i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
8:07 PM: i wish the weather would make up its mind. oh, wait. no, i don't.
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learn something new every day: apparently, "the [credit card] rate charged to the merchant varies depending on a number of factors such as whether the card was present at the time of the transaction (versus online or phone), whether it was swiped versus imprinted, whether it was validated online at the time of the transaction, etc." (thanks, carl zetie!) i think it's interesting because i never thought of using something like that to encourage changing technologies, like from imprinted to swipe cards, or from stored to real-time online transactions.
in other news, michaelmas got his keys to 306 today! :D and plans have been finalized for the tuscon trip may 11-17 (sven's brother shield is graduating from the university of arizona on may 15).