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~ TCJ (The Comics Journal)
"A couple years of experience in the Otaku circle have taught me at least one good lesson--to trust Adam."
~ myO member
"Adam is actually a decently accomplished troll."
~ Allamorph
"The scale of Adam's cunning genius is truly frightening."
~ TimeChaser
My award for worst bank ever goes to HSBC:
Here's why:
I opened up an account and never received checks for it. I go to the branch and ask for them, they have me fill out a form and said that checks will be mailed to me shortly.
I receive a booklet of checks. All is fine. Except I look at my account balance and see they charged me $91(!) for this booklet.
$91!!!!!
Apparently they're not obligated to tell you:
(1) That there's a charge for checks
(2) That they have a bunch of different options for checks
(3) That they're going to go ahead and sign you up for the most ridiculously priced option
This feels like it should be illegal to me.
It took about 1+ hours, but I finally solved this puzzle.
Anyone brave enough to give it a try?
Highlight below for the answer:
The Norwegian drinks water and the Japanese owns the zebra
In addition to the NY Times article that was printed today about Nimble, I got some surprising press with that Netflix-IMDB tool I built
(You can see the tool here here)
Reddit made it a main page link, Hacking Netflix blogged about it, so did the IFC Channel, tons of people Facebook-linked it, and it got a lot of traction on StumbleUpon
In total about 15,000 people checked it out today @___@. Glad I could help some people out.
I felt a bit down + irritable all day though.
Emotions are weird animals.
As seen on the New York Freakin' Times!
I did something pretty awesome:
It took almost all day but I made a web script that downloads IMDB's list of top 250 movies and then automatically runs each movie by Netflix to see whether they offer it as an instant streaming film.
There are two small bugs that I need to fix before release, but it works!! And--at least for me--it's pretty useful
(This is the kind of stuff I do on my time off from work...)
