Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

[MaskedOne]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

finish paying my car; a small house (either the one I'm in or another, doesn't matter); the rest of my education; computer stuff; PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;

I'll get back to this when I find something that consistently makes me money that can be purchased. I'd prefer not to buy a small business but it's an option I guess.

[Corvus]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

You have 1 million dollars. What do you buy? No, you can't save it. Spend!

Education. I'd like to get my degree for me. The whole college experience is something I want too.

A trip to Kansas (or multiple) to visit someone. Oh and some lavish dinners and other fun things with that someone.

A medium-ish sized house at the base of the catskills in one of those villages I see that somehow still seem suburban while having trees and big spaces everywhere. I'll selfishly fill it with books and beanbag chairs . It'll have a fabulous master bathroom with a huge tub that I can soak in with lavender bubble bath. Oh! and a ginormous bed with dozens of fluffy comforters and pillows and a big TV I could hook up to my computer. The backyard should have a big hardwood tree too but the backyard itself needn't be too big.

A nice reliable car, maybe a hybrid.

If there's anything else left hire a financial adviser to invest the rest in good stocks. Alternatively give what's left to OldeOne (long ago she was once on pf and she's great) as start up money for the pagan settlement she wants to make.

[Hawkfeathers]

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(Corvus, my grandparents had a summer bungalow in the Catskills. I loved going there as a kid.)

A trip to the fall Keeneland thoroughbred auction, and start up my own racing stable.

[volcaniclastic]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

Pay debt. Buy land. Buy mom a house elsewhere. Spend the rest traveling until I'm broke.

[Bjorn]

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Pay debt. Buy land. Buy mom a house elsewhere. Spend the rest traveling until I'm broke.

Yup. Me too to a tee.

[thalassa]

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Pay ALL the bills, buy two new cars and a beach-side condo (or cottage), with a couple acres in the Shenandoah and two yurts (one for guests). Pre-pay college for the kids (its doable here). Get kickass civil war reenacting gear and camping gear. Take a 8 month sabbatical (Scott too) and travel around the world with the kids (really, I'd like to save enough to do this when they are more like 11 and 13).

And, I'll be honest, get "the mommy package" (generally, its a tummy tuck and some sort of breast augmentation--either a lift or implants...I've had the boobs reduced already, so they don't really need to be lifted, but a tummy tuck gets rid of some of the stretchmarks and the parts that never actually go back once you've had kids via c-section)

[Medusa]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

What was the last thing/event that caused you to be awestruck?

[ThorsSon]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

Beethoven's Appassionata (Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57) as played by Jonathan Biss

[volcaniclastic]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

What was the last thing/event that caused you to be awestruck?

Saw a lynx.

[Ophidia]

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What was the last thing/event that caused you to be awestruck?

I'm constantly awestruck by things. Nature, science, my dog...

Last week we had some monsoon storms. Lightning over Las Vegas is always awe-inspiring, even if it happens every summer

[Jembru]

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What was the last thing/event that caused you to be awestruck?

I wasn't going to answer, because the things that cause me to be awestruck seem so trivial to anyone but me, but then Corvus told me about this..

Redstone is basically what minecraft uses as electricity and some pretty cool things can be done with it, if you're clever enough. I have, however, never seen something anywhere near as complex as this. A real, working calculator, done entirely in minecraft. I'm hoping a team worked on this, because if it was only one single person, then awestruck hardly covers it.

The human race amazes me sometimes. Our ability to explore, learn, problem solve and create is almost supernatural. I just wonder what that mind could be achieving if they weren't spending so many hours on minecraft!

[ThorsSon]

Re: Medusa's Question Du Jour *the millenium edition!*

I wasn't going to answer, because the things that cause me to be awestruck seem so trivial to anyone but me, but then Corvus told me about this..

Redstone is basically what minecraft uses as electricity and some pretty cool things can be done with it, if you're clever enough. I have, however, never seen something anywhere near as complex as this. A real, working calculator, done entirely in minecraft. I'm hoping a team worked on this, because if it was only one single person, then awestruck hardly covers it.

The human race amazes me sometimes. Our ability to explore, learn, problem solve and create is almost supernatural. I just wonder what that mind could be achieving if they weren't spending so many hours on minecraft!

me = dumbfounded

[Corvus]

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I was really amazed when I first saw 15 bit graphics. I got pokemon ruby and spent ten minutes gushing over how sharp and beautiful everything was. How naive of me! but I was young and had been playing gameboy color before that.