I hate you. Check the timestamp of this post to actualize how much I hate you.
I hate your accent, that I still can’t spell your name without spellcheck after three years of living here, that your drivers suck, that your detours suck more than your drivers, and that your road signs suck more than both.
I hate that your “Right Lane Exit Airport” really means “Exit to 93 North Only and you won’t have a chance to get on 93 South, if that is so your intention, until you are 30-minutes in the wrong direction” even when 93 South is an equally respectable egress from the airport that doesn’t offer free Wi-Fi.
I’m sleeping on his side of the bed with the body pillow for the last few ***** of sleep I can get before class. Then, I’m going to wake up and light votive candles for the morons who run this state.
Dear Adobe,
Your not releasing Intel native applications until Q2 of 2007 is why I hope Apple releases a Photoshop killer and finally ends the misery of your company.
Warmest regards,
Jeremiah Cohick
The Fortune Teller: my latest New Media 2 project. Please make your own fortune telling machine for my demonstration on Wednesday at 10 AM EST.
So it’s the end of Spring Break Day 2. I have a number of projects to be working on while my love and Unfertig are away.
First up was Emersive’s new site design. This redesign was my second attempt at using ExpressionEngine. It’s a wonderful, extremely powerful content management system with the world’s worst URI handling.
Tomorrow, I am meeting Jack to work on an ambitious 3D animation, compositing project for The EVVY Awards website. Yes, 3D and compositing for a website. My other major EVVY project is a Flash-based interface to the submission system, but my books have not yet arrived.
And then there is my independent study that needs lots of attention…
Music: Long Train Runnin’ by The Doobie Brothers
Academy Awards Night at Emerson is the biggest religious holiday on campus. I think it’s mostly self-loving Hollywood having a collective orgasm for itself, but hey, I’d love to win an Oscar some day! And I had a blast watching the show with Liz and Julie.
Jon Stewart was hysterical, but his jokes weren’t received well judging from the laughter. Hollywood lives in its own bubble, so that isn’t too surprising. Even with the king of comedy, ratings dropped 10%.
Perhaps America-at-large doesn’t care about the movie industry. Stewart intelligently quipped about increased piracy, theater attendance decline, attitudes towards Hollywood elitism, and the banality of Oscar montages.
The ceremony’s central lesson: Play a real person enmeshed in wrenching drama, win an Academy Award.
Capote wasn’t that great, nor was Memoirs of a Geisha or King Kong, and yet they kept winning. I am ecstatic that Crash won for Best Picture, though I felt it should have also won for Best Director. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Brokeback Mountain, but I feel that Crash was a stronger story and presentation of social issues to a wider audience.
The issue-based themes of this year’s best movies might have isolated half of America, but I am glad that Hollywood decided to be a hammer and not a mirror for the first time in a long time.
Music: Travelin’ Through by Dolly Parton
I recently opened a checking account with Bank of America. I am a (mostly) happy customer with a credit union in California. However, half of my income is earned at Emerson. Emerson refuses to offer direct deposit for student employees. (Not surprisingly, Emerson will gladly arrange direct payments from students.) I had to mail my Emerson paychecks across the country every two-weeks. As a typical poor college student, I need cash almost immediately.
Bank of America is everywhere in Boston, thanks to its buyout of Fleet. I began looking into its banking options on its website. I noticed that Bank of America allows you to open an account online. How nifty for the iPod generation, I thought.
And then applied. The application was quick and worked in Safari perfectly (unlike some poorly developed banking websites). Upon submitting, I was told that my account could not be opened immediately for some reason the website wouldn’t give me. This was the beginning of much frustration.
The next day, I went into a local branch to ask, “WTF?” I signed a piece of paper and was told that my account should be activated soon. I asked if I could make a deposit. I was told that I could, but that I would have to use an out-of-state deposit form that required significantly more information to make a deposit at the branch.
“What state am I out of?” I asked.
“Texas, it looks like. They usually put the online sign-ups in Virginia,” the teller said with some dismay to the online sign-up.
Fortunately, I can make a streamlined deposit at any ATM.
Then there was the issue of online banking. Bank of America uses your SSN as your default user name. Are these people stupid?! Even if they aren’t, they are living pre-identify theft crisis. Bank of America makes it so complicated because my PIN in not my SiteKey is not my password is not this or that or anything else you might have entered during the multi-step account setup. Thanks to Arthur, I understand what all of the different things are, but shouldn’t it be painfully obvious?
Bank of America has my business until August when I move to LA. I will lose my free student account by then anyway since they only offer 6-months to students without parents who also use the bank.
I’m not impressed.
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