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Last day to file taxes0
chris lin posted in Finance, Personal on April 15th, 2008

I never understood why people always wait til today to file their taxes. I mean, from what the news indicates it seems to be a majority of people always waits until the last week to file their taxes. Once I recieve my forms from my employers, I like to file for taxes right away. There is less stress on me, I get my refund within 2 weeks and I do not need to worry about April 15th. I also understand those who do not receive their forms due to their incompetent employers but it still seems like a lot of people just like to wait until the last few days to do their taxes.

I procrastinate on anything except when it affects me financially. Maybe my prospective will change once I have a family to take care of.

NVIDIA to Intel, stop.0
chris lin posted in News, Technology on April 14th, 2008

We're going to open a can of whoop ass

Said by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang of NVIDIA regarding the situation of Intel trying to enter graphics market.

My god, our bodies are amazing0
chris lin posted in Personal, School on April 14th, 2008

I was heading to class (the class I am in now, so much for paying attention), I read the paper and noticed that junior Laef Barnes broke the 4 minute mark for running a mile. Think about that for a second, if you ever ran around a lap, you'll know that doing it under one minute is pretty insane. That's every 15 seconds, he runs a quarter of the lap. I can't get over mymind how fast that is which is probably why only 307 Americans have broken that mark.

Citi’s Driver Edge Credit Card is Awesome0
chris lin posted in Finance, Personal on April 11th, 2008

So I was going through my finances like I do every few days, since I don't really keep an actual written budget (more like its in my head, I am pretty good with that sort of stuff) and I noticed I got a DE SERVICE CREDIT on my credit card in in the amount of 50.xx. After thinking about it, I remember it was probably due to the service rebate form I sent in two weeks back.

First of all, how it works is basically any kind of car service you perform on your registered vehicle on the card, as long as you fill out a form and send in your receipts (which you'll never get back), they will credit you for the full amount sans tax. Basically, free car service. In my case, I got an oil change and it came out to be 53.xx with tax included. For some reason, i thought they would only refund a certain percentage but apparently they refund you the whole amount and I cannot find any sort of maximum cap anywhere.

Next time I go get my 15k or 30k service, I am definitely charging it onto this card. Plus, the 6% gas rebates for the first year isn't as bad since I use gas so much.

Ipods, even retards can use it0
chris lin posted in Personal on April 7th, 2008

Bush: Put it in my pocket, got the ear things on.

This is President Bush, talking about ipod, explaining how he puts his ear things on. What the christ.

Follow the rules of the road!0
chris lin posted in Personal on April 4th, 2008

I hate it when people lack the common sense which usually ends up screwing others (ex: me). This morning when I was heading towards the bus from home, I was standing at a major intersection (Wilshire blvd/Westwood blvd) when I see this Ford F150 take a left turn lane from Wilshire onto Westwood. Problem with that was there was no space so it was in the middle of the intersection blocking two lanes on Wilshire. That usually wouldn't be a problem but the left turn light just turned red and now the lights on Wilshire turned green allowing people to move through the intersection. But wait, two lanes can't!

Now we have this F150 blocking two lanes of traffic, essentially preventing around 20 or so cars in both lanes from being able to cross before the truck itself was able to get out of the intersection since the street it was going to be on moved on. Now I see this often and I just realize by having that happen to that intersection every once in a while, it can cause cars to pile up when they could've freely moved through.

God, I hate LA traffic.

I wish some things were true on April Fools0
chris lin posted in News on April 1st, 2008

For example, Google announced Project Virgle which is a joint project with Virgin to create the first color on Mars. That would be so cool if it were real