They only take too much if you set up your withholding incorrectly. I owe every year, on purpose. It's basically a free loan from the government at zero interest.
The Government needs my money for a while. That and if you own a house deducting your mortgage interest gives you BIG money back.
This is a good thing. PennSays and PennPoint got really hard to watch after a while without someone to balance him out.
Yeah, I found myself really missing Goudeau as well, for several reasons. Also, not a big fan of Penn using a handheld camera to film himself (though Penn Point was much more tolerable than Penn Says).
So I bought my plane tickets for PAX today. I tweeted about buying my tickets with using @JetBlue as well as saying, "Also @JetBlue please don't let me see a cheaper sale after I just purchased the tickets. I really don't want to get that feeling of remorse." Because I know they have really good one day specials every now and then.
They send me a PM saying, "If you see the exact same flight/same day go down, give us a call and we will honor the lower fare with a JetBlue credit. Hope that helps! "
Seriously. I don't really know how other airlines operate, but within a few hours I get a response. I normally don't expect anything, but it really doesn't surprise me too much since they helped me out last year when I booked the wrong dates for PAX East and gave me a $200 credit.
I have no idea. I just go directly to their site. If you select Travel Deals, they have some decent deals going on right now, but nothing that would have benefited me.
Plus they don't have a First Class section, just a "more leg room section" for an extra $50. You don't need it though, because my boyfriend has the longest legs and when we flew Jet Blue last year he was amazed and how much room he had in the normal seats. It has never happened with other airlines.
I have also had companies help me out over Twitter, which is nice. It goes both ways, though. I once had the head software developer for Sibelius trying to pick a fight after complaining that their program was too expensive.
I have also had companies help me out over Twitter, which is nice. It goes both ways, though. I once had the head software developer for Sibelius trying to pick a fight after complaining that their program was too expensive.
son, i wwebsite as on the internet when you were a sperm in your daddys balls!
I once had the head software developer for Sibelius trying to pick a fight after complaining that their program was too expensive.
Now for a more serious comment on the subject - This is kind of an inherent problem with pro-tool sort of software. Adobe has a similar issue. When you have such a small, niche market for your software, it pretty much has to be expensive for the developer to be able to profit. It sucks for people like you who are hobbyists or indie artists and don't have that sort of cash, but I think it's an unfortunate reality of the situation.
When you have such a small, niche market for your software
Is it not fair to say that, were this actually the case, Avid and Adobe wouldn't be such huge companies? They charge so much because they are industry-standards, and not only that, but there have effectively no competition because theirs is the only software worth a damn. They aren't niche by any stretch of the imagination, either, especially in the age where everyone has a DeviantArt page and everyone wants to be a DJ, and not only that, but the CAN be because all it takes is a decent computer.
[Edit] I should clarify that I wasn't tweeting directly @ Sibelius or tagging them in any way, just musing to myself about how I couldn't afford to pay for Sibellius and the developer dude tried to convince me that I could.
So I bought my plane tickets for PAX today. I tweeted about buying my tickets with using @JetBlue as well as saying, "Also @JetBlue please don't let me see a cheaper sale after I just purchased the tickets. I really don't want to get that feeling of remorse." Because I know they have really good one day specials every now and then.
They send me a PM saying, "If you see the exact same flight/same day go down, give us a call and we will honor the lower fare with a JetBlue credit. Hope that helps! "
More and more companies are offering really good online customer service through Twitter. Verizon has been really good, too. It's often WAY faster than waiting on the phone.
My not-crazy-but-actually-awesome roommate knocked on my door today to show me a costume she had made for someone YEARS ago that had been returned. Apparently the commission was paid in full, but the customer was unhappy with how much skin it showed and refused to wear it. HOWEVER, the costume fits me perfectly and is of a character I've kind of backburner wanted to cosplay: Noel Vermillion from BlazBlue. It's missing boot-covers, gloves, and a hat... but nothing I can't manage. We're talking about fixing it up together, getting one really good photoshoot in, and then selling it on coscom.
