After purchasing a new mobile phone a couple days ago, I quickly realized that the new service that I ordered wasn’t functioning.

Let me start at the beginning. I switched my service last year from Sprint to Cingular. The main reason that I switched is because my phone no longer worked at home or the office. That only left the car and that accounted for only 30 minutes per day. I was long overdo for a new phone service.

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If you pay with cash it’s inevitable that you’ll receive back change. Now change unto it’s self are a pain let alone pennies. Which brings me to my next question… “Why are we still using pennies”? Can we just round up to the nickel? Can we just eliminate pennies from the whole picture? I mean do we need to be that accurate when we’re purchasing items. Instead of an item costing $4.78, it would cost $4.80. Are we all that concerned about those extra two pennies? Would we even notice the change?

I guess when it comes to the big picture we wouldn’t notice the change. Of course I’m no numbers expert but I know getting rid of pennies would have an impact especially on lower priced items. In effect, we would be paying more. But you know what? I’m all in. I’m tired of dealing with pennies. I know some of you will suggest using a debit card. Most of the time I pay with a debit card but not always.

The folks over at kokogiak media have answered the question “Have you ever wondered what a billion pennies would look like?” Well sure, I’ve often wondered that. Exactly how many pennies is that? Not only have they answered that question, but also they’ve taken it a bit further out.

The mega penny project

In the fall of 2004 I was perusing the new television line up. I selected a few new show and set Tivo to record them. Two weeks passed and my Tivo was filling up. I briefly watched a couple of shows and promptly deleted them. Then I saw that I had two episodes of LOST. I actually wondered if I should invest the next two hours watching the show only to have to watch another that week. I watched the first episode. Twenty minutes in and I was hooked. I was so excited to watch the next episode. After watching the next episode I was hungry for more.

So it was. Wednesday nights were now king. When you have Tivo, usually you never watch a show live because you can fast forward through the commercials and power watch. (Hey, why spend an hour watching a show when you can watch it in forty-five minutes.) I watched LOST live because it was that good. It kept you on the edge of your seat.
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