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Yesterday some food and cold medicine came to S$8.70; I offered a ten and the cashier asked if I had exact change (I often do). I didn't, but I had a 20-cent piece, and got back a dollar coin and a 50-cent piece. Today some food came to $9.30; I paid with a ten and yesterday's 50-cent piece, and got back a dollar coin and a 20-cent piece. I feel like I'm not making any progress.
With digital cable came Animax, an all-anime channel. What's on it? The rough schedule:
- Cute Kids with Magic Tokens Have Fun Doing Stuff For Their Friends, a 65-episode series.
- Pleasant Young Adult Guy Suffers Rather Than Admit Crush On Interested Young Woman, episode 4 of 846.
- In Ruined Far Future Earth Annoying Teens Squabble, 13 episodes.
- Incredibly Sexy Android Women and the Clueless Men Bumbling Around Them, second series.
- Obnoxious Young Adult Guy Becomes Less Insufferable For Devotedly Interested Young Woman, episode 7 of 26.
- Pro Soccer Player Coaches Kids' League Team, 32 episodes.
- In Ruined Far Future Earth Mystical Beings Stop By, 39 episodes.
- Cute Kids Guide Animals/Robots/Robot Animals/Others Through Fights To Save World, fifth series.
- Can These Teens Stop Arguing And Save The World? 52 episodes.
- Genial Young Adult Guy And Android Woman Unaware She's Key To The Whole World: A Romance, 13 episodes.
- Obnoxious Buxom Women On Same Future ``Team'' Endlessly Squabble, third series.
- Eight-Year-Old Girl Lives Pleasant Fantasy With Help From Strange Mystical Friend, 26 episodes.
I really like the last as Twin Spica, about a girl in Space Academy. The opening includes her looking over a Gemini capsule.
Trivia: Every even integer larger than 46 is the sum of two abundant numbers. Source: Lure of the Integers, Joe Roberts.
Currently Reading: The Great Science Fiction Stories 6: 1948, Edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H Greenberg.
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Date: 2005-03-16 10:41 am (UTC)Inadaquate.
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Date: 2005-03-16 10:50 am (UTC)Nope, the only giant robots hitting one another that I've seen have been suits worn by the squabbling teens, or else are taking the lead of the cute kids. None of them have been in it for themselves.
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Date: 2005-03-16 02:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 03:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 04:41 pm (UTC)The toys are still all over the place. Can't swing a Tomy Omnibot in the hobby shop without hitting a stack of Gundams.
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Date: 2005-03-16 04:40 pm (UTC)There doesn't seem to be so much of it as there used to be, although that could easily be selection bias. Maybe I got Animax just after they finished The Transformers Robotech Voltron G-Force Super Team Month.
But more often the giant robots seem to be teamed up with teenage pilots who have to put aside their petty bickering to stop a team of rogue antimatter comets from blowing up the sun or something, and at that can't seem to quite make their mind up about it.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 12:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 01:22 pm (UTC)Thanks, though I was startled to see how many soccer shows there were.
I realize now I forgot to include a classification for Cyborg Kurochan, but this was only a rough guide.
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Date: 2005-03-16 01:55 pm (UTC)Pleasant Young Adult Guy Suffers Rather Than Admit Crush On Interested Young Woman, episode 4 of 846.
Rumiko Takahashi must be involed with this show.
And I wish I had Animax, now. I've got Sarge's, and am still working through Hyper Police slowly, as well as.. uhm.. Wedding Peach.
--Chiaroscuro
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 02:35 pm (UTC)I'd really just as soon see the penny abolished, but I don't expect that to happen.
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Date: 2005-03-16 04:49 pm (UTC)The Singapore penny was abolished a couple years ago, and quite successfully, although it quickly turned the nickel (well, the 5-cent piece) into the fruit fly of the change world. That's maybe a bit worse than in the US, since there's only the single goods-and-service tax, so prices can be set to be exactly on the dollar or half-dollar, or if someone goes for just-under pricing to end in 90 cents (or, often, 88 cents and round down the difference).
