What are your wishes?
2003-06-30 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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What are your top three wishes that could plausibly be realized in the next 5 years? How much would you offer as a prize now to see your wish fulfilled within that time period?
1. Have enough "passive" investment income (stocks, bonds, mutual funds) to provide an income of at least $25 K/year. Assuming that a 4% drawdown is possible without affecting the principal, that would be savings of about $625,000.00 dollars in 2003 dollars.
Prize: $63,000 (assuming that my savings after payment would be $625 K)
2. Find a compatible mate. My "ideal" mate would be:
* Life-loving -- Plans to be cryopreserved if she becomes terminally ill/injured. Has so many things that she would like to do it would take several lifetimes at least to achieve them all.
* Freedom loving -- Supports the Free State Project and plans to move to the state when chosen.
* Health-conscious -- Eats brocolli, fish, and other healthy foods.
* Athletic -- Likes to run, lift weights, bike, rollerblade, mountain climb.
* Child-friendly -- Wants to have 1 - 2 kids.
* Politically aware -- Enjoys discussing politics and economics (among other things).
* Intellectually curious -- loves to read on a wide range of subjects. Knows where all the bookstores and libraries are in town.
* Frugal -- wants to be financially independent. Values freedom over material goods.
* Kindhearted -- doesn't deliberately do anything to hurt anyone else. Makes amends if she does.
* Responsible -- pays bills on time, and keeps commitments.
* Action-oriented -- if confronted by a problem, she takes what action she can, then forgets about it. Doesn't complain fruitlessly.
* Self-reliant -- Doesn't wait for somebody to come rescue her.
* Funny -- Likes Simpsons, South Park, Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, Get Fuzzy. Laughs at my jokes.
* Optimistic -- doesn't give up.
* Sexy -- likes to dress in leather pants, reads excerpts from "Machinery of Freedom" while feeding me peeled grapes.
Prize: $5,0000
3. Successfully cryopreserve one of the following mammalian organs -- liver, heart, kidney, brain -- from one of the following species: rats, rabbits, dogs, cats, monkeys, humans. Successful cryopreservation is defined as cooling the organ below -130'C for 7 days, rewarming it, then transplanting it back into an animal, and the animal surviving using that organ as it's sole source of support for 366 days.
Prize: $10,000
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Date: 2003-06-30 10:44 am (UTC)Except I have five children (and want more), and I don't watch tv. (But that doesn't mean I don't have a sense of humor, I just don't like tv.)
You have some way of saving/investing $625k in the next 5 years?
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Date: 2003-06-30 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-30 01:06 pm (UTC)Watching TV isn't required--however, I've found that liking South Park is a good predictor of whether we'll find the same things funny.
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Date: 2003-06-30 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-01 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-01 09:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-30 10:46 am (UTC)Awww, yess!!! Brilliant, I say!
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Date: 2003-06-30 12:58 pm (UTC)So what are your wishes?
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Date: 2003-07-01 07:44 am (UTC)That smart but socially inept people should not be allowed to practice medicine, unless they are going to be surgeons.
That morally corrupt people should not be allowed to rule any country or be in any branch of the goverment or institution that has enough power to regulate people's lives.
If someone could find a way to educate people about waste management and on how to utilise resources efficiently, I would be forever grateful.
In a significant other, besides your brilliant Sexy comment, I would want someone who is sure of himself, but not cocky, versatile, musically inclined, open-minded, fearless (but in a "smart" way, not in a I-can-jump-off-the-window-and-be-ok way), smart without being obnoxious, and non-judgmental. Phew...
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Date: 2003-07-01 10:42 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-07-02 12:05 pm (UTC)Ok... Perhaps instead of teaching people how to behave a certain way, simply testing them would be better. Therefore, if someone is naturally inclined to be an a-hole, instead of changing him/her, he/she would simply be prohibited to hold certain positions, and hopefully a caring, honest person could serve as a role model instead...
Any other ideas?
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Date: 2003-06-30 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-30 12:55 pm (UTC)Too old? Pschaw.
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Date: 2003-06-30 11:10 am (UTC)Thinking somewhat less about it, my three wishes would be:
1. A career I enjoy.
2. Extensive happy travel.
3. To publish my books.
I'm not sure how much I would pay, because at the moment I have very little money. It'd be no good saying I'd pay a few thousand to publish my books, and then end up bankrupt.
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Date: 2003-06-30 12:57 pm (UTC)Although you may not have much money now, isn't there some amount you could offer? If so, how much?
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Date: 2003-06-30 04:42 pm (UTC)I want to go everywhere.
I have not much, as in barely any, money right now. I could offer to give it all for a career that would eventually give it back and allow me to travel, but that's about it. I wouldn't want to pay to have my books published. I'd rather someone actually thought they were good enough to be published.
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Date: 2003-06-30 06:13 pm (UTC)For example, would you be happy if you made the following trips withint the next 5 years:
"Within the next five years, I want to have lived in Bangkok, Thailand for 5 weeks, Amsterdam for 5 days, London for 5 weeks, Rio de Janeiro for 3 weeks."
If someone, somehow could make those trips happen for you within the next five years, could you offer them a prize of $500.00, to be paid after you've actually completed the trips?
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Date: 2003-06-30 06:15 pm (UTC)Are you going anywhere with this, or is it just curiosity?
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Date: 2003-06-30 06:27 pm (UTC)http://www.openknowledge.org/writing/open-source/scb/
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Date: 2003-06-30 02:51 pm (UTC)-to earn my PhD, maybe this could happen in 5 years
-to have married a wonderful, intellectual, dancing, sarcastic, ambitious husband
-to own a house.
i don't really have much prize money to offer, but i have been making some really cool magnets out of beer caps. and in five years i'll probably have a bunch of those.
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Date: 2003-06-30 06:06 pm (UTC)Better plan on drinking lot's of Schlitz. Now, a husband who "sways vaguely in time to the beat" could be had for a couple of six packs.