VOTEorNOT redux

Four people signed up for VOTEorNOT through my referral last week. (Thank you!)

I told the OH this and his response was "nya, nya, i've got five. ;-)" He got his sign-ups by posting to panix.chat. I figured I would see if my LiveJournal community can beat his panix.chat community (all in the name of promoting democracy, of course).

My referral link: http://smz9z8.VOTEorNOT.org

Once again, the annoying, US-centric details about VOTEorNOT are:

VOTE or NOT? - www.voteornot.org
Jim and James, the founders of HOT or NOT, are throwing this sweepstakes to encourage people to participate in democracy!

The sweepstakes winner will receive $100,000 from Jim. James will give
away another $100,000 to the person who referred the winner.

Please remind your friends to register by referring them.
And remember, if they win, you win too!

VOTEorNOT redux

Four people signed up for VOTEorNOT through my referral last week. (Thank you!)

I told the OH this and his response was "nya, nya, i've got five. ;-)" He got his sign-ups by posting to panix.chat. I figured I would see if my LiveJournal community can beat his panix.chat community (all in the name of promoting democracy, of course).

My referral link: http://smz9z8.VOTEorNOT.org

Once again, the annoying, US-centric details about VOTEorNOT are:

VOTE or NOT? - www.voteornot.org
Jim and James, the founders of HOT or NOT, are throwing this sweepstakes to encourage people to participate in democracy!

The sweepstakes winner will receive $100,000 from Jim. James will give
away another $100,000 to the person who referred the winner.

Please remind your friends to register by referring them.
And remember, if they win, you win too!

Bad customer service hall of fame

I'm trying to learn Japanese on my own, and I borrowed some Pimsleur language tapes from the library. The Pimsleur tapes teach a language entirely by ear. I'm normally pretty bad at learning languages, but I tend to learn well by ear and I found this a really good method for me to get familiar with some of the basics of the language, although I'm sure I could never get anywhere near fluent with it.

Anyway, the library only has part 1 of the complete program of 6 parts. Pimsleur courses are extremely expensive to buy, around $400-$600, but I found an audio book company, Recorded Books, that rents the tapes. Because one of the tapes from the library was faulty, I ordered part 1 from Recorded Books. Although there was a backorder on it for a few days, I received it eventually, and listened to the faulty tape, and finished part 1, and all was well.

Then I ordered part 2 from Recorded Books. Again, there's a short backorder, but finally it comes. So I put the first tape in to listen to it. Uh oh. It's actually part 1. The box says part 2, but all the tapes inside are from part 1.
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Bad customer service hall of fame

I'm trying to learn Japanese on my own, and I borrowed some Pimsleur language tapes from the library. The Pimsleur tapes teach a language entirely by ear. I'm normally pretty bad at learning languages, but I tend to learn well by ear and I found this a really good method for me to get familiar with some of the basics of the language, although I'm sure I could never get anywhere near fluent with it.

Anyway, the library only has part 1 of the complete program of 6 parts. Pimsleur courses are extremely expensive to buy, around $400-$600, but I found an audio book company, Recorded Books, that rents the tapes. Because one of the tapes from the library was faulty, I ordered part 1 from Recorded Books. Although there was a backorder on it for a few days, I received it eventually, and listened to the faulty tape, and finished part 1, and all was well.

Then I ordered part 2 from Recorded Books. Again, there's a short backorder, but finally it comes. So I put the first tape in to listen to it. Uh oh. It's actually part 1. The box says part 2, but all the tapes inside are from part 1.
( Read more... )