So call me crazy, but it’s kinda strange to look over at the next table in the cafeteria to see somebody worth over 4 billion dollars. With a b. I think i’ve got an ok grasp of the concept of a thousand dollars (a month’s budget), ten thousand dollars is starting to push it (a car, i guess), a hundred thousand is into the category of “really big number”, but i think that someday i’ll understand what that amount of money is. Jeff Bezos gains and loses orders of magnitude more in a day depending on the tick of AMZN on some stock exchange. According to finance.yahoo Jeff owns a little over 100 million shares of amazon (a little over = 1,289,966 so at the current market value of $37.19 means there’s a rounding error of $47,973,835.54) so since the stock price has risen 68 cents today, his net worth increased by 68 million dollars plus some change. Amounts of money that my brain doesn’t fully grasp in any meaningful way are practically lost in the noise of his net worth. I wonder what that’s like.
Lunch
Cell phone minutes
I basically have more cell phone minutes than i know what to do with (something like 700 anytime between now and the 22nd). I’m about to become a permanent resident on the long distance lines from Seattle to Texas and Sacramento, so if you want to be on the other end, please indicate this to me in any way you feel is appropriate. See the links at the top of this page. If you’re one of those 4 people living at 5246 and you want to talk to me just dial, wait for the ring and then hang up, when i see the missed call i’ll hit y’all back up so you don’t get charged long distance.
In other news, i think i may have accidentally exploited an edge case in T-mobile’s rather poorly designed website and gotten my phone for free. I opted to do their new phone every 12 months deal and then like 10 minutes later upgraded my plan, so i authorized back to back contract extensions. This was at the beginning of the summer and the bill for the new phone still hasn’t shown up anywhere.