Thrice

Yesterday was fun.

I was thrice accused of not being a cycling person and was glad I had a book. I met Amerys at science park lunch, but got there before anyone else, and lounged reading in the science park bar, and confused them by not leaving my bike outside, it having been a nice day and having strolled, reading, from work thence.

I met some tolkien people for an innmoot at the carlton, which was a bit quiet, and my had impugned my masculinity, again, and my cylingity, again (for carrying a tote bag full of Vorkosigan).

Then I stopped at Alex's on the way back, with board games with LASERs and with GRAVITY. And became embroiled in games of magic, wherein he drew large numbers of minute creatures designed to have synergistic effects, and I drew Ink-Treader Nephilim, designed to do REALLY INSANE THINGS AND PUNS, but lacking any other combo both beat the other to death with them instead.

OK, that wasn't anything to do with bikes or books. The first paragraph sounded better like that :)

Artificial Luck

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* How can you most entertainingly abuse this?

Help me out here, guys, I don't actually seem to have many ideas.

You can wager unconsionable amounts of money, or at unconscionable odds. Either buy a few lottery tickets, or borrow and bet $lots at short odds a couple of times.

You can take day to day risks. Walk through the bad part of town. Teela Brown apparently even never grazed her leg on a cupboard door.

How far does it stretch? What are the chances of all molecules in air/water going upward at the same time and supporting you? For how long?

Introduce chance to things as much as possible. Maybe going into a bookie and betting that they'll irrigate the sahara wouldn't work, because there's too much momentum behind the status quo for it to just happen. But talking to people with plans and picking the right one, and picking the right person to fund it, etc. could be done.

Little details. Never bother remembering local phone numbers, just dial, it's only a million to one. If it can work once as the climax of a book, it can happen every time, right?

Go on, what else