Archive for July 2nd, 2007
July 2nd, 2007 | 
Author: A few years ago, not long after I started my blog, I posed a question while writing that I’ve only just discovered the answer to…
Yippppeeee for the hippy and his excellent long-term memory. It’s a real shame about my short term memory though.
Now, what was I saying.
Oh yeah, look up, read and continue writing…
Anyway, I wrote a little something about how we are ALL LOSERS. Click that link and check out some vintage hippy!
The date’s not there, on that old entry. It got lost when I moved from my old blogspot home. It was posted on Sunday, 23rd May 2004, as if matters.
Once you’ve read it, and I hope you will, you will see that at the time I could not find a reliable statistic for the number of millionaires in the world.
According to a RECENT STUDY, there are approximately 9.5 million people with assets in excess of one million US dollars.
I’ll restate that fact, only with a bit more impact. There are around 9 and a half million rich cunts out there with more than a million yankee dollars in the bank.
Sadly, my friends and hippyfans, I am not amongst this rather large segment of the population.
Come on, it’s more people than I would have expected. Would you have guessed that many?
Fuck me, I’m a loser! If 9.5 million people have more money than me (and the truth is, it’s probably closer to 100 or 1000 times more than that, because I wouldn’t exactly call myself rich!), then I am really doing something very, VERY wrong!
Now, you could take the view that the memory of my earlier post, combined with finding that millionaire study, resulted in me recycling old material as a way to generate new content.
You could say a lot of things.
The truth is, that old post of mine is one of my all time favourites, and if there’s an excuse to refer back to it, then dammit, this hippy is gonna take it!
It used to be part of a page that listed my top ten, “best of the hippy” posts. Perhaps I should reinstate that section. As I said at the time, there’s an awful lot of content here on my site now and while there are a few real gems, there’s also a lot of dross and “what I had for lunch” posts too.
OK, sold – I’ll add the “best of the hippy” onto my rather lengthy to-do list.
Hippy confession-time: I’ve just finished working 90 hours in the last 9 nights. Go me! And it wasn’t an easy week, it was actually quite difficult and I am drained.
If you want to know the real truth, I feel like a 2-dollar whore on payday, in a port city with the entire fleet docked for the weekend.
You get the idea.
I’m off for the next week and a half, and I have loads I need to do, but I promise I will be back soon with the following three planned posts:
1) Answers to your questions – when I recently made an appeal for what you would like to know about, I actually received a fairly strong response. The best I’ve ever had to one of my mail-ins and considering there was no prize (like my old bong, or old car!), I am very pleased. Thank you all who wrote in and keep them coming! Sorry for the delay, but I now have a list of things you all want to know about and that will be posted very soon.
2) Big Brother – some of you love it, some of you hate, but all I know is I get a lot more of you hanging around on my site, when I post about BB, so I ain’t stoppin’ now! I need to do a bit of catching up, but expect my latest observations later in the week.
3) My brand new, shiny, lickable 2.16 Core2Duo Black MacBook – it arrived a few days ago, just before I ready to hit the sack. I have had precious little time to play with it and finish setting it up. That said, I am in love with it already and will save the rest of my initial impressions for the end of the week. Once I’ve really put it through it’s paces, I’ll be ready to share.
So that’s it for now. I’m going to spark up a small, yet perfectly formed spliff, cue up last night’s BB highlights and rest, relax and recharge my batteries. My reserve-power warning light’s been flickering for days, but have I been paying attention?