How much in the jar?


How much in the jar?
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
This is about 15 years of change. Do you know how much is in there? Care to take a guess?

It’s a pickle jar 10″ tall and 6″ diameter. Nothing but silver should be in there (hopefully no pennies). The whole shebang weighs 40 lbs. I’ve been to several foreign countries in those years. Canadian loonies sometimes get mixed up as US coins.

How much do you think is in their? What foreign coins may be mixed in there? Any pennies?

Post your guess in comments.

Quote of the Day [3.28.09]

It’s a good thing that I’m not a star
You don’t know how lucky you are
Though my record may say it
No one will play it
Sad songs and waltzes aren’t selling this year

Willie Nelson, “Sad Song and Waltzes”

Quote of the Day [3.27.09]

I found an island in your arms
A country in your eyes

Arms that chain
Eyes that lied

The Doors, “Break on through (to the other side)”

Link of the Day [3.27.09]

Rereading the seven volumes of Strawberry 100% (Ichigo 100%) in anticipation for next one supposedly due in April. I read at least two chapters a day, and I don’t get more than a few panels before Junpei does something stupid at which I’m screaming at him. Or he doesn’t make a move at which I’m groaning about the whole enterprise. Just stupidity on his part.

I’ve peeked at the ending and read the wikipedia entry so I know who he’s ends up with. That’s eleven volumes away though, but I can’t help but wonder WTF is up with this guy.

All three girls dig him. And the other girls in the book dig him too. WTF just pick one of these girls. You know which one. But they are all so cute. Satsuki? She really, really, really likes you. Aya? She’s too shy to express her feelings. Yui? Isn’t she like your a little sister to you? Tsukasa? She’s not your girlfriend no longer.

YARRGH! You make me crazy, Junpei.

http://comics-news.shueisha.co.jp/common/ichigo/

For a good laugh in these tough times

http://www.gop.gov/solutions/budget/road-to-recovery-finalRead this document and you'll laugh out loud numerous times. You'll see
newspeak in action. Here's a few choice nuggets."Those who like the health insurance they have now likely will not be
able to keep it because their employers will stop providing coverage."
(pg 6)"Republicans believe that the tax code should not penalize savings and
thrift, especially in a period of economic
turmoil. Our plan would lower the capital gains tax and loosen
restrictions on various savings vehicles in order for individuals to
catch up and replace losses from the market." (pg 10)"Americans realize that the future of energy is in alternative and
renewable sources. In order to promote the development of renewable and
alternative energy, Republicans support promoting the leasing of federal
lands which contain alternative energy such as oil shale." (pg 13)"Democrats assume that the free-market system has failed and that a more
robust federal government must now rescue the nation. The American
people reject that notion and know, as Republicans do, that government
has failed and that this financial crisis is the result of decades of
misguided government policies that interfered with the free-market." (pg
15)"The government's interventions to date have generated market
uncertainty and an aversion to private lending and investment. The
government's strategy needs to minimize government interference in the
management of companies and provide a clear exit strategy." (pg 16)
Are these guys serious? This is the same stuff as the last 8 years!
Someone should go to every Republican and kick them in the crotch, both
male and female, for offering these same tired ideas.

Quote of the Day [3.26.09]

“I can’t let you in cause you’re old as fuck. For this club, you know, not for the earth.”

Doorman (Craig Robinson), “Knocked Up”