Much of the time I sit around my house, and falsely reminisce about what it must have been like to have lived in such-and-such-time and in such-and-such-place and how it inevitably must have been better than present circumstances; not that much different than your average creatively-minded type who too often is prone to attaching themselves to ideas of velleity. That type of thinking is utterly useless, of course. I probably would have been sitting around my house, drinking coffee, and bitching to no one in particular that everything is sub-par as usual and that I should have been born in a different decade, because then only then would I have become a fabulously sought-after, legs-up-to-here cabaret dancer, a business mogul with my hands running five megaevil corporations and seven vacation houses on nine private islands, or an independently wealthy eccentric who likes to fly helicopters around public places with a megaphone in one hand and a bottle of cheap liquor in the other screaming to innocent passersby that I am indeed god himself. Yes, what fun all that would have been - especially with a highly trained chimpanzee named Edward by my side.
However, nothing quite makes for wistful days at lame, soul-sucking jobs like daydreaming about what it would have been like to start a successful dotcom. Suck.com, a recent favorite of mine (yeah, yeah, I know it hasn't been updated since 2001), is prime material for those "what could have been if I had had the chance to be the successful Arnold Rimmer!" moments.
This article is dated by now, as well, but I don't care.
Enjoy.
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