So far I've found $23 in singles from my last trip to the US in 2003, a stack of CDs I was sure I'd lost, notes and recordings from an old Open University Course, and rising damp.
I'm pleased about the CDs and the OU course.
you are the media you consume.
I can't even remember most of the trip. I was only in Noo Yawk for about 18 hours - long enough to (hypothetically) buy some lenses at B&H, do some (not so hypothetical) sightseeing and catch the flight home.
The magic of UK pricing meant that it was cheaper to buy items in Noo Yawk and pay for a flight than to buy them here - allegedly SOP for the professionals back then, but maybe not so much now.
I'll trade you the singles and a pint for one of my 20 quid notes I have left over from that trip...
The magic of UK pricing
I remember being at a party with a US writer/publisher and after some discussion where he was absolutely amazed at the policies of the UK distributors. when he returned to the Americas, he from that point insisted on printing a UK price on the cover of all of the work he was publishing.
Turns out the distributor was buying at US wholesale prices, the publisher was paying for the shipping to the UK and the distributor was using a $1 = £1 price conversion so that they made a truly excessive ammount from each publication. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
I've found $23 in singles
The Law of Fives strikes again.
Alas, the archetypal synchronicity has been broken by finding another $1.
We must be doing something wrong these days, because the range of topics in the diaries has been shrinking. Are we discouraging people from writing about non-compliant stuff? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I think the site has also take a slightly ... er, negative turn. That's my own personal opinion and no one has to share it. But a lot of the diaries are unbelievably antagonistic and nihilistic and obsessed with bad news and horrible events and blame. So much blaming. Even bullying. That's just my perspective. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Are we discouraging people from writing about non-compliant stuff?
I don't write anything else....
...not that anyone reads most of 'em... :-) "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
