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Bringing Garbage Home
Some people up the street were throwing this table away. It was in pretty bad shape and one of the legs was off. I've glued the leg back...
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http://www.miamiherald.com/367/story/256844.html How dare he "prefer" a Christian for President... You would think that he persona...
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In one of his classes, Emperor had only a couple friends because "the rest of the people are jerks and say nasty things to me." A...
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Maybe my bloggy friend Virginia has seen a six and a half-foot tall curly-top kid driving about in a grey car with Missouri license plates s...
I recently had an account that I pay for get closed on me. I checked. Nope, there's money in there. So I contacted them.
ReplyDelete"Uh, sir, you need to have money in your account before we can reactivate it."
...and that's when I noticed the parentheses. ...right ($5) is different from $5. Why couldn't accounting folk just use the normal negative sign for stuff?
Symbols, placement, context ... all important. I'm still running into these lessons and I'm way beyond first grade...
~Luke
Yikes! I suppose thankfully, you're not as "rich" as you thought... only think if you had ($5,000) how hard things would be. Hopefully all straightened out by now. :/
DeleteOkay, maybe it is just me - but if that is a decimal point doesn't that mean it is the same amount? Maybe I need to go back to school.
ReplyDeleteNot just you! Little kids think lots of extra zeroes means more money. :)
DeleteThat's a decimal point, not a comma, so it is still $1000. Just one thousand and no cents.
ReplyDeleteTo be more, that would have to be a comma with three zeros after it.
I'd love to add extra zeros to my bank balance and have them actually mean something.
At least Rose knows that more zeros can mean more money.
At least! She's very cute. I think she will actually grow up to manage her money pretty well, so I'm enjoying the tininess while I have it. :)
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