A story about money
Money. Paper money, coin money, credit money that you need to pay off with digital money representing your percapita income.
Whatever. We all know what money is.
I find paper money interesting sometimes, especially when you find something peculiar written or scribbled on the face.
Lion Cash for instance.
I'll admit to contributing to operation lioncash, and I've only ever seen one lion cash five in a register at work, but it's always interesting to see what people will write on their money.
One twenty I got from a cash machine had a phone number on it for California. Using skype-out (which is relatively untraceable) I attempted to call that individual to tell him that I received the note. No luck, the number didn't exist anymore. Too bad.
Today I received a dollar that said: For your third tooth. I wish I paid attention to who gave that to me if it was one of my customers but all I can do is imagine who had it.
The real question was, when did that happen? Was it within the last ten years? Probably.
And what about the story about the phone number? Who wrote that number and why?
Seems like an interesting story to me. I guess I'm just folkey in a way.
Finally, today I received a counterfeit $5. It was obviously fake because of how intense the colors were. On real bills the colors are subtle. The problem with fakes are is that they print on one dollar bills from scans of the higher bills so the colors are much more vivid than they are on real monies. This one in particular had been printed backwards, with one side facing up and the other upside down.
I happen to think it's fair to say that counterfeiters are not very artistic, or trained graphic designers in any way or form. I have limited design skills but even I could figure out a way to counterfeit a five, ten, or even twenty dollar bill without falling into that problem.
Although I'm pretty sure talking about it in a public forum would be frowned upon even on a personal journal. I'm responsible enough not to put instructions for that sort of thing that can be found in a google search. Oh well.
PM me if you really want to know.
Whatever. We all know what money is.
I find paper money interesting sometimes, especially when you find something peculiar written or scribbled on the face.
Lion Cash for instance.
I'll admit to contributing to operation lioncash, and I've only ever seen one lion cash five in a register at work, but it's always interesting to see what people will write on their money.
One twenty I got from a cash machine had a phone number on it for California. Using skype-out (which is relatively untraceable) I attempted to call that individual to tell him that I received the note. No luck, the number didn't exist anymore. Too bad.
Today I received a dollar that said: For your third tooth. I wish I paid attention to who gave that to me if it was one of my customers but all I can do is imagine who had it.
The real question was, when did that happen? Was it within the last ten years? Probably.
And what about the story about the phone number? Who wrote that number and why?
Seems like an interesting story to me. I guess I'm just folkey in a way.
Finally, today I received a counterfeit $5. It was obviously fake because of how intense the colors were. On real bills the colors are subtle. The problem with fakes are is that they print on one dollar bills from scans of the higher bills so the colors are much more vivid than they are on real monies. This one in particular had been printed backwards, with one side facing up and the other upside down.
I happen to think it's fair to say that counterfeiters are not very artistic, or trained graphic designers in any way or form. I have limited design skills but even I could figure out a way to counterfeit a five, ten, or even twenty dollar bill without falling into that problem.
Although I'm pretty sure talking about it in a public forum would be frowned upon even on a personal journal. I'm responsible enough not to put instructions for that sort of thing that can be found in a google search. Oh well.
PM me if you really want to know.