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I’m damned glad it’s the financial system that imploding, and not implosion triggers, for what it’s worth. 

Looking over her shoulder at my fianceé’s myspace, I noticed something peculiar, perhaps in relation to why MySpace is full of pervs.

Look at the title bar for your MySpace - notice anything funny, like after it says “MySpace.com - Yourname” the only three things it displays are, in order, Age, Sex, and Location? It’s the oldest internet meme, heck, it may have even started on AOL before AOL was the internet, A/S/L.

Now I’m really glad I don’t have a MySpace.

I recently posted about how I was lucky enough to pay off my credit cards. One of my cards had a credit limit of, oh, right around $13k. I payed off about $7k I had been holding on there. I just logged back in to make sure nothing had been charged to the card (they charged me 30 days of interest 9 days after I payed off my card… but whatever, not worth arguing about)… and I found, much to my dismay, that they have nearly doubled my credit line, to $23k. It’s like they’re saying “Oh, you got ahead? Well, instead of the shovel, here’s a backhoe to dig yourself a new hole to live in, our bestest friend.” It was bad enough they send me blank checks every two weeks trying to lure me into more purchases “Oh, here’s how you can split it up. $2000 for tuition, $5000 for a vay-kay, $1000 for a pretty rock for your girlfriend so she wont leave you, etc etc.”

This just takes the cake. I am going to call them now. I did not ask for this credit limit increase, nor did I want it. AND the only way to find out my nominal interest rate was to go back to a statement that actually had something printed on it (2 months back) to see what they had charged me. No where else in your account does it list your APR.

Also, ominously, my statement states:

To report billing errors,
write to this address or
complete the online form.
Calling will not preserve your rights.

Their automated system congratulated me for my access to ‘new buying power’ when they increased my credit limit last month. I totally should have used my computer voip phone to record this call. Well, anyway, I told them I had another card with an 8% rate and way lower limit and wanted to cancel this one. I let them ‘talk me into’ a lower limit and lower rate. Now, I have a limit of $1k and and a rate of 7% APR. I’m still not gonna use it, but you never know when an emergency might strike, I guess it’s good to have backup locked in a drawer at home. Now to just bamboozle my other backup source into a low-low APR down from their fucked up 17.99%. Tomorrow, I guess, for work is nigh upon me.

Today I blog about Chile, the country not the vegetable, and prostitution, the oldest profession. Adult prostitution is legal in Chile. Their sex workers are protected, and I’m honestly surprised they allow this as they are a very Christian nation. But, as the man in the article said “Everyone can do what they want, but if someone tells me that they’ll do something immoral … I’m not going to encourage it.”

I’m only mentioning this because a Chilean prostitute is donating the proceeds of 27 hours of “love” to a charity for poor, disabled children. She has raised $4,000.

In this country, prostitutes are beaten, killed, or jailed, and usually on drugs.

Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness indeed. Of course, this is more newsworthy than the stark American parallels with 1930s Germany.

Well, if you’re living in the east bay, anyway, you might have to clear out some poop, because you probably just felt a 5.6 richter earthquake.

Turns out it was just west of San Jose and Milpitas, a 5.6.

I’m still experimenting with this Wordpress thing, so pardon me if I fuck shit up to hell occasionally. I’ll probably be fiddling with the CSS and may from time to time break things. And I’m bad at backing things up so I usually end up fixing them the hard way.

ciao