Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Joke Software: Coin Drop 1.0

Posted January 5, 2010 12:04am ET

Have you ever been angry at a company—particularly when they say you owe them money—and are tempted to pay your bill with coins just to annoy them? We’ve all been there, but people always take the simplistic approach of paying in pennies.

Coin Drop is a groundbreaking web application that helps you compute how to pay a troublesome bill in roughly equal amounts of the various denominations of United States coinage. Why pay your $500 bill with a simple 50,000 pennies when you can pay with a confusing jumble of 1,219 quarters, 1,221 dimes, 1,219 nickels, and 1,220 pennies?

The program lets you pick and choose your coinage, so if you hate quarters but love those stupid dollar coins you are in luck. It’ll even tell you how many rolls you need to get from the bank. Enjoy!

Program Specs:

  • Written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (incl. jQuery).

Version History:

  • Version 1.0 (January 4, 2010): First version.

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Scott Bradford has been building web sites and using them to say what he thinks since 1995, which tended to get him in trouble with power-tripping assistant principals at the time. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University, but has spent most of his career (so far) working on public- and private-sector web sites. He is not a member of any political party, and brands himself an ‘independent constitutional conservative.’ In addition to holding down a day job and blogging about challenging subjects like politics, religion, and technology, Scott is also a devout Catholic, gun-owner, bike rider, and music lover with a wife and two cats.

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