{"id":624,"date":"2005-07-06T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2005-07-06T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T17:42:00","slug":"clearly-paul-allen-doesnt-have-enough-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/clearly-paul-allen-doesnt-have-enough-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly, Paul Allen Doesn&#8217;t Have Enough to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~cfarivar\/photos\/gossip\/20050706.moneybin.allen.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"7\"> I always wonder what it must be like to be worth <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_billionaires\">$21 billion<\/a>. I wonder what Paul Allen&#8217;s agenda must be like:<\/p>\n<p>8 am: Wake up. Dive into Duck Tales-style pool of coins for refreshing swim.<br \/>\n9 am: Take a refreshing shower, dry off with towel sewn from $100 bills.<br \/>\n10 am: Check email.<br \/>\n10:30 am: Bathroom break, use toilet paper made from $50 bills.<br \/>\n11:00 am: Ponder what museum should start next.<br \/>\n12:00 pm: Lunch, followed by an ice cold &#8217;95 Tattinger.<br \/>\n1:00 pm: Take the <i>Octopus<\/i> for a spin.<br \/>\n2:00 pm: Ponder taking the submarine out for a week long voyage to the Aleutians, to explore possible site for future space launch\/telescope sites.<br \/>\n4:00 pm: Return back to the mainland.<br \/>\n5:00 pm: Think about what sports team\/publication to buy next.<br \/>\n7:00 pm: Dinner<br \/>\n10:00 pm: Do Vulcan hand signal before bed. &#8220;Live Long, and Prosper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>&#8220;It will be used 24\/7 for searching for ET, for looking for extraterrestrial intelligence,&#8221; Dr Shostak said of the Allen Telescope Array being built at Hat Creek, 400km northeast of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, will also &#8220;piggyback&#8221; on the instrument, using it to study other &#8220;radio objects&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-million-dollar telescope &#8211; funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen &#8211; will comprise 350 antennas, each 8m long, spread over 1km, enabling SETI searchers to scan the skies hundreds of times faster than now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,15847967%255E29098,00.html\">CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE HEARD KIND<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wonder what it must be like to be worth $21 billion. I wonder what Paul Allen&#8217;s agenda must be like: 8 am: Wake up. Dive into Duck Tales-style pool of coins for refreshing swim. 9 am: Take a refreshing shower, dry off with towel sewn from $100 bills. 10 am: Check email. 10:30 am: Bathroom break, use toilet paper made from $50 bills. 11:00 am: Ponder what museum should start next. 12:00 pm: Lunch, followed by an ice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-gossip","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-a4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}