- Go to Jewel, preferably during a busy time. Saturday afternoon works well.
- Walk to the liquor section. Select your favorite variety of beer, wine, or spirits.
- Go to the self checkout line.
- Wait for the Jewel employee in charge of the self checkout area to become distracted. This happens regularly.
- Scan the alcohol. The system will say that approval is needed.
- Approval is not needed. Swipe your credit card.
- The system will exit out of the “needs approval” screen and into the “choose your payment type” screen.
- Finish paying.
- Walk out.
I’m 90% certain the system works this way. I’ll try it again next time I’m at the grocery store. Have fun, teenagers.
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The tip first. If you live in Chicago and use the “L,” you might be famliar with Ed Kinittel’s CTA map. I’m a big fan. But what you might not be familiar with is the Firefox search engine add-on, written by Clay Smith, which adds the map as a search option in the top-right browser search box. You can just type in “900 n michigan” and forget the “chicago, il.” I like it.
And the hassle. Why is script debugging a pain to enable/disable in IE? This is the kind of thing I want to enable/disable via a hotkey, or at least a button. Why has no one created an add-on for it?
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I picked up a useful bit of information this morning. Did you know that you don’t have to burn an ISO image to CD/DVD to access its files? Instead, you can mount the image as a local drive. This is handy because (a) you don’t have to wait to burn the image, (b) you don’t have to waste a DVD/CD, and (c) it’s faster because the files are accessed off the hard drive, not the CD/DVD drive.
Since more and more apps are downloadable as ISOs, I think this will be useful.
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It’s true. Our relationship has lost the “magic.”
She used to impress me. She really did. I loved how she could always tell me something new. Our relationship was so exciting, so invigorating. She constantly introduced me to new people. She knew all the cool places, all the right people.
But let’s face it: she’s overrated. I overestimated her. For one, I know she’s been fooling around on me. I don’t think anyone could keep her attention for very long. But even worse, she’s just gotten sort of boring. I feel like we have the same conversation over and over and over again. Sometimes I think to myself, “is this the same woman I was infatuated with?”
Not to worry. All is not lost. I’ve struck up a promising new relationship with Television, and we’ve already enjoyed some great times together.
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