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First and last credit card
My first credit card — a Chase Rewards card that I got back in 2005 to help with Thorn expenses — is now my last and final. It had a $300 credit limit when I got it, and had a $2700 limit earlier this evening. I paid the remaining bit of balance on it this morning and closed it just 20 minutes ago once I saw the balance was $0. It took 2 minutes and 52 seconds to sever my last line of revolving credit. I feel strangely… cut loose. Like I’m no longer wrapped up in so much of America’s debt problem, even though I still have loans. But…
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (December 12th)
Links for December 12th from 09:47 to 09:47: OVERCOMPENSATING: The Journal Comic With a Seething Disdain for Reality. – "I think the casual misappropriation of the concept of rape extending all the way to its widespread comical usage is disgusting even by Internet standards."
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (December 9th)
Links for December 9th from 17:34 to 23:19: The Emacs Code Browser « Software bits and pieces – This is a very nice little guide to getting a nice code browser set up in emacs. It's cake, and it's cute. It does mean a few more shortcuts to remember, though… Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy – "I happen to hold a hard-won minority opinion about code bases. In particular I believe, quite staunchly I might add, that the worst thing that can happen to a code base is size."
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (December 9th)
Links for December 9th from 16:09 to 16:09: Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software – On code-rewriting: "It's important to remember that when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time." Except, you know, hubris.
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Tastee (del.icio.us) links! (December 3rd)
Links for December 3rd from 14:55 to 14:55: Yak Shaving – "You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you're supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you're doing to the original meta-task."