Today's Google URL

If you are frustrated in your criminal activities, perhaps not to adept at, say, opening safes, Google is your friend, as noted here.

Today's Have a Modern Home with USB URL

Today we have two products that, in connecting to your computer via its USB ports (which you all have, I'm sure) will make your life happier and more productive.

First up we have something that, used judiciously, might allow you (as a manager at work) to determine who's working and who's not.

( Next up, behind the cut and possibly NSFW )

Today's comic strip URL

In the late 1940's someone at Life magazine thought it would be amusing to get comic strip artists to draw their characters first normally, then blindfolded. The results are shown here, and it's quite amusing.

Today's Ticklebox Repair story

Now, I'm sure that if I googled for this one I'd find it all over the 'web. However, I saw it in a friend-of-a-friend post and shamelessly nicked it for my blog. So sew me.

Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is so priceless, and so so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today.

A lady died this past January, and Cxtxbank billed her for February, March and April for their annual service charges on her credit card, and added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now it was somewhere around $90.00.

A family member placed a call to Cxtxbank. Here is the exchange:

Family Member: "I am calling to tell you she died in January."

Cxtxbank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."

Family Member: "Maybe, you should turn it over to collections."

Cxtxbank: "Since it is three months past due, it already has been."

Family Member: So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?"

Cxtxbank: "Either report her account to frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!"

Family Member: " Do you think God will be mad at her?"

Cxtxbank: "Excuse me?"

Family Member : "Did you just get what I was telling you - the part about her being dead?"

Cxtxbank : "Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor."

Supervisor gets on the phone:

Family Member: "I'm calling to tell you, she died in January."

Cxtxbank: "The account was never closed and late fees and charges still apply." (This must be a phrase taught by the bank!)

Family Member: "You mean you want to collect from her estate?"

Cxtxbank: (Stammer) "Are you her lawyer?"

Family Member : "No, I'm her great nephew." (Lawyer info given)

Cxtxbank: "Could you fax us a certificate of death?"

Family Member : "Sure." (Fax number is given) After they get the fax:

Cxtxbank: "Our system just isn't set up for death. I don't know what more I can do to help."

Family Member: "Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. I don't think she will care."

Cxtxbank: "Well, the late fees and charges do still apply." (What is wrong with these people?!?

Family Member: "Would you like her new billing address?"

Cxtxbank: "That might help."

Family Member: "Odessa Memorial Cemetery, Highway 129, Plot Number 69."

Cxtxbank: "Sir, that's a cemetery!"

Family Member: "What do you do with dead people on your planet?