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  1. HudsonHawk

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Boy not the ones we get around here. They are sweet and wonderful.
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    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    I read a funny story once about Drew Bledsoe when he got his first rookie signing bonus with the Patriots. He deposited the whole thing in his regular old savings account at his hometown bank in Yakima, Washington. He said the first night he called the automated bank line over and over just to...
  3. HudsonHawk

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Hadn't heard about Irvin. So sorry, he was a true gentleman ballplayer. Interesting note about Irvin...he was the first choice of just about everyone to break the color barrier in baseball. Branch Rickey tried to sign him, but the Eagles wanted compensation from the Dodgers for losing him...
  4. HudsonHawk

    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    Read an interesting blurb from Mark Cuban, billionaire, on his advice for the winner. A couple of interesting points: 1. If you're not happy now, you won't be happy when you win the money. However, if you're happy now, you're going to be REALLY happy when you win the money. Money doesn't...
  5. HudsonHawk

    Incandescent lovers, rejoice.

    I didn't know you could get traffic bulbs in that low of wattage. I figured they were all 150W or so. But yeah, they last like 10x as long as regular incandescent bulbs, though they're 10x as expensive. But when it's such a pain to change them, it's definitely a bargain. They also have...
  7. HudsonHawk

    Incandescent lovers, rejoice.

    As the song goes...I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.
  8. HudsonHawk

    Incandescent lovers, rejoice.

    LED lights are awesome. They're small, efficient, they don't get hot like incandescent bulbs, and you can get any color, including "warm glow", from the same bulb. The only problem is that they're difficult to dim with existing switches.
  9. HudsonHawk

    Blade Runner - The Final Cut

    Wake up...time to die!
  10. HudsonHawk

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Thanks guys.
  11. HudsonHawk

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    It's not vintage or anything, it's new. But my wife picked it out, and I like it. Here ya go...
  13. HudsonHawk

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Wearing my new Stratoliner I got from Santa, for the first time I might add.
  14. HudsonHawk

    Blade Runner - The Final Cut

    So the local theater is showing Blade Runner - The Final Cut tomorrow night. I'm getting together with my old college buddies to see it and have a few pops at the local pub afterward. I couldn't care less about any Star Wars related, but I'm getting totally geeked up about this. If only you...
  15. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The bathrooms in my house are unisex, though when I win that $1.3 billion, my man cave will have a "men's room", complete with a standup urinal.
  16. HudsonHawk

    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    Done deal.
  17. HudsonHawk

    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    I gotta warn you...if I win, I'm gonna look you up and you're going to take me to wherever it is that slice of pizza in your avatar is from. To hell with unlimited mozzarella sticks, I'm gonna make myself sick on NYC pizza.
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    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    A number of years ago, my dad got five of the six numbers in the Florida lottery. Had he gotten all six, he'd have won about $20 million, I think, but alas, it was only like $12,000. After taxes and the like, he took home about $8,000, and gave us three young'uns $1,000 each. I bought new...
  20. HudsonHawk

    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    Texas, where I live, is one of the states that require disclosure. However, the winner doesn't have to be an individual, and one could set up a trust and anonymously donate the winnings to the trust. Only the trust's name is made public. I'm pretty sure that's what I'd do.
  21. HudsonHawk

    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    This is true...lots of stories about money making people miserable. However, getting back to just how much $1.3 billion is...you hear stories about someone who won say $10 million, and blew through it in five years. At that rate, it would take you 650 years to spend $1.3 billion. You'd have...
  22. HudsonHawk

    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    Actually, if you had $1.3 billion, you could only give 300 million people $4.33. To give everyone $4,330,000, you'd have to have $1.3 quadrillion in the bank. But $1.3 billion is still an obscene amount of money.
  23. HudsonHawk

    Powerball up to 1 billion - what tools would you buy?

    I'd get my tractor fixed. It's been under a tarp for a year now. Mrs. Hawk says I could get a new barn too. Both of those would be awesome. Then I'd go fishing. For a long time.

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