Forbes magazine has hypothosized – based on the home, the lifestyle, his work, and his crime fighting gear, training and equipment – that Bruce Wayne is probably worth about $6.3 billion. (scroll down on the MSNBC story to “Being Batman” for the full accounting.
And now that a decent dollar figure has been put to it, I am having a harder time liking Bruce. I have never met a real billionaire, but locally, Phil Anschutz is pretty famous for not being a nice guy. But I have always thought Batman was kind of cool – mainly becuase without super powers he was a great super hero. Now, with a budget attached, the fantasy is dented and busted a bit. Peter Paker and his middle class upbringing and continual struggle for dough kind of takes on a new light compared the vast fortune of the Wayne empire.
Alas. What super hero to be. And how. I must get back to the lab and develop my own super compound (probably made with gin!)
Ever Heard OF Green Cine?
Gas Prices To Hit $3.00?
If indeed this is true, and Pickens is considered an expert in these matters, then the economy will take a major tumble in the next few months. $3.00 a gallon is a huge expense and such an increase will cause transportation prices to rapidlly increase, leading to price increases on everything! I ain’t an economist, but this doesn’t bode well.
Most retail chains have developed highly sophisticated alogrythms that allow them to keep inventory low – and as a result, transportation of cargo and inventory is a huge expense for retailers – especially big national chains like Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy. As the costs of keeping the shelves stocked goes up, so will prices. It won’t just be SUV’s that see a dramatic loss in sales. Consumers will stop buying all the crap they covet on their suburban jaunts to their nearest big box retailer. The already failing airline industry will feel the effect of rising fuel costs as well. The economy’s perilous position is poised above the shitter and gasoline priced at $3.00 a pound could easily be the thing that sends it toppling.
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Friday Fives
1. In your opinion, what characteristics make a good father? Also, what traits make a good grandfather?
Patience and realistic expectations. Dads who expect their son to be the football star or relive their youth vicariously through their kids are kind of lame and overbearing.
2. Do you have any special plans for this Father’s Day weekend?
Not really. Probably just a quick call home to the Ranch to wish Jim well.
3. Who’s your favorite “television dad”?
Andy Griffith, followed by Dick Van Dyke.
4. What’s the most important thing that your father ever told you?
Career advice Do what you want to do and love, make sure you are happy and whatever you do, don’t go to work for the Post Office. I probably could, and in fact have on this blog already, lapse into long essays on GW, but not today. Although he was in my dream last night. He was getting the dandelions out of the front yard while mom and Jim packed up the motorhome to go to the ranch. There was so much going on in that specific dream that I could keep a therapist busy for years.
5. Is your father difficult to buy Father’s Day gifts for? Why/why not? What types of things does he like?
He used to be. We always got him a tie, since he wore one to work everyday and really enjoyed the ones we got him. For my stepfather, a gift card to Home Depot is still the best thing ever. They will never be done building the house.
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Friday Fives
1. How old were you when you got your driver’s license? Learned to drive a stick shift?
My first car was a family hand-me-down. It was a stick shift with “3 on the tree.” That’s what I learned to drive on when I 15 years old. I wonder why they don’t do the gear shift on the steering column for stick shifts anymore?
2. Who taught you how to drive?
Mostly mom. Dad took me out a few times, but he never had the patience with me. Mom is the one who ended up going around with me the most when I had my driver’s permit. I had driver’s education in school and was actually taught to drive by the father of a minor celebrity. In my memory, it involved lots of yelling and cussing. Although that isn’t actually true, because Mr. C is a rather gentle man with no real cussing vocabulary. Interesting how the mind changes the facts after many, many years.
3. Cars: first, current and pie-in-the-sky future?
Current: The OMC! (Old Man Car) A rather large Ford Taurus. In the Future: Something real sporty – an obscure Japanese thing, perhaps. Or maybe a 1960s muscle car vintage coup of some make/model.
4. Napster/Kazaa/Filesharing: A crime or the Best Thing Ever?
Best Thing Ever! As a result of file share in late 90s and early millennium, I found more artists I had never paid attention to and as a result ended up buy more music than ever before. Now, with most of the P2P gone, I am buying less music. Just goes to show ya.
5. You’ve just inherited $35 million dollars. Show me how you’d spend it.
Pay off Mom and Jim’s ranch, buy a nice big home – one of those fancy ones on 6th Ave. Drop a bunch into long term steady investing . And travel. Many of us have talked at great length of the world tour of food.
To paraphrase Springsteen – “Mister the day the lottery comes, I am flying on jet plane for lunch with Ho Chi Minh.”
Jaguhugel
Wanna comparison shop your web search? Try Jaguhugel (Pronounced Yahoogle – get it?) It will place a twin paned search results page, giving you Yahoo’s and Google’s search results on any given input, side-by-side.
It’s full of kind of fun, make-you-go-hmmmm stuff.
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Friday Fives
1. If you could be famous for 15 minutes, what would the headline read?
Roy’s Leads Globe In Nose Picking (Not what I want to be famous for, just the unfortunate reality.)
2. Do you think fame would change you?
Absolutely. I would have a cleaning woman, and a personal trainer. I would be a whole different animal. I mean, really, what is fame? Mother Theresa fame? Micheal Jackson fame? I think if I could be famous for perhaps writing and had the chance to reflect on fame in that respect, then sure, fame would change me, because I would no longer be a working stiff and instead would focus on writing more and more as a vocation, rather than my current state of writing as a time wasting hobby. But if I had to have the kind of fame of Michael Jordan or Arnold Schwarzenegger, I think that fame would also change me and my reaction would be flee from it in hopes of returning to my actual life with real friends and family surrounding me.
3. Has your name ever appeared in the newspaper? ..what for?
Yes. Besides my stint as a newspaper reporter – where my name was on the byline or on my column, I also had the rare, rare Craig honor of appearing the Northwest Colorado Daily Press as a young boy in High School, when I was named Citizen of the Day. That’s right, I am saying it right now – I was the FIRST minor celebrity. Eat that, y’all!
4. Would you like to be famous for *more* than 15 minutes?
Nah. Fame ain’t that important to me. Being comfortable and able to do what I want is. Depending on the degree of fame, it looks to be so uncomfortable and down right lonely.
5. If you could perform one act of Good while you were famous, what would it be?
One act? End War. It is the cause of some much that is wrong. No more war would work to end hunger and greed and a lot of problems stem from them.