There are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems.

Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Nigis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.

Mullfoto of the Day

DCA, 5:45 AM Tuesday.

The last Accenture airport sign featuring Tiger?

Catchy Caption of the Day

Actual Caption:

Winter ride : A man pulls his grandson on a sled through a completely snow-covered landscape in the Erz Mountains (Erzgebirge) near Altenberg, where temperatures fell to minus ten degrees celsius and are supposed to fall even more in the next days.

I looked up the Wikipedia entry for Altenberg. This is it:

Altenberg is an Ortsteil (area) in the municipality of Odenthal in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and was formerly the seat of the Counts of Berg. Over the course of time they created around their Residence a small dominion, which later came to be called the Bergisches Land.

Ah. THAT's where it is.

(AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer)