Son of a gun: Save-on-Foods can't do math

It appears Save-On's POS system has an option for "SOM SAVINGS-RET" built-in for people who wants to do a price adjustment for forgetting their Save-On More card. However, the system doesn't adjust for taxes! I thought the amount I got back was odd but it didn't hit me right away what was wrong. I hope the federal government spends the 5 cents I donated wisely.

But this does bring up the point that once the HST kicks in, people will need to be more careful--12% is a lot higher than the 5% that I lost today.

On another thought, I got a free cash advance because I paid by credit but the cashier gave me cash. Come to think of it, I think it's possible that the cashier just looked at the "You could have saved $1.00" line on the receipt and just keyed that into the system as my refund. If so then Save-On's has bad training and not a dumb POS system.

To wrap it all up though, I found a 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo on the ground on the way home. No racy pictures on the stick though (DAMN!!!). So overall it was a good day even though I lost 5 cents.

EDIT:
OMG I just realized because of my MBNA smart cash, my net loss from this transaction is actually 0.

I think I'll start an Exam 6 study log. It will encourage me to write more on my blog and I have never logged myself while studying. This should be an interesting experience; I wonder how I will feel about all the hours I devoted to this exam in the end. So far this Exam 6 looks VERY intimidating. Just by glancing over the articles on the syllabus there are definitely more than one thousand pages of material.

Exam 6 progress:
-sources gathered: 4/30
-sources read: 0/30

Watches that cannot be used to tell time

In this day and age, a watch is useless. Face it, when you have a phone or an iPod (because there really is no other MP3 player), why the heck does one need to carry a ribbon on their wrist to tell time?! It's absolutely absurd.

And now they have watches that you can barely use to tell time. For example, http://www.01theone.com/products/zerone/ or http://www.nixonnow.com/watches/mens/the-rotolog-A028.html

Really. WTF.

Couples Retreat - 1/5

The key flaw of this film is that it went all over the place and lacks focus; it doesn't know what the heck it wants to say nor how to say it. Thankfully Veronica Mars is in there to provide some eye candy. Oh Veronica, how I miss thee :'(.

The flaw is apparent right from the start of the film. It opens with a blatant Apple advertisement, pokes fun at American consumerism, and then nose dives to having a Mac user doing a slide show in Powerpoint. The editing and direction throughout the entire film is extremely awkward, and the film would have benefited by cutting at least one couple out of it--I recommend taking out the obnoxious black threesome.

The premise of the story is that four couples are going to a resort to sort out their marriage troubles, or lack thereof. Each couple represents an unique quirk for the film to explore, which it sort of does. It manufactures odd scenes where the couples opine about marriage, and then jumps to cheap laughs like a yoga teacher dry humping one of the woman.

As much as the script tries to be hip, it comes out being extremely flat, and again, awkward. Why the heck would you have a ex-high school football star mutter a computer simile when you have a video game producer and a Powerpoint junkie standing next to him? For a screenplay that has already forgone the "show, don't tell" rule, I found the script to be woefully inadequate.

It is no surprise then that the film had no idea how to end itself, other then by having Veronica Mars strip down to a bikini after sipping some mystery coconut drink.

OMG I used exam knowledge today

I actually used something I learned in the CSP exam today at work. I'm wowed and amazed; SOA exams taught me which reserve basis one is supposed to use to calculate IIT.

End of SOA Exams

As of September 12, 2009, my affair with SOA exams has finally ended.

RIP; May 25, 2006 - September 12, 2009.

LOL @ Atkinson & Dallas

To everyone who are gutsy enough to write FSA exams and touch the tome known as Atkinson & Dallas: remember to read the foreword. It's a hoot.