I'm a fine one for getting rid of the small change -- it's really easy to pick apart by feel -- although my problem is holding on to dollar coins. That's partly practical; my favorite picks in the vending machines around my building are all one dollar, thus dollar coins are most useful for when I'm there late, after the drinks stand closes. But I'm rarely there so late anymore, and don't use the dollar coins as fast as I hoard them, so ...
There are now 24 dollar coins on the table by the door.
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Date: 2005-03-16 04:45 pm (UTC)Actually the interminable genial romantic comedy has a thousand authors, from the looks of things. Based on the pop culture I'd have to speculate that it's amazing Japan has a population left, because it takes about 25 years of flirting before two perfectly well-matched people will even consider dating, much less move into courting or marriage, and I haven't seen anyone get to raising children yet, unless the children are delivered by flying saucer from another planet (I'm not making this show up).
Quipping aside, I do like the channel, though more for the romantic comedy or for the shows about cute kids. That probably won't surprise anyone who knows me.
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Date: 2005-03-19 04:34 pm (UTC)--Chiaroscuro
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Date: 2005-03-20 05:22 am (UTC)But Seinfeld wasn't a romantic comedy. And Dave and Maddie really took less than a season to start dating, or something, and maybe two to get married; Sam and Diane started dating -- they gave us some payoff, at least -- by the end of the first season, and we had permutations of their relationship the whole first five years.
Still in all cases there's a point where there's just been enough of guy accidentally letting slip that it has occasionally crossed his mind that it would potentially be a pleasant event if perhaps she were to care to go with him on a date, and she giggles and nods, and then he panics and jumps up the telephone pole and apologizes and says such a thing was never on his mind and then hides underneath the mattress cursing his foolishness. You want them to just get on with it already.
Yes but,
Date: 2005-03-17 03:53 am (UTC)We have a soda fund for the office, 50 can sodas. Every so often the change gets counted up and I purchase the new state quarters (in lots from $20-50) as I figure this saves me from actually having to go out and hunt them down.
FYI - your usual 35mm kodak film canister will hold about $7 in quarters. Its a pity I switched to digital so soon, now I'm running out of film cans!
Re: Yes but,
Date: 2005-03-17 09:43 am (UTC)You buy the quarters on purpose? I'd always thought some of the fun was in running into them by accident. Granted my collection's really flopped since I don't get that much US change anymore, but still, it seems more harmonious to just let the collection come or not.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 06:19 pm (UTC)The drawer's about six inches deep now. I also have a large KFC-style bucket (only plastic) full about 3/4 with the change that accumulated in my last apartment.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-17 09:45 am (UTC)That ... is starting to get into Scrooge McDuck's Money Vault territory, actually. At least for mice.
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Date: 2005-03-17 04:10 pm (UTC)http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/chars/moneybin.html
Of course, I could of dropped a decimal place somewhere.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-17 05:10 pm (UTC)Hmm, well, it's a good question. I don't know how much by volume change there is in the world anyway ...
I can't help but note that according to one of the Disney Public Information shorts of the 60s, explaining the importance of investment in making the economy work, the Money Bin consists purely of Scrooge McDuck's petty cash; he's not so foolish as to leave his real money laying about where it's not doing anything productive.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-18 02:56 am (UTC)The problem occurred to me after stumbling across The MegaPenny Project (http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/). According to the conversion table an acre is 4047 square meters, which presumably would make a "cubic acre" about 257,500 cubic yards. (Doing some gross rounding, here.) Which of course makes the total capacity of the Money Bin about 772,000 cubic yards. According to the US Mint there are only about 80,000 cubic yards of pennies in circulation, so that only gets you 1/10th full. Even if we optimistically assume that there are as many of each other kind of coin in circulation, and granting that they're larger... my gut tells me we don't make it.
Just as an aside, of course, it's worth noting the Money Bin is about 70% the size of the Empire State Building. Or a nice even half as large as the Sears Tower. The implications of having that much in petty cash are simply mind-boggling.
And yeah, I get really bored sometimes.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-18 10:18 am (UTC)Well now you've got me wondering about the ideal and the most probable density distributions of coins, particularly when they're of different sizes and materials. This could be a great way to procrastinate next time I'm almost caught up. That's some pretty impressive piles of pennies, really.
Still, the whole bin does still fit within the Vehicle Assembly Building, so it isn't all that much cash.