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Buffy! Right, so, I completely don't get why you peopel say I'm going to identify with the character, but I looooooooooooooooove Wesley. Also, loved that they made Xander losing his virginity a plot point as opposed to "we only make drama about this for the female characters." Does Giles ever get to be happy or is his life one tragic annoyance after another? I feel bad for the guy. Buffy/Faith - hot hot hot hot hot hot hot.

While we're on those subjects, here's a sentence I never need to see again. Seriously, I don't care what the fandom is, but STOP WRITING THIS SENTENCE: "His young lover was nothing if not imaginative." I hate that sentence.

There is finally a Twitter app for my mobile, which means when I tweet from whereever, I can finally see your replies.

So today, I assume, will come the WhoYork announcement that didn't come yesterday. I've already figured out what it is (and am more excited than is remotely reasonable) and just wish it would be official already so I can squee squee squee all the way home. ETA: Now it can be told! RUSSELL TOVEY, kids! March 7!

CNN showcases "amazingly tiny" home offices, that, as a native New Yorker, look perfectly normal to me.

The new gay theater.

Target cancer, the first in a series of articles from the New York Times that continues all week.

Things that really really annoy me: bodegas where the cash machines are out of order and there's a minimum (which is illegal) to use your credit or debit card. I'm calling 311 on someone RIGHT NOW.

redstapler sent me this, if you click on it, you will get nothing done today: sushi cat.

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Hooray for a Twitter app! (Will you be live-tweeting Gally panels this time, or just IMing as before?)

there's a minimum (which is illegal) to use your credit or debit card.

I didn't know about the illegal bit; I've seen such minimums elsewhere and thought it was standard procedure, and probably understandable considering the way credit card companies are wont to rip off vendors as well as customers. ATMs being out of order is a major problem, however.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe I'll do it for one of John Fay's panels, but probably not. It sort of only worked as a format for the cracky cracky Kai and Gareth show.

[ambyr.livejournal.com]

It's not precisely -illegal-, which is to say it's not like there's a law against it. But it -does- violate the agreements vendors are required to sign with the credit card companies in order to accept credit cards. They're just counting on no one reporting them to Visa or Mastercard, and on the card companies being too busy to deal with it if someone does.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about the illegal bit; I've seen such minimums elsewhere and thought it was standard procedure, and probably understandable considering the way credit card companies are wont to rip off vendors as well as customers.

A now-closed coffee shop that my dad invested in went cash-only because of those fees. Looking back, that was probably a sign that the place wouldn't last, unfortunately. Can there be other ways to deal with the fees? I'm the wrong one to ask, I have no business sense. And even people with business sense don't seem sure of a way to deal.

[ckd]

I have seen some places with signs requesting a minimum, on the grounds that they can't actually require one but that they'd like their customers to know that small card transactions cost them too much.

I don't have a problem with that, and will (unless I'm out of cash and desperate) respect those requests.