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dragonlady7(A marvel: I remain conscious! Well, for sufficiently small values of 'conscious'.) (And by "Ever", I mean, "at this moment." This is very much an in-the-moment post.)
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kkatowll recounts taking her Girl Scouts skiing.
Most Crack-Addled Thing Ever: Dave's teammate in his Ad Hoc Networks class put together their team website. This is what happens when a first-year comp sci graduate gets 1) a copy of Flash, and 2) bored and, apparently, excited at the same time. Love the color scheme. (Also, the buttons' movement is determined by the direction and velocity of your mouse cursor. Play with it a while. Also, the website breaks if you click too many links. Yes.)
ARGH blinky things.
Runner-Up, Most Crack-Addled Thing Ever (link also courtesy of Dave): Nanaca Crash, a Flash game wherein you, a young Japanese girl on a bicycle, have to hit a man and make him bounce through the park as far as possible.
Dave's current record hovers around 3000 meters.
And finally, Most Dumbest Thing:
My bank just sent me a letter about my credit card. See, I've had this thing since 1997. I was 17 when I signed up, so my dad is a guarantor on the account. (He's also the only reason I can have an account with this bank, which is the official bank of the Armed Forces (Motto: "We know what it means to serve"-- which applies to me, I suppose, except that in my case it refers to bloody marys [maries?] not, y'know, the Service) and will only accept Armed Forces members and their families (including adult dependents-- ha ha) as customers. They're a good bank, all things considered. Limitations, sure, but if you're being deployed they know what you need to do with your money in the meantime. (Sure. That helps me.) Anyhow. Time to get out of this parenthetical aside.)
Now, over the last couple months I've had some money issues. So, for the first time in (counts) seven years, I've had to carry a balance for more than two months. A weighty balance.
This letter? I am not making this up:
That was a direct quote, by the way. Yes, nice polished writing. I can totally follow their train of thought. Which goes thus: "Hi, we noticed you're poor. Which means we're actually making money off this account. Here! Let's take Daddy off and see if you screw up more."
I fully anticipate that the next letter will raise my credit to $10,000. And up my interest rate.
Yeah, I'm gonna go eat noodles and fall asleep now. Hopefully in that order. The other order would probably be bad.
Cutest Thing Ever:
kkatowll recounts taking her Girl Scouts skiing.I don't know how my girls picked that up, but they have always wanted to ski, admired the racers on TV, but they were sure that they just couldn't because they were black. Not out of racism, just as a sort of unwritten law.
Most Crack-Addled Thing Ever: Dave's teammate in his Ad Hoc Networks class put together their team website. This is what happens when a first-year comp sci graduate gets 1) a copy of Flash, and 2) bored and, apparently, excited at the same time. Love the color scheme. (Also, the buttons' movement is determined by the direction and velocity of your mouse cursor. Play with it a while. Also, the website breaks if you click too many links. Yes.)
ARGH blinky things.
Runner-Up, Most Crack-Addled Thing Ever (link also courtesy of Dave): Nanaca Crash, a Flash game wherein you, a young Japanese girl on a bicycle, have to hit a man and make him bounce through the park as far as possible.
Dave's current record hovers around 3000 meters.
And finally, Most Dumbest Thing:
My bank just sent me a letter about my credit card. See, I've had this thing since 1997. I was 17 when I signed up, so my dad is a guarantor on the account. (He's also the only reason I can have an account with this bank, which is the official bank of the Armed Forces (Motto: "We know what it means to serve"-- which applies to me, I suppose, except that in my case it refers to bloody marys [maries?] not, y'know, the Service) and will only accept Armed Forces members and their families (including adult dependents-- ha ha) as customers. They're a good bank, all things considered. Limitations, sure, but if you're being deployed they know what you need to do with your money in the meantime. (Sure. That helps me.) Anyhow. Time to get out of this parenthetical aside.)
Now, over the last couple months I've had some money issues. So, for the first time in (counts) seven years, I've had to carry a balance for more than two months. A weighty balance.
This letter? I am not making this up:
Thank you for being an excellent credit card customer. As a result, a guarantor is no longer required on your account and has been released from responsibility.
That was a direct quote, by the way. Yes, nice polished writing. I can totally follow their train of thought. Which goes thus: "Hi, we noticed you're poor. Which means we're actually making money off this account. Here! Let's take Daddy off and see if you screw up more."
I fully anticipate that the next letter will raise my credit to $10,000. And up my interest rate.
Yeah, I'm gonna go eat noodles and fall asleep now. Hopefully in that order. The other order would probably be bad.
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Date: 2005-03-14 01:45 am (UTC)They're great, they're just weird.