Random thought thread!

jason · 2012-03-30T05:03:44.000Z

Anders Hallin:

I think you guys sorely underestimate the pleasure someone can get from stimulating their imagination about what they’d do with x million for half an hour.

Half an hour? I go to the movies, spend $10 minimum for a ticket, and I get 2 hours of entertainment. I buy a $1 lottery ticket on Wednesday for a drawing on Friday, I get 2 DAYS worth of day dreaming and fantasizing. Sure, technically I could do that without spending the dollar, but if I don’t spend the dollar then I know for 100% certainty that those are nothing but dreams and not potential “plans”.

And if no one wins the $540million tonight, I can buy a ticket on Saturday for Tuesday’s likely $650million jackpot and get another 3 DAYS of entertainment for $1 more.

Giaddon · 2012-03-30T07:27:09.000Z

Words with Friends, Hanging with Friends… when will we get Shoot your Friends?

RichVR · 2012-03-30T07:53:23.000Z

My mother, in her 80s, still makes the best damn meatballs I have ever eaten. Bar none.

Dave_Perkins · 2012-03-30T07:54:04.000Z

Someone in her 80s can still make meatballs?!

RichVR · 2012-03-30T07:56:03.000Z

I’d like to see someone try to stop her.

divedivedive · 2012-03-30T09:08:24.000Z

Anders Hallin:

I think you guys sorely underestimate the pleasure someone can get from stimulating their imagination about what they’d do with x million for half an hour.

But you don’t have to buy a lottery ticket to do that. And you’ll be a dollar richer than the fellow who does.

jason · 2012-03-30T09:12:05.000Z

If you don’t buy the ticket, it’s an empty dream that CANNOT come true. With the $1 purchase, you’ve allowed for the possibility, no matter how remote, of it become real.

RichVR · 2012-03-30T09:44:25.000Z

Heh. Mom just came back from walking her dog. She bought lottery tickets for the wife and I.

Meatballs and a dream. Life is good. :^)

Sarkus · 2012-03-30T15:50:46.000Z

Another weird thing about my visit to the eye doctor yesterday is that both of my eyes improved. The doctor mentioned noticing that about one of them, but it wasn’t until I was looking at the prescription later that I realized both had changed. My contact prescription improved in my left eye by a full point and in my right by half a point.

Not sure how that can happen. Maybe because I wear my glasses a lot more then I used to?

BrianRubin · 2012-03-30T15:55:23.000Z

Since our company’s Facebook page is becoming a timeline, they’re photographing various employees making human letters to spell out the name of our company, which I think is a really adorable idea.

Dawn_Falcon · 2012-03-30T16:04:17.000Z

Sarkus:

Not sure how that can happen. Maybe because I wear my glasses a lot more then I used to?

Your eyes keep changing through your life. Usually it’s just to become less short-sighted, but I (in my 30’s) had a slight astigmatism just vanish between tests.

RichVR · 2012-03-30T17:45:27.000Z

Yeah at my last checkup I was told that my vision had gotten a bit better. Now I’m slightly less legally blind without glasses. OTOH I have the very beginning of cataracts, so you win some you lose some.

Omniscia · 2012-04-03T18:29:32.000Z

The banner ads 'round these parts are suggesting I look into getting myself a Ukrainian mail-order bride.

I have no idea what would bring that on.

Alistair · 2012-04-03T18:42:13.000Z

jason:

If you don’t buy the ticket, it’s an empty dream that CANNOT come true. With the $1 purchase, you’ve allowed for the possibility, no matter how remote, of it become real.

Why don’t you just dream the winner gives you the money?

Strato · 2012-04-04T03:04:39.000Z

Alistair:

Why don’t you just dream the winner gives you the money?

You got to be in it to win it. It is that simple.

mdowdle · 2012-04-04T04:05:47.000Z

jason:

If you don’t buy the ticket, it’s an empty dream that CANNOT come true. With the $1 purchase, you’ve allowed for the possibility, no matter how remote, of it become real.

I wish more economists understood this!

mdowdle · 2012-04-04T04:07:23.000Z

RichVR:

Yeah at my last checkup I was told that my vision had gotten a bit better. Now I’m slightly less legally blind without glasses. OTOH I have the very beginning of cataracts, so you win some you lose some.

Um, if you’re near-sighted, once you pass a certain age, you’re vision starts to improve. Just sayin’.

And stay off my lawn.

jason · 2012-04-04T04:19:26.000Z

Alistair:

Why don’t you just dream the winner gives you the money?

You have a far better chance of actually winning the lottery than you do of having the someone else win and give you the money.

RichVR · 2012-04-04T12:19:31.000Z

Then why did I buy this gun?

walTer · 2012-04-04T13:00:58.000Z

Finally got a chance to see REO Speedwagon. Yeah I felt old but good. Memories of a college bar filled with us drunks singing Time For Me To Fly…good times.

The lead singer just hit 61 and really hasn’t missed a beat. And I have a band t-shirt now. Heh.