For the price of a sandwich with fries and a Coke at the local Greek diner, you got long elaborate tales about the awesomeness of you, interspersed with anecdotes from his crazy Old South family and tales of his weekend adventures in Greenwich Village.
I would consider that money well-spent.
ION, I have stumped PayPal customer service. Go me? PayPal Australia recently sent me $20. For no reason, and with no email to contact them. I did all the anti-phishing stuff (didn't click any links, checked my paypal account in a separate https window), and yeah, the money is in my account. I just don't know WHY. Turns out, neither does PayPal customer service.
If this is the start of the universe randomly giving me money, I won't complain. Be confused, yes, but not complain.
Young, genteel raconteurs used to do quite well in olden days being the "extra man" at dinner parties and such.
Jilli, it's your iconness. And a Chrismukkwanzah miracle.
Jilli, it's your iconness. And a Chrismukkwanzah miracle.
So I should go buy a lottery ticket?
I've only had one friend who was a trust-fund baby (her grandfather was Dubuque, the meat packing company), and after she got her fun-but-not-very-practical Art degree, she was able to get by with a part-time job in a gallery after graduation and still live in a really nice apartment in Milwaukee right on the lake (there were some Bucks players living down the hall). Definitely a different life than mine!
The Ultimate Zoom-out, from the Himalayas to the horizon of our Universe and back
It's the total perspective vortex!
I was struck by the light time from Earth and the fact that just the goddamn Milky Way galaxy is HUGE. It makes me feel better about the fact that all the explorations in
Star Trek
were only in "the galaxy" and not the rest of the universe. The galaxy is big!
The Ultimate Zoom-out
Very nifty. I think this would make a great meditation device.
Jilli should definitely collect a comfortable living just for showing up.
I kinda wish I were something so superlatively that I could qualify for that as well.
I was struck by the light time from Earth and the fact that just the goddamn Milky Way galaxy is HUGE.
Cosmic distances are so vast it's hard to comprehend.
The closest star other than the sun is 4 ly away. Flying on the Concorde (1,400 mph cruise) it would take 1.9 million years to get there. The disk of the Milky Way is about 1,000 ly thick, and about 100,000 ly in diameter.
I can say that stuff empirically, but I really can't mentally grasp that kind of distance.
