Reach the stars, give them all to you

I often think about the lyrics to the cher song, "If I could turn back time" I'll get the the time turning part later (maybe) what I'd like to touch on now is the "If I could reach the stars, I'd give them all to you"
Couple a points on that;
1) There's no way anyone with a billion lifetimes could ever visit all the stars so whats the point of giving them all to you?
2) If you wanted to sell the resources for all the stars, you don't need them all to fulfill all the needs of a few worlds, so still only a few would suffice.
3) I think it's more romantic to give a select few stars that had some nice attributes that make them unique and a special gift. Like flowers, if I gave all the flowers in the world to someone they might initially be happy until they realized that all the weddings and funerals that happen any were around that time would be flowerless. A lot of the flowers would go to waste and not even be seen because of the massive pile of flowers that I just gave...
4) What would giving a star be like? And if you could reach them do you mean like a little twinkle in the star and just pick it out like a diamond? Well that's just ridiculous, and any sort of astrological movement that isn't in the normal scheme of things could have world ending ramifications (as I'm sure some of the readers already thought of an wanted this to be #1 on the list) Well I figured she also might have meant that reaching the stars by space ship, plan a flag and declare it the property of whomever she wanted to give it to. That method has so many problems I could write another blog post on it! (Yeah that many, a whole blog post, wow!)
5) It's a little selfish to want ALL the stars. How many stars can one person really use an appreciate. it's not like there's a shortage of them, it's more like, "Really? you need a trillion?"

So in conclusion I think the song sounds great and we can all enjoy it on a superficial level, and I'd like to say that 5-15 stars of varying sizes is plenty of stars for one person, any more than that and you better be a star collector. Oh and for the love of God no moving stars!

*The north star is already owned by NATO so don't even try to get that one.
** The big dipper is owned by J.P. Getty.
*** Orion's belt is owned by some Arab sheik in Dubai, but just the belt.
****Funny thing they didn't acquire these stars b/c they are rich but b/c they had the foresight to claim them when Cher was handing them out.

loopholes in the genie wish system

It occurred to me today that there might be a loophole in the genie wish system, that one of you out there could exploit. Should the time come that you find a genie lamp and get three wishes you'll be glad you read this. Hopefully you don't find one of those genies that only give you one wish, LAME! right? One wish, and you know you can't wish for more wishes, not with those cheap genies... actually I think the "wish for more wishes" loophole has long been fixed. There's no way they'd fall for that one anymore, my guess is if you'd wish for more wishes they'd give you one more wish (meaning they'd just replace the wish you used to make that wish) ANYWAY none of that has to do with the loophole in the system, all that is just setting up the ground work of mutual understanding having to do with the genie system in general.
So lets say you wish for a car and a pot of gold. 2 wishes right? yeah I agree. But what if you wish for a car with a pot of gold inside? AH? One wish! What? you disagree? Ok what if I wishes for a car with big tires? you can agree that's one wish, right? sure. Well then there has to be a gray area of wishes. I want you to get the most out of your wishes. BTW don't wish for a pot of gold in a car, gold is too heavy and would probably ruin the car. So you should be able to combine wishes into one wish, that's the loophole! I wish for a top of the line 7 series BMW with a trunk filled with (shares of apple stock)($100 bills)(diamonds). If you're really smart wish for something like 10 prototypes of a safe cold fusion reactor with the plans on top, BOOM you're soon to be the richest person ever.*1

So wishing advice, be careful what you wish for. You don't know this genie from Adam, you don't know if he's the kind of genie that tries to twist what you said into something horrible.*2 Like I wish for a Ferrari, you get a toy Ferrari or whatever. You wish for a ton of money, the money appears over your head and falls on you breaking your neck.(forcing you to use another wish to fix that) things like that. Wait on the wishing, get to know the genie, there's no rush.

Wish for something that keeps on giving. for example "I wish every time I reach into wallet theres a $500 in cash." Now a tricky genie will just withdraw that money from your account... annoying waste of a wish. See get to know the genie. A lot fo people in casual conversation make wishes, so watch yourself while getting to know your genie. If you say in passing you wish you didn't have to go into work today... doh wasted wish. Reading minds, telekinesis, invisibility, all good, still think it through. A wish of reading mind that uncontrollable would be horrible, constant noise of thoughts.

Don't wish for world peace, I could write a book on why that's a bad idea. Lets sum it up as don't wish for world changes, it's too broad, don't put that kind of power into the hands of a genie. Any world change requires millions if not billions of desisinos made in order for it to happen.

Last tip, Avoid wishes pertaining to time traveling. Messing with time is very hard to undo, remember chaos theory, the butterfly flaps it's wings and kicks up pollen that makes a buffalo sneeze causing a stampede, causing a storm... of course that's exaggerated a lot but still the idea is valid. Every change you make in history WILL have unimaginable consequences.

*1 unless you are killed by big oil companies, or some other ubber rich business that you will make obsolete.
*2 "But Aladdin's genie was wonderful!" Don't make me slap you! That's a movie, and it's not real.