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Dear IRS Person-Dude-Girl

Sometimes, it pays to check your bank statements when you file taxes. Anyway, I sent this letter along with my ‘06 tax payment. I thought you guys might enjoy it.

I totally am sorry I didn’t pay those taxes you graciously found for me. I’m sure looking through all those 1099s from companies vs. persons sucked. Whoever did that project probably got rather bored (srly, so boring). You could probably farm that out to India, I bet that would be cheap.

Well, you’re totally right, and I re-did everything in TurboTax ‘06 just to verify (they totally sent me a CD for a version I totally didn’t pay that much for, it was freakin’ aweseom, all next-day and everything!). But there is a small discrepancy, and I know how you gusy like to be exact. So, if you look at the attached forms of the original and re-done dealios (ie. 1040ez formz) you’ll see:

Original Refund: 4031.00
New Refund: 3048.00
Difference: 983.00
YOUR Difference: 984.00 (that doesn’t equal 983.00, trust me, I tried it out)

SO, then, I was like “how do they calculate that darn interest”. So I found forms 6601 and 6621, then I saw your crazy-ness interest rate changing (zomg man geese, make it easy on a guy). Once I found a calculator, it seemed my interest liability on the 983billz was $92.67. SOOOO

Difference: 983.00
Interest: 92.67
Total: 1075.67
YOUR Total: 1078.00 (not 1075.67, again, no-dice)

That’s like $3 difference (wait, sorry, $2.33), but I figure, since all I did was a 1040EZ I’d only be doing you a favor in finding a minute difference and making you read my sweet excuse letter. Since I’m sure my form was like, totally boring (other than I jumped that tax bracket on the new return, that was fun, huh? $468 so close! srsly, so close! roflcopters! I checked like 4 times, no joke… nothing like lolcatz, srsly, I swear by ceiling cat, so close!).

Anyway, if you feel/think/know/proclaim/prophesy/or-just-plain-don’t-like-me feel free to call me (redacted), or email me (redacted), or mail me (gross! don’t mail me!) to tell me I’m full of crap and should pay the $2.33. I promise, I totally won’t be mad, but I may itemize next year (yeah, probably not).

kthxbai

P.S. - Sorry the cat chewed on your form, she tends to eat mail that dips into her ‘nip budget, inorite, she should quit.

iTunes + Weezer (Red Album) = CDDB/Gracenote failure

So, the new (and awesome) Weezer album came out today. And the usually awesome album info+artwork of iTunes completely failed. Not only does their CDDB database not have the Red Album in it but in addition, after ripping the CD via Window Media Player, iTunes decides the BLUE album artwork is what it should show for the RED album. Sothatsnice. /rant

Christian Nudists Ahoy!

So, I wanted to go to yahoo groups, and instead of typing: groups.yahoo.com I typed "yahoo groups" into my handy-dandy FireFox google-search. Obviously the first result was my desired link, but what caught my attention was the first of the "site-links" that someone at google who knows who attached to groups.yahoo.com:

nudies2.png

So awesome.

Link because jimbot whined.

[Customer Service] Cox vs. Xbox Live FIGHT!

Total time taken and steps to remove $40 worth of monthly services from Cox Communications (Cable + Internet):
1. Verification of 2 types of personal information
2. Verification of cancellations
Total Time: ~2 minutes
Also, $30 in pro-rated services was credited back to me

Total time taken and steps to remove $7.99 of monthly services from Microsoft Xbox Live:
1. Voice activated menu to tsf to Cancellations
2. Verification of 1 type of personal information
3. Verification of cancellation
4. Verification of 5 more types of personal information
5. Reason for cancellation
6. On hold to transfer to Cancellations (I thought that’s where I was?!)
7. On hold again to tsf
8. On hold again to tsf
9. Verification of 2 types of personal information
10. Reason for cancellation
11. Arguing to get me to keep the service
12. Verification of cancellation
Total Time: 18 minutes and 45 seconds
Also, I can barely understand Indians, even if they call themselves Rachel or Oliver

Winner: Cox!

I guess even though we love to hate our cable bill, at least you can cancel it without it taking up almost 1/2 your lunch hour.

City of Irvine “Loud Party Notice” for … Rock Band!

Yes folks, the nerds have arrived. Tonight at 11:45pm I was served a “Loud Party Notice” for playing Rock Band! The conversation was as follows:

Coppa: You live here?
Rev: Yessir!
Coppa: You having a party in there?
Rev: Nooot really.
Coppa: How many people you got in there?
Rev: Four..
Coppa: Oh.. What are you doing in there?
Rev: … Playing a video game …
Coppa: Ah. Wellll
Rev: There is like.. a drum part that you sort of stomp on..
Coppa: Yeah, that was probably it!
Rev: …

Check out my swanky notice
Swanky Notice

Does this mean we’re cool now? I’m not sure.