Things to do if/when I'm rich [Palfrey's life]

Personally I hope this becomes impossible and that we head into post-scarcity economics ASAP, but in the event I happen to get my mitts on a whole pile o' cash, there's a few things I'd like to do. The last of which is new today, hence the blogging.

Open up a bar where smart shoes are banned. I may even have to carpet the whole darn thing and ban shoes entirely. Or use some other floor material that combines easy-to-clean with being nice on bare/sock-wearing feet

Open the Bistro Onomatopoeia (reason: bad joke in Against A Dark Background). Failing that, build a Lazy Gun (same book) or a serious FYT suit (Use of Weapons)

And the new addition: buy up as many little out-of-the-way 2nd hand bookstores as possible, and resist all attempts to turn them into Borders and/or Starbucks. Reasons: so much good times spent in them, but nowhere near enough in recent times. That, and watching the Voyager episode "11:59" which centres around a bookstore

Call it a meme if you wish, but here's my request: list 3 things you'd do if you had lots of money. Unusual things (*not* "build a harem") encouraged.

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Eek! The first worries me on purely selfish grounds; I don't tend to wear anything apart from smart (or at least smart-ish shoes). But then I prefer a pub to a bar.

The third I heartily agree with.

I shall give some thought to my three requests.

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Well, in the case that I do open this bar, there will be provision for some sort of free shoe storage at the front entrance, for those who come wearing (smart) shoes. This all comes out of a night spent bar/pub-crawling with

rattieally (mmm... Bristol pubs poster ticking-off...) and my threatening to take off my shoes before I entered one of the long list of smart-shoes-only bars to solve the "not wearing smart shoes" problem.

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Ah, well that explains that... Although the pedantic among us could probably prove that "not wearing shoes" is a superset of "not wearing smart shoes" and therefore still contravenes a "those not wearing smart shoes are to be denied access" rule.

Hey, I can still type even though I've had far too much to drink! Bonus!

[No claims are made as to how much sense is made by said drunking typings.]

Logically correct, however you neglect to note the *reason* behind the "smart shoes only" policies - the refusal of entry to scruffy bastards (i.e. me), and so I think the reasoning behind most bouncers not letting a shoe-less me in would be more "crap, we've got a *mad* scruffy bastard" rather than a noting of sub/superset relations. Hence why I never carried out my threat to take off my shoes before attempting to enter one of these places. Plus, the actual words are usually "no trainers"....

Aha! Mad scruffy bastard -- I can do that look!

Bare feet in a drinking establishment....
*images of everyone limping with shards of glass in their feet*

Obviously this is going to therefore be a bit up-market and able to afford not-shit cleaning staff to be able to make sure the floor stays foot-friendly.

How would you handle a breakage during opening hours? I suppose 'carefully' is the obvious answer...

Do you think a bar where shoes are banned would also have to be one of those horrible bars where everything comes in plastic glasses for health and safety reasons? I'd rather wear smart shoes than drink from a plastic glass.

Argh, stop it! It took me years to repress the memories of drinking Guinness from a plastic pint pot in the Wills bar :-/

Gah. Hadn't considered that. As this is kinda my fantasy bar, the whole style of the thing is critical, and plastic glasses are therefore a no. Hmm... might be able to turn this to my advantage. If standard glass is out on H&S grounds, and plastic is also pretty darn awful, then we'll have to go with less-conventional materials. Possibly some sort of polycarbonate/aerogel (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=490) mix. Things to consider while I figure out how to make lots of money...

♣ Move out, and dye my hair blue and pink. It's probably not super-unusual, but it's what I would do with the money.
♣ Finish buying the Sandman series used.
♣ I would love to have a show on PBS. I know it's not determined by money, but I think it would rock.

If you're gonna get a whole bunch of money, I'd go for buying a *new* copy of the Sandman books. I'll probably have to add a set of the Transmetropolitan graphic novels to my list (along with more mundane items like a vast quantity of computer stuff, and enough books to feed my habit for at least a week or two).

Hmm.. I knew next to nothing about PBS a few minutes ago, and now I know a little about the process at least. So what would the show be about? Have a great idea, or at least a general idea of which of their themes you're aiming for?

I really enjoy used books, though! I always feel as though I'm rescuing them from the used book pound or something. Plus reuse is far better for the environment than recycling.

As for a show on PBS, I would want a show where I would start by discussing an art piece, but tangent a lot. I have a lot of historical background and useless information on my side. I'm only half-kidding when I say this.

If I've got lots of cash, then in general I'd rather go for buying a new copy, as that way the author may get some cash, as opposed to buying a used copy when they won't get anything. Meh, I enjoy getting lots of books cheap, but given that what's actually important to me is the story rather than the book itself (big arguments had on this one with my art student brother) I think I'll have to add "put R&D money into actually making the damn e-paper book we've been promised for years, with full decent multi-platform support and no fscking DRM" to my todo list.

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