Thursday, September 23, 2004

Piling Up The Pennies Everyone likes to earn money.  Maybe they don't all enjoy doing the work to get the money, but they certainly like the paycheck.  But that paycheck usually only comes once every couple of weeks, or maybe once a month. Wouldn't it be more satisfying to watch the money add up in real time as you're earning it?  Wouldn't it be cool to have a display on your desk that shows to the penny how much you're making as you work?  Of course you'd probably get sucked into just watching the thing rather than doing actual labor, but after awhile you'd get used to it being there and you'd just glance over every once in awhile. Well, if you have a computer on your desk at work, this can become a reality.  Just go to the Monster Salary Timer and plug in your annual income.  From there it'll calculate how much you make per second and start adding it up. Cool, huh?  But wait, there's more. You can also compare your earning rate with a celebrity.  For instance you can watch how Tiger Woods is raking it in at the obscene rate of $7.36 a second.  Meanwhile I limp along at a measily penny or so a second. One.  Two.  Three.  Four.  Five.  Six. You know, in half an hour, I can buy a cd. (Or in ten minutes, I can download it.  That's right, I'm a !) 7:36:06 PM     |

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