Artificial Luck
Sep. 27th, 2006 11:55 am( Read more... )
* 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
* 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