- Training for 2012: Wuggling
- ABC tune grabber/converter
- A trip to Lancaster
- a new media playing machine
- Don't turn Tizen into WebOS
- making some chili sauce
- grumpy kid
- beer network improvement
- Ripping my DVD collection
- ruby script to search files in a directory for a string
- Pacific Pinball Museum Mission
- A Tale of Two Mugs
- shishi odoshi prototype
- file downloader in Node.js that handles redirects
- Travelling Far Part II
- python shell-fm web interface
- not quite a letter to cherrypal
- Audio playing class in Ruby with Gstreamer
- A quick fix
- my resized images using Ruby and Imagemagick
- one pound of coffee
- noise-canceling headphones that actually work
- updating my dynamic IP DNS information with Ruby
- Hello World in Ruby
- Bacon Apple Cider
- clawhammer sudo modprobe
- a web.py introduction
- The Skillet
- banjer strap on the cheap
- The Letter to Dell
- Linux Outlaws episode 170
- Not the 2010 Petaluma Whiskerino
- Monte Rio
- a new power switch
- the coffee cup review
- seriously, that thing is garbage
- keeping a GTK TextView cursor in view
- A tale of three sticker
- minimize/close to system tray in Python GTK
- A markdown editor/viewer in Python
- Red Phone Mumble Test
- Saturday Sassafrass
- A Friday Frolic
- Toshiba laptop review
- Google no longer uses Microsoft
- regarding Heybuddy and python stuff
- I'm calling you!
- heybuddy identi.ca client
- making a change holder thing
- Did I win? Yes and No.
- photograph sticker
- share this on facebook
- the damn computer died
- kilt alteration
- audcast streamer in vala with gstreamer, gtk and webkit
- The Mullet Adventure
- A Letter to the California State Legislature
- will dogfooding the frenzy leave me bitter?
- basic sitemap file maker in Python
- rock and rolling down the street
- Time to Celebrate
- game of life : Vala, SDL
- game of life : python, clutter
- networked timed text-to-speech goodness
- battery status in a screen session
- Bright Bike
- turning gears
- incremental screenshot namer wrapper
- a nice little feature/bug
- drawing circles
- broken VHS fixed
- cloudy phone number finder
- network quitter fixer
- the hot sauce experiment
- non-delivered emails sent to AOL domains
- GIMP mathmap experiment results
- tri-force tuna gift
- leave early, take your time, enjoy the solitude
- N37°49'8 W122°28'48
- rotary phone computer interface in action
- python script to play the latest version of an audio broadcast
- rotary phone computer input device
- server log spam from Microsoft?
- creating a CAPTCHA
- hello HTML 5! a simple audio player
- How does that increase security?
- getting familiar with GWT, a porting experiment.
- You're Not Carnival Personnel!
- "disable" a web app's buttons using javascript and css
- litterbugs and jaywalkers
- a basic web-app with pyjamas
- shell script to aid in compiling Vala projects
- Banjo part 4: she's finished
- Accent Characters in Linux with Xorg
- Terminal emulator part deux!
- Community
- Terminal Emulator in Vala using GTK and VTE
- Where is the MPAA on this one?
- pyclutter stage fullscreen hack
- Banjo part 3
- from necessity comes something
- If you build it, they will spam
- writing blogging software ( using data from blogspot )
- From WBEZ Chicago......
- Simple Switch Input to Enter a Command
- perplexing ponderence, pertaining penguin presents
- baby steps: the evolution my feature-free PHP framework
- ruining a perfectly good lamp?
- thank you bazaar
- quick not-so-little bikey bag
- Vala musings : int to string, packages, and starting with main
- my motor vehicle warranty is about to expire? really?
- Bike Trailer Part 2
- getting dandy with a hair pretty
- a not so elegant fixer up
- use python and gstreamer to get the tags of an audio file
- trials with gstreamer, pygst, and goom visualization
- Gaarrrrrrrrr!
- more pyclutter: get a move on - behaviourpath
- scrollwheel css div Internet Explorer 7 problem fixed
- Hello World using pyclutter - a half assed tutorial
The Logic
For some reason, I thought it would be a nice idea to donate all of my nickels to the wonderful fighters for digital freedom at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes Free Speech, Privacy, and Fair Use in this digital age.
My 3 gallon coin jar was full, and my custom change holder thing, although not full, was certainly heavy, so I figured the EFF would get 20 or so bucks, and I'd get a bit of a workout by hauling that cold hard heavy cash around.
The Pile
The first thing I needed to do was to dump all of the coins on the floor in a big pile.
Speaking of big piles... Well surprise surprise, there is my Toshiba for a size comparison.
Time to start sorting those coins....
A Few Nights of "sorting while watching episodes of Star Trek" Later
Hey look at that! A box of pennies, a plastic bin of nickels and my three gallon jar with quarters, dimes, 50¢, and dollar coins.
While sorting, I did remove some of the coins because they either didn't belong, or they needed to be added to my "semi-unique" coin collection.
The removed coins:
- 6 pre 1964 Nickels: for some reason I think they have a high amount of silver and will be worth something in a few years.
- 5 Wheatback Pennies: perhaps I should do more than just add them to the wheatback pile
- 2 Bicentennial Quarters: yes, I have a few of these as well
- 2 Canadian Pennies: what's the exchange rate?
- 1 British Penny: That's like 1.5 US cents! woohoo!
That's the Way I Roll...
This morning I walked to the bank and I carried a very heavy bag with me. Originally, I thought it would be best to get a money order for the EFF and then I remembered this thing call The Internet that would make it easy for me to donate money; so I deposited the money in the bank and, upon returning home, I donated an equal amount of money to the EFF.
Boy were my calculations off.
Total amount of nickels: $52.30
Next stop: Pennies for the Free Software Foundation
Now quit reading, and help those that help you.