Ever daydream about what you'd do with a nice, round figure like $10 million? I do, sometimes...
-Buy a house somewhere nice, with a goodly spread of land for my disc golf course. Oregon, maybe. Montana, too. Also, a flat in a major city (Manhattan, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona...)
-Move my parents and whoever Jill wants on her side of the family to wherever they want.
-Travel (By train if possible, but definitely first class on planes)
-Figure out a way to help a lot of people out here in the US. Become the Anonymous Philanthropist Vigilante!
-Open a brewpub with attached game store (duh).
What's your $10 Mil list?
My $10 Mil list? Couldn't be simpler. Wish-granting for family, obviously. Then get the boat kitted out and spend the rest of my born days a-roving.
ReplyDeleteActually, I might just do that anyway. $10 Mil or no $10 Mil.