99 cent stores, beware!

While meditating yesterday, I was suddenly distracted by an ingenius idea that is going to put you ALL out of business.

The 99 cent store as we know it is history.

Say hello to next stage of evolution: The 98 cent store.

Who the heck is gonna pay 99 cents when they can get the same damn thing for 98 cents? Hah! 99 cents is outrageous - and it must not stand I tell you.

The time has come for an intelligent alternative.

My 98 cent empire will sweep the nation, then the world, untouchable. Others will be too greedy or too cowardly to lower their price to 97 cents - for at least a quarter or two.

After that I'd just sell-off to the competition because who the hell wants to run a 96 cent store empire anyways.

I'd rather drive a disco-dancing fire-breathing Japanese robot or film building implosions.

"How long does a human live on Mars?", my wife asked.

Me: "The same, about 70 Earth years."
Her: "How long is that on Mars?"
Me: "How long is that on Earth?"
Her: "Huh?"
Me: "How long is it anywhere?"

It's so easy for us to believe that we know exactly how all of this works - probably because we desperately want to believe. It's pretty obvious, though, that we don't - we can't even move around in our own dimension without our systems quickly becoming nonsensical.

Go ahead, set your alarms, synchronize your watches, datestamp your blog entries...
...but don't get too caught-up in it, okay?
...it's just a model.

It's quite possible that everything is actually happening at once, and that time is just a funny idea we came-up with to help hunt for food. :)