Dialed 800-528-4800 for American Express and spoke to Ash (ID#: 52899) about our account because I noticed finance charges in the hundreds.
Apparently, missing the payment deadline in January jumped our interest up from a 0% APR to _29.24%_.
Oh noes!
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Engage indignant fury. Asked Ash to reverse it. […]
Category Archives: Culture
Engage Indignant Fury
February 16, 2008 – 8:51 pm
Garrison Keillor on Quitting
July 17, 2007 – 9:56 am
Worth sharing:
They voted ten to four not to do the senior class play, which went against everything they’ve been brought up with: never to quit, never to quit. Never, ever give up.
And they found out then, the reason you should never quit or give up is because when you do, it won’t […]
Good Coffee, Strong Coffee
March 3, 2007 – 1:28 pm
Sometimes, it’s like this:
People in this town drink too much
coffee. They’re jumpy all the time. You
see them drinking out of their big plastic
mugs while they’re driving. They cut in
front of you, they steal your parking places.
Teenagers in the cemeteries knocking over
tombstones are slurping café au lait.
Recycling men hanging onto their trucks are
sipping espresso. Dogcatchers running […]
Podcast Beta
January 28, 2007 – 10:12 pm
Okay, it might not be called Ironworks Gang when it’s done (even if it would be a nice nod to Steve Gillmor), but here it is, the inaugural podcast. In this week’s episode I was joined by ??Tom Wilkinson??, the soon-to-be-famous movie writer/director, and ??Darin Pesnell??, soon-to-be-famous pastor. The model is this: get […]
On the Radar: Giving the blog some love again
July 27, 2006 – 9:15 pm
* ??Mark Glaser?? for ??PBS??: “Should Community-Edited News Sites Pay Top Editors?”:http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/07/digging_deepershould_community.html (via “Digg”:http://digg.com/tech_news/Kevin_Rose_Responds_to_Jason_Calacanis_Rant_from_Netscape → “Kevin”:http://krose.typepad.com/kevinrose/2006/07/calacanis.html → “Jason”:http://www.calacanis.com/2006/07/25/kevin-rose-cracks-or-how-to-know-when-youve-won-the-debate/). Aside from the Digg vs. Netscape drama that’s been erupting over the past couple of weeks, Calacanis raises some interesting questions about how people in the *attention economy* are compensated for their time and hard work. […]
