If nothing else I am known as a man with umpteen pet peeves. One of them is CAPTCHA. (It’s an acronym–I won’t provide the full expansion here for fear of barfing on my keyboard out of its sheer inanity.) I guess it’s great that it reduces comment spam and mass bot purchasing on Ticketmaster, but, [...]
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white supremacitibank
Starting tomorrow, Citibank will charge me a $7.50/month service fee to keep my money if I don’t maintain a $1,500 average balance on my checking account. (I imagine that the other national banks will follow suit soon.) I plan on closing my account and switching to my free, local credit union. But in case I don’t [...]
later, panda
Tai Shan is being deported to China on February 4. Rather than getting misty-eyed about his impending departure, I say, good riddance. That’s right–I’m anti-panda.
The Supreme Court recently affirmed personal freedom of speech rights for corporations. I’d like to think that if there actually was a prosopopoetic corporation, he would sound like the stiff at [...]
beer, coffee, and trains
So it’s the end of the week, and I’m incredibly scatterbrained at the moment for some reason. I’m at my parents’ for the weekend–it’s my dad’s birthday today.
I took the 3:50 pm Brunswick Line MARC train up to Frederick from Union Station this afternoon. I picked the drunk train. (Fox 5 did a story about [...]