I suppose having a lot of money can be a good problem to have. For example you get to sit around or under a tree (that is of your liking and you own) on your very own beach of your very own Island sipping your very own brand of pineapple juice made on your own farm served by a local who you also (essentially) own.
Whilst sipping said beverage you get to contemplate of the other islands of the planet that you currently do not own and could or would like to own.
This rambling merely highlights the news recently that the Oracle chief had gone ahead and just bought one of the six Hawaiian islands.
Lends credence to my earlier proposal where Messrs. Gates and Buffett should just go ahead and pick up Africa and Australia and with money left over go for any one else willing to sell out their good for nothing countries.
Then these Messrs could decide how to best put the piece of earth into overdrive and make everyone else rich so we could go exploring into space for other pieces of real estate. They were looking into snagging an aesteroid or two from near earth orbit and digging for oil or some such I heard.
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
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