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  Maths of Life

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Workaholic On The Way To The Shower

You Can't Please Everyone

Some of life's great lessons, that we keep doing wrong most of our lives, are talked about here.   Like, don't ask your barber if you need a haircut.  Yet, we go without question to the Orthodontist to see if we need a crown, and, guess what, we do.   Here's some more good tips.

COWBOY'S GUIDE TO LIFE
*Don't squat with your spurs on.
*Don't interfere with something that ain't botherin' you none.
*Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
*The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm. The colder it gets, the harder it is to swaller.
*If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
*If it don't seem like it's worth the effort, it probably ain't.
*It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
*The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you shave his face in the mirror every morning.
*Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
*If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
*Don't worry about bitin' off more'n you can chew; your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger'n you think.
*Always drink upstream from the herd.
*Generally, you ain't learnin' nothin' when your mouth's a jawin'
*Tellin' a man to git lost and makin' him do it are two entirely different propositions.
*If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there with ya.
*Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
*When you give a personal lesson in meanness to a critter or to a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
*When you're throwin' your weight around, be ready to have it thrown around by somebody else.
*Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back.

BILL's BILLS
Bill Gates has had his personal net worth soar over 40 billion dollars. (Much more now, but the math was done when he was "only" worth $40 billion.
He certainly knows how to make money. Consider that he made this money in the 22 years or so since Microsoft
was founded in 1975.  If you presume that he has worked 14 hours a day on every business day of the year since then, that means he's been making money at a staggering half-million dollars per hour, *around $150 per second.*
Which means that if, on his way into the office, should he see or drop a $500 bill on the ground, it's just not worth his time to bend over and pick it up. He would make more just heading off to work.
It's perhaps more disturbing to look at the slope of his appreciation this year.  From January to July he's gained some $16 Billion, meaning that at the rate he's going, if he sees a $10,000 bill, he's just as well to pass it by.
If it's a pile of cash he has to count, it's even worse. At $2,500 per second so far this year, they would have to be
thousand-dollar Bills -- and he would need to have a quick hand -- to avoid him losing the money in wasted time while he's counting them.  Counting $500 bills would be very unprofitable.

The "Too-small-a-bill-for-Bill" index has gone up quite a bit over the years. When Microsoft went public in 1986, the new multimillionaire only had to leave behind $5 bills. *Bill Gates Dollars*

Another way to examine this sort of wealth is to compare it to yours. Consider the average American of reasonable but modest wealth.  Perhaps she has a net worth of $100,000.
Mr. Gates' worth is 400,000 times larger.  Which means that if something costs $100,000 to her, to Bill it's as though it costs 25 cents.  You can work out the right multiplier for  your own net worth.
So for example, you might think a new Lambourghini Diablo would cost $250,000, but in Bill Gates dollars that's *63 cents*.
That fully loaded, multimedia active matrix 233 MHZ laptop with the 1024x768 screen you've been drooling after?  *A penny*.
A nice home in a rich town like Palo Alto, California? *Two dollars*.
You might spend $100 on tickets, food and parking to take your family to see an NHL hockey game.  Bill, on the other hand could buy the team for *100 Bill-bills*.
You might buy a plane ticket on a Boeing 747 for $1200 at full-fare coach. In Bill-bills, Mr.  Gates could buy three 747s*.  One for him, one for Melinda and one for young Jennifer Katherine...