Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.

Tara ,'Empty Places'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


megan walker - Apr 21, 2011 8:20:59 am PDT #4525 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

If I were independently wealthy I'd probably travel and paint.

Substitute reading for painting and this is me.

Growing up on the campus of a NE prep school and spending early summers at Hay Harbor on Fishers Island, I've known lots of very rich people. IME, the attitude of the rich towards work and everything else totally depends on their parents and upbringing, especially old money versus new. If it's obvious someone has money, it is almost always relatively newly earned. (Although now I could probably read clothes better than I could in high school.)


Jesse - Apr 21, 2011 8:22:13 am PDT #4526 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I remember being totally mind-boggled the first time I drove through Phillips Andover probably at 12 or 13? Because the kids looked so scruffy! I thought they would be fancy. Possibly due to Pretty In Pink and similar.


Consuela - Apr 21, 2011 8:24:29 am PDT #4527 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Because the kids looked so scruffy! I thought they would be fancy

Heh. The students I knew in law school who came from money dressed very casually/poorly, in sloppy old khakis and falling-apart boat shoes. Really not what I expected from rich kids.


Calli - Apr 21, 2011 8:28:37 am PDT #4528 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I didn't know anyone rich while growing up. I knew a couple of dotcom millionaires after college. I still keep in touch with one of them. He's doing non-profit work and buying cars based on how interesting they are (a 1940s sedan, for example) rather than based on gas mileage or how long they'll last. He lives in a nice, 3-bedroom house in an older part of Durham, which costs money, but it's not helipad-on-your-roof-level money. His family is comfortably middle-class. You wouldn't look at him and go, "Hmmm, bet he has a cool couple of million stashed away." You'd probably go, "Hmmmm, bet he has some cool action figures on his desk." Which is also true.


tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 8:32:22 am PDT #4529 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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...

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Jesse - Apr 21, 2011 8:33:02 am PDT #4530 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Heh. The students I knew in law school who came from money dressed very casually/poorly, in sloppy old khakis and falling-apart boat shoes. Really not what I expected from rich kids.

Yeah, exactly that. Actual Preppies, who buy one nice thing and keep it forever.


tommyrot - Apr 21, 2011 8:42:16 am PDT #4531 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Thanks again for the wealth posts--I was trying to imagine this character but was mostly drawing a blank. Now I've got stuff to go on....


Consuela - Apr 21, 2011 8:51:29 am PDT #4532 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

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That is the most disturbing story about online fame ever. If that's the sort of thing people hear about the internet, no wonder they're terrified to let their kids get on FB.

Yikes.


SuziQ - Apr 21, 2011 8:53:25 am PDT #4533 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Nice thing about conference calls from home? Being able to do your nails and be productive at the same time. Got the new OPI shatter polish, so now I have glittery gold polish, with black shattered over it. Looks pretty cool.


§ ita § - Apr 21, 2011 8:53:47 am PDT #4534 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The richest branch of my family varies in attitude. Some of them coast (semi-successful pro athlete one, mentally ill but never tries to do anything about it other) and the others work like dogs. I mean, seriously, why do you need three jobs if one of them pays you three figures, and you have a husband and two kids, one of whom is special needs? But they're the Swiss boarding school, BMW at 16 kids whose lives I just never quite understood, even when I was living with them.