Alarm wakes you up at 6:30 AM, the date on the calendar is May 15, 2004. What do you do?

I would get started on some tech startups: a social media network based on short messages, one based on visual pictures on a bulletin board interface, one based on camera phone photos with crappy filters, and finally one based on sending self destroying images to friends capitalizing on youth and the sexting phenomenon. I would make steady bets on all major sporting events for 10 years but keep it on the DL by having proxy agents and llcs. I would make major investment moves in anticipation of financial events of the late first decade of the 21st century.

Oooh oooh! I have another one. I'd start a cult/church in which me, the prophetic leader, would make very specific and accurate predictions. As the space/time continuum would begin to shift, my predictions would become more and more obtuse. It wouldn't matter at that point, however, as my growing number of fanatics would continue to support me and idolize me until I disappeared to some beautiful Mediterranean island with all the money and only the most beautiful of my devout followers.

Avoid injury for the fall and run a smarter race at footlocker than I did originally, also commit to a different school and not waste years of my eligibility on over training and over racing be smart and try to prolong my running career much farther than I did.

If we're talking about making a buck, investing is too slow I'd head directly to the sports books. I believe there were three EZ money bets at long odds from 2004 that give you a nice bankroll for the stock market.

You'd arrive just in time for the NBA Finals. Max out a HELOC and lay it all on the Pistons to win in 5 games if it's Pistons/Lakers.

This was also an Olympic year. If it's the Iverson/Marbury led men's basketball team, and team USA looks shaky, then definitely bet against team USA outright in the semifinal.

Then you take the motherlode. Wait until the Red Sox go down 3-0 to the Yankees and bet everything on the Sox to win the world series. Oh man, those odds must've been sweet.

Invest in Apple and Google stock with the winnings. Depending on how long one can short a stock, then maybe you short Blockbuster or Bear Stearns as well.

Same thing I do basically every day including 5/15/2004. Go surfing. Wouldn't change a thing.

The alarm would have been more like 4 am. I'd do what I did - get my ass out to the mountains for 30 miles, altitude and a lot of vertical. Either a Mt. Baldy double or Vincent Gap to Kratka Ridge and back.

Cancel the friggin' wedding.

First, I read an article in the 80's from Runners World regarding sleep, that if you need an alarm clock to wake you, then you are not getting enough sleep. Ever since then I have never ever used an alarm clock. If I need to take an early flight and get up at 3, I get up around 3. It took me several months, but eventually, I became my own alarm clock. I go to bed when I'm tired. It might be at 8:45 or 10:00. It all depends on how the day went. If I did a track workout in the sun and ran 3 or 4 miles warm and cool, and then a beer (or two) with dinner, I'll be down for the count early, and won't fight it.

I have not slept until 6:30 on weekdays in several years. Weekends I sleep until 7 or maybe 8 if my wife and I are out late.

Typically I'm up before 5 on weekdays and done walking the dog by 6:10 or so, and done running a short morning run by 6:45 or so and out the door by 7, maybe 7:20

I can't remember that far back.

I'd pull out, grab a shower, and leave her apartment never to return.

APPL + GMCR until 2011, then buy as much bitcoin as I can when it was about 0.20$. Wait til ~Decembet 2013, sell it for 900ish$ each. Retire at 26.

Already Here wrote:

Dan the Fish wrote:

Found LetsRun, wait till this question is asked, go back to 1993, warn Kurt Cobain, kill Justin Bieber as he's born, and save the future.

Dumb, dumb, dumb!!!

Letsrun was in its heyday in 2004.

Yeah, it kept getting bigger until about 2007 then started declining.

I think flotrack and runnerspace had something to do with it.

Also, considering May 15 2004 was my graduation day, graduate I suppose.

Quickly pull out of your mom and prevent this thread from being started.

Realize you are hurdling towards the ring at 90% light, start your vids, setup tracking, high five, stream live to Ceres, mars, and Ganymede, and not worry any bit about deceleration.

coitus interruptus wrote:

Quickly pull out of your mom and prevent this thread from being started.

Oooooooh epic buuuuurrrrrrrnnnnnnnn

I mean, seriously! wrote:

What do you do?

This is what you do if you are J. Findley:

May 15, 2004 "The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 224036583 1, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort."

Case Close!!

BreakitDown wrote:

APPL + GMCR until 2011, then buy as much bitcoin as I can when it was about 0.20$. Wait til ~Decembet 2013, sell it for 900ish$ each. Retire at 26.

Bitcoin is the right answer. Even the APPL growth is nothing compared to bitcoin growth. $1000 turns into an easy $4.5 million in just 2 years.

I remember spending hours reading about bitcoin in college in 2011 and was about to buy 100 bitcoins when they were about $1 a piece but decided at the last minute not to because there were too few things you could buy with them (the market was only some random gift cards to place like best buy)...Easily the biggest regret of my life.

The best answer was buying aapl. If you had bought aapl leaps, long tem call options and kept rolling them forward, and side stepped the drop from 700 to 380, you could have gotten over 1000 times your investment. No shit.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=AAPL&p=D&st=2004-05-15&en=today&id=p85350589123

Just buy and hold got you 100x. So 500 k back then, that could have become 500 mill and more which you know, is enough

Register to vote in Florida and then wait 5.5 months to do so.