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Deposit checks with your iPhone? Lucky Chase and USAA people!

Who thought this day was going to actually come. After reading the USA TODAY article, I still don’t really believe it, and won’t really get a sense of how ridiculously amazing it is until I actually do it.
Essentially, with the JPMorganChase app, you take a picture of the front and back of the check that [...]

The Guatemala sinkhole

The sinkhole in Guatemala  that swallowed a three-story building today. It kind of looks surreal and out of a movie, Men in Black maybe. Just the fact that it’s so deep and so perfectly circular makes it seem in some ways man-made even though it isnt.
Sinkholes are natural depressions that can form when water-saturated soil [...]

Good Obama things happen when I’m abroad.

1) January 20, 2009 —-Stayed up and watched Obama’s inauguration in Tokyo, Japan in my hotel room at 2:30am.
2) March 23, 2010 —-Came back from hot pot (2nd dinner) and watched Obama sign the historical Health Care Reform bill on the television in my hotel room in Shanghai.

Pomona College student detained because he had Arabic flash cards

I know this is old news, but when I had dinner with Molly, Audrey and Lea last week at Molly’s place in SF, Audrey told me that this guy is a Pomona  College student! I had no idea!
via LA Times
Arabic-language flashcards don’t fly with TSA
A Pomona College student from Philadelphia was jailed after airport security [...]

Pomona Workers deserve the right to stand up for their rights

Thank you Alex Tischenko for spreading the word and informing us alumni about this very important issue.
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION OF SUPPORT and write a letter to President Oxtoby.
Read more about it here.

Hello President Oxtoby,
As a graduate of Pomona in 2007, the first graduating class that you have seen through 4 years of schooling, I [...]

Free Frequent Flyer Miles courtesy of the U.S. Mint

One of my favorite things to read about is how people find a loophole in a system to get what they want. A coworker of mine told me about this at our holiday party this past weekend, so I decided I would investigate further.
Individuals used the “free shipping” $1 coin program of the U.S. Mint [...]

BABIES – Coming in 2010

I absolutely cannot wait to see this movie. Seriously, whose brilliant idea was this?

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