Revco
I knew this was probably the last time I would see him, but that doesn't make this easy... goodbye Revco.
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I knew this was probably the last time I would see him, but that doesn't make this easy... goodbye Revco.
[earliest picture I could find]
Square’s service, which makes anyone with a smartphone into someone who can accept credit or debit cards, does not come free. You must pay it 2.75 percent of the transaction for the privilege of accepting plastic, though the person who swipes the card pays nothing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/your-money/why-its-so-hard-to-transfer-cash-to-your-friends-your-money.html?_r=1
Am I correct in thinking that most people would read this as "Square's fee is borne by the payee" and not as "Square makes the fee visible to the payee and hides it from the payer"? I see this kind of thing all over the place. It's not even conceptually coherent for a fee on a bilateral transaction to be imposed (by fiat) on one party or the other. What actually happens is that either the transaction no longer happens (because the fee is greater than the surplus value otherwise produced by the transaction) or the fee is split based on market conditions, not the intention of the entity imposing the fee. Yet I think people think Social Security and Medicare cost half as much as they do for the same reason (the arbitrary allocation of half of the payroll tax to "employer" and half to "employee").
Last night, my dad and I went to the Dallas Symphony. The pianist was ill, so the planned piano concerto was swapped out, making the program Beethoven's Fifth Symphony followed by Beethoven's Third Symphony.
Our seats were where the chorus sits for performances that have a chorus, behind the stage. The seats themselves were a bit uncomfortable (I wouldn't have wanted to sit in one for an hour straight) and we were significantly closer to the timpani than the audience on the normal side of the stage, making it louder than it should have been, but they were the cheapest seats in the house and the view was amazing—I was able to read the text and see that each performer's music stand had a copy of The Star-Spangled Banner permanently attached.
The conductor (Jaap van Zweden) didn't even use a score for the Fifth Symphony. He clearly knows it by heart—as, it turns out, do I. It was an incredible performance. After that, the Third Symphony was nice, but a bit of a let down—although I think just about anything would have been. I thought (and my dad also suggested this without my mentioning it to him) that they should have reversed the order of the pieces, even though it would have been a larger alteration to the program, because the Fifth was impossible to follow.
On the way to work this morning, I saw a bus with an ad on the side that said "If you don't answer the Census, we don't know how many buses to buy." This disturbs me for several reasons:
Facebook isn't Twitter, but Facebook does apparently have a limit of 3 SMS lengths. So I might as well post anything requiring thought here.