what would you do to indulge yourself? ....make the Blazer dancers perform nude? ....order a different escort every night? .....throw your clothes on the floor? .......have a dental hygenist floss for you? .......have cameras installed so you can spy on the help?
bang european supermodels every night. hell, any supermodel or hottie. take them to blazers game, just be a playboy in the most traditional sense of the world. fine restaurants, buy gadgets, no commitments, just a whole stable of the most beautiful women on earth.
Put myself as starting point guard. Then when I get the ball just throw it as hard as i can at players I don't like it. THen say suck it.
I would be very responsible and frugal, investing in new ventures that can make a positive impact on the world economically, medically and socially while still turning a profit. Just saying what I'd do ;-)
None of the above. But I'm not. He is. And I don't know if he does any of the above either - well, probably throw clothes on the floor. Isn't that a guy thing? For the rest... By the time you hit your 50s a different escort every night starts to pale. He can't "make" the Blazer dancers perform nude, by law. He may have spy cameras but I doubt if he monitors them himself. If anyone goes to the dentist the hygienist will floss for him/her - and frankly, it wouldn't hurt him to do that more, pardon my getting personal.
Have a kick ass car collection and drive the shit out of them. Have an insane house with lots of cool stuff including a sports bar with the biggest TV on the market and lots of beer on tap.
I would date a lot, but I (would) do that as long as I'm single, irrespective of having billions or not One thing I would consider: private space program. Man is going to the stars someday, and he is in a position to be more influential than any individual in the history of the world in making it happen. Hire engineers. Hire scientists. Buy equatorial property. Put people into space and further mankind's knowledge while, ideally, getting some juicy patents and such. Ed O.
Isn't Allen actually involved in this? I remember a few years ago reading that he had funded one of the entries to a private enterprise competition for a "passenger" vehicle that could reach space ("passenger" meaning carrying non-astronauts). I forget the name of that competition.
I think that he participated in the X Prize, yes. I'm not talking about millions of bucks, though. Or tens of millions. I'm talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. Billions. Robert Heinlein had a prominent character that did something similar. I think his name was DD Herriman, although it's been years and years since I've read Heinlein and I might be wrong. Ed O.
Ah, right, X Prize. That's the one. And yes, I see what you mean. A bit like a private enterprise NASA, eh? Though, on the scale of expense, even Allen can run out of cash.
That is absolutely true... it could turn into the greatest money pit ever for a single person. I just see it as a unique opportunity that no one has really taken a shot at yet. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are going to do some remarkable and very good things with their foundations, and I salute them for their efforts. I just think that if I were Paul Allen, I'd go in a slightly different direction. "Up", I guess. Ed O.
