All Good Things

Bah, end of the 4-day mini vacation from work. But this thursday is my first real pay cheque. I'll try not to hyperventilate too hard.

Alas I must away to bed. I will doze off in hopes of dreams of fat boys with hairy chests and dazzling english skills.

It's a "feature"!

According to Livejournal labeling links for alternate user agent compatibility causes irrepairable syntax errors. That's really great they have this new feature but totally sucks if you're, say, sight impaired and use a screen reader.

Not that I have any dis-abled readers that I know about. But it's a service I try to provide at least symbolically for the sake of posterity.

Student Debt and Student Responsibility - September at the University and the Supermarket

I hate to say the co-relation between organic produce, extravagent exotic grains, pastas and funky types of tea to Student Visa cards is really kinda irrefutable. I love how they pay a 200% mark-up on produce but then bring their own bags. Of course it's not about saving money, really. It's about image and maybe perhaps some sort of peripheral environmental concern.

In the three weeks leading up to classes at McMaster I've had but one studenty looking person come and pay with change. And to be honest it was nice to see a young person living like a pauper instead of some naïve credit toting proto-yuppie. I mean what an individual!

I guess it just burns my biscuits that I'm working my butt off and am told that it's unlikely I can get any sort of credit, even though I have two sources of income. But these kids three years my junior are basically given lines of credit which they will abuse with luxury items like premium groceries and then protest the "opressive" banks for their "massive" debt.

Tuition prices ought to be lower. However I really don't think that is always the whole story.