Classmates

So I still get emails from classmates.com. How in the world is that site still around when Facebook is out there and free? Wonders may never cease.

Fuzzy Math Part Deux

So you go to Taco Bell. You get a #8 which is 3 soft tacos and a drink(a big drink, but a drink nonetheless). It cost 4.59 plus tax.

3 soft tacos are .99 x 3 = $2.97.
A large drink is 1.69 = 1.69
1.69 + 2.97 = 4.66 which means to get the combo you are saving 8 cents.

However, say your eating in and not drive thru. You can refill a small just as many times as a large.
Small drink is 1.39
1.39+2.97 = 4.36.

It's cheaper to buy separate than the meal deal.

Marketing genius's I tell ya.

Fuzzy Math

I have long since lived by 2 notions:

1) Not everyone is cut out for college.

2) If you work at McD's, Burger King, Staples, Walmart, you work there for a reason. I.E. you're a teenager with few discernable skills looking to make some money, you're a senior citizen looking for a low stress job, or you are from #1.

I ran into the last one as the manager of a Staples store yesterday. So this past weekend I bought a 5370DW brother printer. I'll leave tax out of my numbers just to make things round easier. The printer was regularly $250 minus an instant rebate of $50. I had a $25 coupon off $150 so I effectively paid $175 for the printer right there. The catch is they also had a $50 off if you traded in an old printer. Once the printer came in, I was to take my old printer into the store and they'd credit me back $50 bucks. So I was prepared to pay $125 for this printer when I clicked submit.

So yesterday my printer came in. I went to the store and told the guy I need my $50 rebate on a trade in printer. So here's what he did. He credited me back $250 bucks for the old printer. I said you realize I only pay $175? He didn't say a word, said just sign. So i did some quick thinking and realized he was going to credit me $250 then charge me $200 again and I would net out my $50 bucks. So I sign my credit payback of $250.

Then he rings up the printer again with the $50 rebate. Only he rings up a Brother 5370D(not DW) which was regularly $250 with a $50 off instant rebate. Then he took off the next $50 for the printer trade in. So he only charged my $150 on the charge back.

So the final total was initial charge of $175, credit of $250, and then charge of $150 = $75 out the door plus tax for the printer. Dude just completely screwed Staples out of $50 bucks i was more than prepared to pay. I even pointed it out to him and he still did it. So either he's really nice and wanted to give me an even better deal than I had, or...

Seriously, not everyone is cut out for college.

WWW.STFE.COM

STFE has officially begun.
The start - I saw 214 one morning on the scale. All the work to get to 200 gone.
The goal - 195 by the morning of July 3rd ( beach trip).

Tools
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Modified P90X will start this Saturday. Only half of the 1 hour workouts, and only 4 days a week. The goal is to keep my wife engaged into it so that I have a partner, else we'll both fail.
STFE - Seriously, just stop the fuck eating.

Reset - Thursday we were 208 this morning. I expect 205 by next Thursday.

Fail!

Link

All of the dot booms of the market show abundance.
Then the stock market barage would be selfishness.
Thinking it would never end is now complacency.

I think were currently in apathy, getting ready to step into dependence with this health care bill. Which means we'll be back in bondage before too long.

New things I've learned that are cool

#1 is the Iatkos distribution for turning a regular PC running windows into a dual boot running Mac OS X. This shit is cool. It would probably run better on my desktop but I was scared to flatline that one accidentally so I did my laptop. Fortunately it worked and didn't kill my laptop. Unfortunately there aren't many drivers out there for the chipset on my video driver. So basically my laptop will dual boot and show nothing when I choose mac os x. However if I attach an external monitor I see good stuff. I havent gotten some stuff working like networking, but if you can believe it the webcam on my laptop which never gets used magically worked. Go figure. So I've effectively done nothing with the mac os yet, but its still cool I can.

#2 I got a dell mini for my sister in law's sister. She wants windows, its got Ubuntu. I've got XP Professional so I'm dropping that on there. So i read some stuff and found out about slipstreamming. You basically take your OS cd, put it on your hard drive(for example I have Windows XP service Pack 1a). Then you download service pack 3(or whatever service pack you want). This program called nLite will slipstream service pack 3 overtop of your image. Burn the iso out to cd and you now have your regular OEM Windows CD with all the service packs you want. So the next time you reinstall you dont have to download 1 million and 1 updates from windows. Pretty cool.

#3 Women drivers... Just kidding. They still suck!

Baseball Craziness

Stage: Last game for the Pirates for 2009. One of my top players Josh, who loves to play catcher, decides he's gonna catch this game. Last game, what the hell.

Top 1st, were the home team, Josh catching.
First batter: pops straight up and back. Josh catches. Out 1.
Second, third batters: hits
Fourth batter: Pops straight up and back. Josh catches, again. Out 2.
Fifth batter: hit and loads bases.
Sixth batter: Pops up straight and back left. Josh up and moves over to catch. Out 3.
3 outs, all by the catcher. Number of outs by catcher preceding this in 2 years of coach pitch in my tenure...0.

Bottom 1st, we're hitting:
Batters 1,2,3: All hits, bases juiced.
Batter 4, liner to the pitcher. Out 1. Everyone runs. WTF?!?!?!? Go back go back. Pitcher throws to 3rd. 3rd is standing on 3rd so runner at 3rd coming back is out. Runner from 2nd is standing next to 3rd, not on it, not out yet. Much yelling ensues. All kids just stand there like what the hell, finally 3rd baseman tags said runner. Triple freaking play.

After 1 inning: 0-0(unheard of in coach pitch) with a catcher getting 3 outs alone, and a triple play.

All coaches needed a drink for this one.