Posts Tagged ‘Comedy’

This is just amusing. It’s nice to know that my loan is preapproved and all that. But it’s got to be pretty bad when they can’t even afford the full postage on getting the paperwork to me.

It’s okay Mr. Postman, I’ve got your $.41 covered. I’m sure Wells Fargo can’t spare any of that TARP money just yet.

I’m not sure why, but the inner geek in me was wondering how rice cookers work as I made some rice pilaf in my small but awesome cuisinart rice cooker. Someone and I forget who, said it had something to do with the weight. But turns out, according to this, that in fact, it does not. Instead a rice cooker senses a rise in temperature above 212° Fahrenheit. Somehow this seems like one of those “duh, of course” sort of things. Then again I keep saying that for every time I hear about another iPhone dev making thousands on some crappy $.99 app.

So this is one I don’t think I’ll ever understand. I’ve got a WaMu Online Savings account, and somehow they’re providing 3.93% interest / 4% APY. How is this possible when they basically went under and got bought out. 4% is one of the best rates around. Meanwhile looking at my 401K is rather depressing, since January 28th, it’s -23.4%. I know it’s stupid to look at it short term but it’s just lame to think I would’ve been better off putting my money in a failed bank than putting it into a well diversified 401K (not counting the tax stuff of course). Either way, I don’t think I’ll ever get over the way credit and savings works. Seems like a complete sham when we can be charged 10% or more in interest yet we’re lucky to even be getting 4% on the money the banks hold for us. Sure banks are a bit more reliable at paying up but still. I think maybe I should just invest in salt for the forthcoming apocalypse.

First, Jon points out the BSOD screenshot in OS X. And now tonight I notice the same music from a Zune viral used in an iPod ad during Heroes.

Even more amusing is the story behind the ad.

As is finding humor in old comments from others…

Talked to Bryce of the most awesome band ever, Instant Winner… And he was pointing me to some crap about his band.

“Insant Winner? Bah! Ask anyone in the area and theyll probably refer to them as Instant Bizkit or Instant Whiner. Shitty Rap – Metal with horns, and they only attract preppy ass little highschool whores, best band my ass.”

So I started checking out crap from my past. First thing that came to mind was the awesome comments I got after Dom slashdotted my amazingly long winded review of the PMC. I was called a smug little prick, and people even thought then that it was a grand Microsoft scheme and that I wasn’t a real person. And that I was a huge Apple hater. Oddly enough I now work at said company. And even more odd I almost worked for Apple on the iPhone. But then again, they didn’t exactly hire me now did they. Oh and I guess technically I work for Volt not Microsoft anyhow.

But going further back in history. Back to the days of cj8309@telis.org. My first email… There’s this gem from the alt.tv.star-trek.voyager newsgroup.

I both hate and love the fact that when I’m old and grumpy there’ll be these greast pieces of information out there just floating. God save me if I ever get into politics or become famous.