Random thoughts and questions

Do what? Those things are like a dollar apiece. Not a bottle. A strip. Which I know because I buy them.



In other news, I'd like to take a moment to put on my interface designer hat and speak directly to Wells Fargo. Hey dudes - your deposit interface for the ATM is the stupidest thing. See, the trick about frequent, brief, repetitive, similar transactions is that you always want them to work the same. So, for instance, when you barf out a receipt and I drive off without my card, that's not really entirely my fault for being stupid, because you've trained me, through several years of banking, to expect that the receipt is the LAST part of the transaction. So, you know, blow me.

Also, I'm pretty sure that that creature I interacted with on the phone after I specifically asked not to deal with a machine was, in fact, a machine. Though I congratulate you on the likeness. That's some science fiction bullshit right there. Either that or you really need to relax the scripting.

The ATM eats your card when you don't retrieve it in a few seconds or someone else tries to start a transaction, so don't go all



about it.

Also when I needed to handle that situation I called into their office, hit buttons until shit happened and then asked them to direct me to the phone number for the bank with my ATM card. At which point I spoke to a human and they retrieved my card and had it waiting for me.

Their interface does suck, and worse yet it varies from ATM to ATM. Banks all have legacy software pretty much everywhere but you'd think a uniform UI wouldn't be super hard.

My entry for best Christmas music, non-Benjamin Britten division:

Happened to me 2 months ago. I felt like such an idiot when I got home and looked in my wallet. Left my debit card at the fucking bank.

I have no idea what I'll be doing on Christmas day, but I sure hope it involves watching Die Hard.

I prefer the solution at Chase ATMs: you swipe your card similar to a gas station, so it never leaves your hand into the machine. Done and done.

The Regions banks here hand your card back to you as soon as you stick it in the slot. Good move.

I was talking to my brother about Electric Six (I wanted to do Gay Bar at karaoke evening but my friends told me not to and I chickened out). Suddenly he starts singing Naked Pictures Of Your Mother. I should note that both my mother and my father were present at this conversation.

Sometimes I just have to walk away from threads and cry.

Truer words were never spoken.

The ATM at my bank won't let you move forward with your transaction until you retrieve your card from the slot. Seems like the most obvious solution for machines with a slot that eats your card.

My credit union's ATMs prefer that you insert your card and withdraw it quickly, rather than their eating it.

HAHAHAHA-*cough*
Wow. I'm so far behind in that thread that I have no clue what is going on where you linked.
What the hell does Santa have to do with pirates?

I think it's some sort of side-story or add on. I get that Japan doesn't view Santa the same way we do, but I am not okay with romancing good ol' St Nick who brought me presents as a child.

Santa's got a package you wouldn't believe, and he's just dying to rustle down your chimney so he can put it under your tree and make you squeal with delight.

Afterwards he'll lap up your milk.

Santa brings KFC to Japanese pirates on Christmas Eve, as he has always done. OBVIOUSLY.

YOU ARE A BAD PERSON AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD
GO SIT IN THE CORNER AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE

You are buying the expensive brands then. Most pharmacies offer less expensive systems now. For example, Walmart sells the Relion brand test meter for $16 and 50 test strips for that are $9.

STOP THE DATING SIM LEAKAGE

Your words say no, but in your heart lies a longing for leakage.

Leakage always makes me think of:

I'm glad we're on the same page!

None of you make sense anymore.
Alternatively, that might just be the shift of realignment settling wrong.
More data is needed! *browses*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra

This stabbing pain in my left eye, which I've now had three times over the past 6 weeks, can fuck the hell right off.

Third round of ultrasounds: negative. CT: they haven't called me back yet, so I assume nothing's going to happen until Tuesday. Speak: dizzy after walking to the grocery store, but alive. Medical updates: temporarily ceasing.

Lord, I don't know what the hell they did, but at this point, I'd be ready to sue.
Hope you feel all the way back to awesome soon. :<

Glad to hear you're mostly okay, Speak. /hugs ;^;

<huggles you people>

Huggles are awesome.

Twice in the last few years I've driven up to an ATM and the person in front of me had left their card. Both times I've walked into the bank and turned them in, but it's got to be a fairly common thing with non-swipe models.

After all of my troubles falling asleep, I'm now having troubles staying awake.
I've spent so many hours of this day sleeping, it's sad. Now I'm gonna go right back to bed because I can't keep my eyes open any longer.
Total conscious hours: 7.

BofA gobbled my card, but then some of their atms were swipe model so I'm guessing each branch makes their own call.

Taught a 2.5 hour class today.

2.5 hours "on" is tough on this introvert. After cleaning up I was sitting in the employee kitchen, apparently looking wiped out, because my boss (who co-taught) kept asking if I was all right and telling me how great I was. I just used up all ability to act like a normal person I guess. I got home and slept for three hours --- just long enough that when I woke up, Mr.W was just going to bed :( now I'm wide awake and don't know what to do with myself.

Santa is a pirate.

"Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" vs. "ho ho ho and a bottle of sherry"
Blackbeard vs White beard

I could go on...

Greece got a write down because of Christine Lagarde (imf). And Shinzo Abe (mr poo pants himself, the creepy war criminal worshipper who's likely to make a comeback as japanese pm) is screaming at the BoJ to ease policy and allow inflation.

I'm so confused. I thought the one would be more DSK and the other would be dead. Yet here they are and I'm rooting for them because their policy goals align with mine.

Inflation in Japan would mean a resurgent large economy. And a writedown in greece means the (gradual) end of idiotic austerity plus the ecb willing to take losses on ez govt debt.

Figure market rebound plus some employment gains once both are fully priced in. If Germany could be convinced to reduce their current account surplus we'd be in the home stretch and out of the lesser depression.

Or maybe it all goes to shit anyway because we're on track for 4 degrees. At least there's absinthe.

Are there or have there ever been any religions that do not posit some form of life after death, be it reincarnation or the continuation of the 'soul' (or vital spirit or a similar concept) in some way?

Judaism pre-Talmud.

I pay $1 for a box of 100. But then, I do live in a country that doesn't see healthcare as yet another way to fuck people over.

Long presentations are exhausting even for non-introverts. I taught a 3.5-hour session to some affordable housing professionals Tuesday, and it was mentally and physically tiring. And I always seem to get that coveted after-lunch time slot when I'm also struggling to keep people awake.