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At the renaissance festival, I found a storefront that was selling coin medallions. There was a guy with a sledgehammer out front striking the coin.

Their designs were limited, though. I wanted:

1. an antipenny, or negative one cent coin.
2. an R-pentomino, the shape from which I derive my LJ name. A pattern in John Conway's Life which expands into a much more complicated pattern.
3. Pac-Man. Because I'm a classic video game geek, I like food, and everyone who sees it will recognize it.

They had various religious/spiritual symbols, animal spirit symbols (no tigers, Jeremy!) and signs of the Zodiac.

Comments

[atillathehung.livejournal.com]

Classic video games rock, don't they? Give me a good Pac Man, Asteroids or Missile Command game and I'm happy as a pig in shit. All this new stuff is all graphics and cheat codes. Although there was a pretty cool one called Trojan around 1988, well after the "classic" period...bet ya can't guess what amused me so much about that game! Later, Moby!

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[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Trojan was one of my brother's favorites.

But, junkhouse was over a while ago and he thought all the levels looked the same (well, the first two did) and the little vs fighting game was crappy.

[jecook]

Bummer.

Did they have a bear by any chance?

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Yes, they did. As well as cat, lion, and puma, if you're not too picky.

I have their catalog.

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

1. an antipenny, or negative one cent coin.


Maybe my brane is just fried from reading too many sociological studies of the construction of quarks, but I found this idea truly hilarious. Even more so if you imagine spinning an antipenny and penny in opposite directions, and tracing Feynman diagrams of the change generated from their collisions.

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[pentomino.livejournal.com]

It would be blue and have a picture of Jefferson Davis on it.

Perhaps the idea could be expanded. You could rob banks by leaving a suitcase full of anti-hundreds in the bathroom.