In unrelated boo-yahs, I've made cupcakes from scratch twice in one week with two different awesome friends, AND I'm ahead in pretty much all of my classes. I was the first to finish my mock-up for the fancy Victorian ballgown I'm making for The Elephant Man, and this time around I'm making a costume for a MAIN CHARACTER, not a side character! That, and my Scene Design professor liked my designs and has given me permission to keep going whereas she's making the rest of the class rework their's.
AND AND AND! Crazy roommate is moving out. Either now, or in a few months... depending on how things go. This will mean I'll either have to find new roommates AGAIN, or a new place to live, but EH. Small sacrifices.
In my Digital Video Arts II class today. I, and the rest of the DVA II classmates, were taken aside by my professor and told about this really big project she has put together independent of the class. She has collaborated with both this trippy avant-garde filmmaker and a professional opera director. The director is holding this performance of freaky opera called Pierrot Lunaire, which consists of 21 different poems being sung in a performance.
They have come to Erika (my professor) because they also want to use a gigantic projector to project accompanying video artwork (animation, live-action, stop-motion, cut-outs, and other similar kinds of art) alongside the opera. She has chosen all the members of the DVA II class, which includes myself, and many members of her other video class she teaches at ECA (Educational Center for the Arts) to undertake this project. All of us need to make some kind of video art for each one of the 21 poems.
This is really exciting and it is the first time any of my work will be seen by an actual audience.
Learning more about proteins today. Pretty sure I know what I want to do with my life. It entails significantly less money and significantly more work, but I'll enjoy myself more in the end.
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My graphics card only supports two screens at once so I have to turn one off when using my TV. #FirstWorldProblems
Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau and a chorus
Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau
Michael Goudeau
They send me a PM saying, "If you see the exact same flight/same day go down, give us a call and we will honor the lower fare with a JetBlue credit. Hope that helps! "
Seriously. I don't really know how other airlines operate, but within a few hours I get a response. I normally don't expect anything, but it really doesn't surprise me too much since they helped me out last year when I booked the wrong dates for PAX East and gave me a $200 credit.
Jet Blue is the best.
Plus they don't have a First Class section, just a "more leg room section" for an extra $50. You don't need it though, because my boyfriend has the longest legs and when we flew Jet Blue last year he was amazed and how much room he had in the normal seats. It has never happened with other airlines.
[Edit] I should clarify that I wasn't tweeting directly @ Sibelius or tagging them in any way, just musing to myself about how I couldn't afford to pay for Sibellius and the developer dude tried to convince me that I could.
HOWEVER, the costume fits me perfectly and is of a character I've kind of backburner wanted to cosplay: Noel Vermillion from BlazBlue.
It's missing boot-covers, gloves, and a hat... but nothing I can't manage. We're talking about fixing it up together, getting one really good photoshoot in, and then selling it on coscom.
In unrelated boo-yahs, I've made cupcakes from scratch twice in one week with two different awesome friends, AND I'm ahead in pretty much all of my classes. I was the first to finish my mock-up for the fancy Victorian ballgown I'm making for The Elephant Man, and this time around I'm making a costume for a MAIN CHARACTER, not a side character! That, and my Scene Design professor liked my designs and has given me permission to keep going whereas she's making the rest of the class rework their's.
AND AND AND! Crazy roommate is moving out. Either now, or in a few months... depending on how things go. This will mean I'll either have to find new roommates AGAIN, or a new place to live, but EH. Small sacrifices.
It's been a pretty damn good day.
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=180
They have come to Erika (my professor) because they also want to use a gigantic projector to project accompanying video artwork (animation, live-action, stop-motion, cut-outs, and other similar kinds of art) alongside the opera. She has chosen all the members of the DVA II class, which includes myself, and many members of her other video class she teaches at ECA (Educational Center for the Arts) to undertake this project. All of us need to make some kind of video art for each one of the 21 poems.
This is really exciting and it is the first time any of my work will be seen by an actual audience.