commentary on my life?

[lagilman]

Almost everyone has a change jar, right? I have two. One has a bunch of quarters, dimes, and pennies in it (no nickels, interestingly enough). The other?

Two 1000 lire coins. A .20 franc coin. A Loonie. Two Cayman island nickels. Six Russian cents, whatever they're actually called. Two pounds 47 pence in various denominations. Four euros in coins, and a five euro bill. I used to have a couple of Israeli coins, too, but they seem to have gone walkabout.

I need some pocket change from South America next, I think...
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I ran across this quote while backtracking on something, and love it so much I just want to post it for folk to admire. And remember.

"Writing a science fiction story is fun, not work. ... the fun... lies in treating the whole thing as a game. ... the rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict with the facts as science currently understands them. For the author, the rule is to make as few such slips as he possibly can ... Certain exceptions are made [e.g., to allow travel faster than the speed of light], but fair play demands that all such matters be mentioned as early as possible in the story..."

(anyone able to identify the author?)
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No writing of note accomplished last night. I was pinned on the sofa by two felines, and forced to nap. And watch a Travel Network special on aquamarines. Oh, the trauma. Okay, I'm not a hug fan of aquamarines, per se. But they're still pretty rocks.
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Um. Today is Wednesday, right? The 20th? Of December? Just checking.

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[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

sounds like me- one has quarters, nickels, dimes, another pennies, and the third- pesos, lire, pounds, filipino money and more

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Me, too. The American money all goes into an electronic coin roller, and the foreign money (mostly Loonies, Euros from Ireland, and Pound notes and coins from last year's trip), but somewhere along the line I've acquired some German coinage as well. Not sure how I got them, because I've never been to Germany, but it's kinda cool. :)

Also, it's great research fodder if I ever need to know what kinds of coin were used in any timeframe I have the coinage for. :)

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

And yeah, today's the 20th. I've got nerve testing today to see if what I have is really the strangest version of carpal tunnel my neurologist has ever seen, or if it's something else entirely.

How sad is it that I've begun to remember dates by what medical tests I have?

[lagilman]

Loonies, euros and pounds make sense for an American. It's the other stuff that sneaks in that amuses...

(the Russian coins were probably left from my folks' trip there. The Cayman island coins were from the cruise last year. The lire I kept from my first [pre-euro] trip to Italy. The franc... when I was there, they were using the euro, I thought, so who knows. Anything else that turns up, I'm blaming on agamisu, who has one of the more... interesting coin jars I've ever seen.)

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

I do similar things with the coinage (though I keep mine in trays not jars).

I don't keep the foreign coins with any intention of using them (c'mon, I don't do that much international travel(). However, at a Hanukah party over the weekend, it occured to me that it would be a very cool thing to prepare little bags of Hanukah gelt made up of coins from around the world. I would have found that a truly magical gift as a child.

Loonies?

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Eh? What's a loony, other than a sllight crazy person or an affecctionate name for a Maine state water fowl?

Re: Loonies?

[lagilman]

Canadian dollar coin, which has a loon (a waterfowl) on it.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

I, in fact, have never had a change jar. Ever. In my life.

And yes, Wednesday the 20th of December. In 2006. *grin*

Re: Loonies?

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Ah! I learn so much from you all. *VBG*

[defcons-treklit.livejournal.com]

(anyone able to identify the author?)

Yes, I could identify the author, but only because I just read the wikipedia article on him after reading your reaction on my post over at kradical's lj.

[lagilman]

*heh* It's quoted elsewhere, but yeah, that was the version I lifted. I was tempted to post it in response (it seemed the sort of thing that would interest a Trek reader *grin*) but I thought it might be seen as overkill...

(Harry is still one of my all-time favorite SF writers. And he was a wonderful 'uman bean, too.)

[defcons-treklit.livejournal.com]

If the german coinage is in euros and not in DM, it's possible that you got in Ireland. I have Irish euros in my wallet regularly (though not as often as euros of some of the other euro states), so I guess there are a fair number of german euros floating around in Ireland, too.

[origamilady.livejournal.com]

Heh! *snerk* - I'll be going to South America in a few days. Im visiting some of my relatives in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas and New Years (Yay for New Years on the beach :):)), if ye'd really like some Brazilian Cruzados to add to that collection -I've got a ton to spare :)

Re: Loonies?

[autojim.livejournal.com]

There was some debate on a nickname when the Canadian 2-dollar coin debuted with... two loons on it. Several were kicked around, including my favorite, the "dubloony", before everyone seemed to settle on "twoony" (pronounced "TOO-ney"), probably because that's what some influential CBC commentator (or a scriptwriter for "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", "Royal Canadian Air Farce", and/or "Red Green") called it.

[vincam.livejournal.com]

I need some pocket change from South America next, I think...

I think I can handle that. Yup, here's a 500 peso note from Argentina and an indeterminate denomination coin from Panama. In addition to the usual pounds sterling, Euros, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand stuff, I've also got a pile of stuff from Ceylon, some Soviet rubles, an unidentified coin with asian characters and a square hole in the middle, a Jamaican dollar, 30 sen from Malaysia, a half-cent piece from Sierra Leone, some very, very old Francs, Mexican pesos, and deutschmarks.

I've been squirrelling away interesting coins since I was nine, and recently received the ones my father has been hoarding, so there are a lot of them. For American coins I've got a smattering of Susan B. Anthonys, a Sacajawea, a pile of Kennedy halfs, another pile of Eisenhower dollars, silver dimes and silver quarters, including several Mercury dimes and Liberty half dollars. A couple of buffalo nickles. And an Indian head somethingorother with a hole punched in it, from 1864. Dunno where that one came from; I expect it's been in the family for a very long time. None of these is in particularly collectible condition.

I also have a formal collection of the states quarters. All circulated, but in good condition.