Category Archives: General

I don’t know any US geography, either.

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Being a Canadian and all. I still know that Alaska is bigger than Texas… If I was a 5th grader on this damn game show, I’d totally mess with the adult contestants by answering everything incorrectly on purpose. But then, I’m not a nice person. Every kid knows writing the wrong answers down temporarily is the best way to thwart cheaters. At least, the kids who aren’t the ones cheating know it.

Telephone Tax Refund PSA

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I just filed my federal taxes. I didn’t forget about the telephone tax refund, did you? This is at least $30 back in your pocket.

“The telephone tax refund is a one-time payment available on your 2006 federal income tax return, designed to refund previously collected federal excise taxes on long-distance or bundled service. It is available to anyone who paid such taxes on landline, wireless, or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service.”

Indeed. Got me some $40, hurray!

Windows Vista is an Asshole

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Does not save my sounds settings. Does not save my taskbar settings (if I turn on auto-hide, it’s off again after I reboot). Does not save my desktop settings (if I uncheck “show desktop icons”, they’re back on again after I reboot — curiously, “show desktop items” is still unchecked). Took me altogether too long to get Firefox working as my default browser (and in the end I wasn’t satisfied with the half-assedness, so I installed a nightly build instead). Also, this shit is slow. Pretty lame, Milhouse. Yet, it somehow works better than my latest install of XP.

But there are no compatible drivers for my sound card. M-Audio’s fault, though. Bleh.