If you had a million dollars…
OK, not quite a million. Scrap that.
Here's the question. If you had $100 to spend on whatever you wanted, what would you spend it on? If you have two $50 things that's fine. List what you'd buy and what it costs. Then do the same with a purse of $1,000. Then do it for $10,000.
I'll start it off.
$100
- Socks and jocks. I saw some wicked Lonsdale boxers in Leederville for about $30 a pair and I'm always short of socks.
$1,000
- A bluetooth headset - the Jabra BT250. I used Peter's the other day and it was great. I like talking on the phone when I'm at a keyboard or in the car so this is a real necessity. Online for $147.
- The Art of Computer Programming. It's a three-book set written by Donald Knuth, one of computer science's biggest celebrities. I recently joined a mailing list that's attempting to read the books in 12 months, and though I've missed the start by a month, I'd still like to read them. About $150 after postage, if I can't get them cheaper locally.
- Some new work clothes. I like shirts with cufflinks and need some new pants. About $400.
- Ticket to Ruxcon. I've been asked to join a Capture the Flag team (the bottom of that WP article - God knows why, I'm no 1337 h4x0r ;) I need to get to Sydney for the weekend, but accomodation is taken care of - one of the other hackers has an appartment so we'd all be crashing there for that extra nerdy goodness. I think $300 would be about right.
$10,000
- A suit. How I've gone so long without one is amazing. I'd spend between $2,500 and $3,000.
- The NISMO body kit for the Zed. Imagine this, but in silver. $2,000 after it's bought, painted and installed. The Zed is about two weeks away. Ideal would be to have it for the trip down to Capel, but I'm dreamin'
- Trip to Canada. $5,000, as a minimum. I don't know the details yet other than that's where I want to go with Maggie.
I left off the remote control model helicopter, because I don't think that's really going to happen. It'd be nice, but it's very impractical.
Check it matt: You fly to Melbourne we pick up a three fiddy, then we do a road trip back to Perth.
i’ll be all for that shiznit.
~r
As for the thread:
$100: shit you cant buy anything for $100 these days… Maybe a few zombie dvd’s or something.
$1000: Some new clothes… I really want a pair of Onizuka sneakers… and a nice coat.
$10,000: Mr2. chargez0red version.
Thats me.
~r
$100: a gardener to pull out the weeds and cut the grass.
$1000: a landscape gardener to re-do the garden completely.
$10000: Round the world trip, to get away from the garden.
Looking at the messy garden is getting me down today, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be gardening weather.
$100: Thats about £40… it would subsidise a nice dinner out with Mel but is otherwise useless here.
$1000: £400… it would be half the cost of a weekend trip to Prague.
$10000: £4000… Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, then through eastern Europe to Turkey, Greece and Croatia.
$100 - Like you said, boxers and socks. That would burn through that amount in a second. I don’t like that it does, but it does :)
$1000 - Shout some beers, buy some clothes (jackets, shirts, work pants), maybe another guitar :)
$10000 - Powerbook, $500 to my sister, put some on CC and invest a few thou.
$100 - This doesn’t get you much these days. I’d probably get an iTrip for my iPod.
$1000 - Getting better… An XBOX, an iPod for Jess, and some funky clothes.
$10000 - Now we’re talking! A HD Plasma Screen, awesome sound system to match the TV, and a new PC.
This isn’t asking for too much is it?