Most American banks charge a $35 dollar fee to transfer money to a foreign account, and that does not include the conversion fee. If you convert your money before your big trip so you don’t have to rely on cards for purchases, your bank could still charge you up to $20. If you try to convert… [Read more…]
May 13, 2012
The guy who kept a spreadsheet on the girls he met through online dating websites inspires me. To be fair to him, the girl who spread it around the net was a total bitch. There is nothing wrong with trying to stay organized. We do it with meetings, job interviews, friends, places we want to… [Read more…]
April 10, 2012
My three issues One: I’ve had a month to grow accustomed to this new layout and my main gripe isn’t with the layout itself; it’s with the inefficiency of editing previously added information and adjusting privacy settings. Take the option of adding trips via your virtual map. I added that I moved to Sanger, California… [Read more…]
April 9, 2012
My uncle works for a bank, a very prominent bank. He lives in a very large house, has a small collection of BMW and Porsche cars, and a sleek speed boat, which he bought after my cousin-in-law crashed the old one into a rock. They remodeled their backyard, with Greco-Roman style vases that pour water… [Read more…]
April 4, 2012
I pine - with the butterscotch smell of bark that tastes exactly the same, like a candy between my tongue and cheek, savoring as I knock it against my teeth. I am those christmas bristles, goose-pricked with all hairs standing at attention; a first-hand feeling of what it feels like to pine in secrecy, to… [Read more…]
April 4, 2012
I’ve read plenty of Facebook rants and online articles commenting on the ending of Mass Effect 3, mainly stating that the ending did not live up to the fans expectations and that their choices throughout the game meant nothing, as the ending was already written in stone. With a yin, there must be a yang,… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
I recently came across an article in the New York Times, written by Gary Gutting, questioning the value of higher education in today’s society. He argued that “colleges and universities are primarily vehicles for the preservation, development and transmission of our intellectual culture (scientific, humanistic and artistic)”. Otherwise, there is no point to these establishments.… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
Beautifully dilapidated, the smell uniquely rancid, and a ghost-town of its former-self is the simplest way to describe The Salton Sea, its current history steeped in rich environmental drama and political debate on the best way to bring back revenue to the “once-upon-a-time” desert mecca. While the history of the largest lake in California dates back… [Read more…]
May 16, 2012
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