Everbank Wants Money Before Approving App?!!

Time to open a new CD and it's such a hassle to do these things I went for a five year. The highest rate I could get in on was at Everbank so I applied on a Saturday.

At the end of the process, it lists one Required Item, a signature card to be mailed or faxed. Once I clicked on the card to download it, the item got checked off. As downloaded? As completed? Who knows? There aren't any definitive instructions. Besides, last time I applied for an account, they required a signature card after they approved my application and sent me materials. So I think I should wait for approval before doing anything.

Tuesday, I chat online with a rep who tells me to wait, it takes 2-3 business days for approval and I shouldn't do anything until then. Thursday, I get anxious and chat with another rep. This one says I have to send in the signature card before they bother processing my application at all! Plus it takes 3-5 days instead of 2-3. Wow, thanks for wasting all those days for me!

Just to check, I chat with a third rep to get a consensus. Yep, I was supposed to have sent in the signature card. Oh, and if I like I can also send in all of my money with it. How wonderful! Of course I'd love to send in all of my money without knowing whether or not you'll approve my application. Why, if an unscrupulous employee rejects my app, he or she can go ahead and cash my check out for themselves too! Why not?

Um, no thanks, Everbank. You just lost my potential business. I'll go for the next best rate at a completely different bank. It's only .01% less interest.

Avira, Why Do You Punish Me!?!

For a recent update, I need to download ~3 MB of stuff which gets installed (Not!) before I can download ~14 MB more to install. Only my Internet connection is absolute crap and dies before getting through the 14 MB. Which might have been fine, but it turns out the first 3 MB hasn't been installed after all! It needs to be redownloaded before I can try for the 14 MB again. Do I want to know if there's more beyond the 14 MB? Maybe 66 MB in mathematical sequence? Will I ever find out? Stay tuned...

Or you try it and tell me:
AVIRA AntiVirus Premium 2013

Buy a HOT Phone for $0 Down! Amazing Holiday Present!

An amazing deal for everyone but the giftee, all right. You "buy" a present for nothing, the carrier gets a new customer, and the manufacturer sells more models. What does the giftee get? A big fat monthly phone bill!

Oh wait, did they mean for you to pay the phone bill too? Isn't it enough you gave the phone? Besides, you're not ready for that kind of commitment!

$5 off $35 Amazon.com credit!

$5 off ANY purchase of $35 or more promotional credit valid to use on Amazon.com (excludes Kindle devices, digital downloads and gift card purchases), valid through 11:59 PM PST on December 15th, 2013! Sign in to see your Wishlists or create one, answer the question “What are you most wishing for this holiday season?”, and share to Facebook. The $5 will automatically be applied to your account. Quantities are limited!

Fine Print: Upon completion of the “Share & Claim” action, a $5 off $35 or more promotional credit will be automatically applied to your Amazon account. Promotional credits must be redeemed by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 15, 2013. This promotion is available to customers located and with billing addresses in the United States. Limit one promotional credit per customer. Quantity is limited.

So much for my Black Friday/Cyberweek shopping being done...

Spider-Man 1967 - Ouches and ughs

• You can tell a villian by his color - Starting in the second season, the villians literally have green skin. No one bothered asking if they were OK or even space aliens. Maybe no one cared or they were too afraid. Or maybe the 60's were a happy time full of love and equality for people of all colors, even possible aliens from outer space! But shouldn't they have cared then? Hey, dude, you gonna puke? You well enough to rob a bank/destroy the city/conquer the world?

• Spidey needs a chiropractor - If you watch him run toward you or across the screen or anywhere really, you'd see that the poor guy moves kind of funny. And I don't mean like a spider, or a human spider or anything that should be remotely natural-ish. It's really painful to watch. The same thing goes for his walking, crawling, sneaking, some web swinging... Heck, his smoothest move is the stripper pole spin. Wonder why that is?

• Recycled creatures everywhere! - Or maybe every villian/nasty environment gets their monsters from the same rental place? Spidey finds the same creatures on a far off island, deep within the Earth and even in other dimensions. Yet everytime he seems surprised and has to figure out how to fight them all over again.

• The wonders of webbing - He can weave airtight ship sails  but his parachutes let through more than fishnet stockings. I guess he hasn't yet learned to webzip to bypass that endless scurrying. Then again, that scurrying - and endless swinging - sure helped them waste a lot of time/save money on animation.

• Paging Daredevil - Could have sworn I saw the guy all in red standing on a dark nighttime rooftop. Oh, my bad, that was Spidey!

• Ladies love a nerd! - For a hopeless socially-challenged, perpetually late, plans-cancelling nerd, this Peter sures attracts a lot of ladies.

• Mysterio unfishbowled! - Since when has Mysterio ever appeared in his villain costume sans fishbowl head? Apparently here!

• They really phoned it in towards the end of the series with lame stories using badly recut footage from previous episodes. Thank goodness it finally ended.

See what you think:Spider-Man - The '67 Collection (6 Volume Animated Set)

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Cold Cereal = Kibble for Humans?

I'm eating cereal the other day and suddenly think, "Wait a minute, isn't this like kibble?" It's a (mostly) grain product full of vitamins and minerals. And we're trained to think of it as a whole meal or the main part of balanced meal.

Some of it's even shaped the same way. There's amorphous nuggets, balls, "treasure chests" which look like squared nuggets with two pinched waists to me (is there a message in there?). There's even Scooby Snacks! OK, now I want to try these snacks; there must be something to them to turn a scaredy dog into a mighty dog.

Here's to being trained to eat processed foods full of nutrients!