Excessive Bank Fees

The $2.7 billion second quarter profit by JPMorgan and the $3.44 billion profit at Goldman Sachs would have been pocket change for Bank of America if they had successfully pulled off this heist.

New Hampshire resident Josh Muszynski bought a pack of cigarettes at a local gas station for what he thought would be a few bucks but his bank account indicated he actually spent $23 quadrillion instead.

Expecting to see a few hundred dollars of charges when he logged online to check his debit account, Muszynski was amazed to see the 17-digit figure of $23,148,855,308,184,500.

Damn him for noticing. I would have assumed another cigarette tax went into effect.

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!golb t'nac I oS

!PLEH

!sdrawkcab gnipytsi draobyek yM

Problem solved! I had to reboot. I also did some research and learned that you can delete the keyboard driver and reboot and let it reinstall the driver and that will correct the problem. I also vacuumed cat hair out of the keyboard just in case that was a problem. Certainly can't be a good thing!

Another site had something up about pressing CTRL and the left shift key or CTRL and the right shift key to alternate between typing backwards which strikes me as odd. Who the fuck wants to type backwards?

File that away for future reference.

For He Is Risen

Praise Jesus, I may never be able to turn on a light again without having an uplifting religious experience.



Come closer children, and ye shall see the light.

The one-liner potential is truly endless, not to mention tasteless. Whoever decided to market this product really should have involved a focus group for feedback.

From Jeff Fecke at Shakesville, and others. And I'm sure the list is growing.

What's Up With The Poor Reception

Growing up in southeast Arkansas I had a particular affection for the transmission tower of the ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock. At 2,000 feet it was the 2nd tallest TV tower in the world when I was growing up, and it guaranteed us clear reception even though we lived 85 miles from it. So I'm a little sad to learn the tower collapsed while maintenance was being done on it.

The once 2nd tallest structure in the world now lays in piles of steel. Remarkably, no one was seriously injured, but crews working to strengthen the tower had been just minutes away from climbing it to replace cable.