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Count My Change

Keith — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:51:38 +0000

I recently had a large container of coins that I was ready to cash in on. Problem is, even with today’s technology Citibank and most banks still require their own customers to roll coins and write your account number on each roll. I refuse to pay a retail coin machine (ie Coinstar) 10% for something Citibank should do as a service for its customers. I am not being lazy here, it just doesn’t make sense that my own bank that handles cash and coins every single day can not provide this simple service for its own customers. Fortunately TD Bank seems to be the only bank around that offers coin counting as a free service for its customers (7% for others). So I had a friend who is a TD Bank customer cash them in for me. I called and emailed Citibank and asked them if there was any way they could waive their fee for me (a customer for the last ten years) and their answer was no.

To make this more entertaining I decided to pose a contest for my facebook friends. Closest guess under or over wins $2. It was a fun experiment! Results are in the screenshot below:

This coin counting obsession officially ends with a question I pose on Yahoo Answers : “Why doesn’t my bank have a free coin machine?”.

5SecondFilms

Keith — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:29:13 +0000

I can’t stop watching 5SecondFilms. These guys have nailed the short attention span, viral internet clip. Various cameos by Patton Oswalt, Juliette Lewis and Greg Sestero of The Room fame.

Find them on vimeo or 5SecondFilms.com

That Song Sounds Like

Keith — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:57:45 +0000

Heard a song and thought it sounded just like something else? ThatSongSoundsLike.com pits one song against another song. See for yourself!

Coldplay vs. Kraftwerk

The Beatles vs. Sublime

Lada Gaga vs. The Theme to “Top Gun”

U2 vs. John Mayer

Green Day

And more at ThatSongSoundsLike.com

World Wide Yule Log

Keith — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:14:54 +0000

Get in the holiday spirit and add your message to the World Wide Yule Log brought to you by Drillteam Marketing.

It’s an interactive LED scroller brodcasted from the Drillteam offices via webcam.

Pandora without Ads

Keith — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:03:12 +0000

I love Pandora and don’t mind the full page ads. In fact I think they’re generally well designed and interesting. But what if you don’t want to look at the ads. You can browse straight to the SWF in your browser and Pandora still functions as a radio player:

https://www.pandora.com/radio/tuner_8_7_0_0_pandora.swf

A lot of the other functionality is lost though.