Deposit at the Burrito Bank

If you like Chipotle at all, have you made your deposit at the Burrito Bank? Yes it's a good deal, assuming you can make it back once this year to claim your deposit, and you'll spend $25 there within the next 4 years. For a financial comparison, we'll say the interest on the investment is the free burrito - lets price that at $5.50. That makes the interest on the term of the investment 22%. If you instead put the $25 in a high-yield savings account (a reasonable comparison for the term over which $25 in Chipotle bucks will last, not the resulting calculated comparison term), at 5.05% APY (real current rate, 4.93% APR compounded daily, assume no rate changes over the term), it would take 1473 days to achieve the same return. That's 4 years, 12 days (there's a leap year in there). At that length a more likely investment would be a CD at 5.20% APY, which would shorten the term to around 3.79 years. So unless you won't buy 5 more burritos within around 4 years, you should go attempt to make your deposit at the Burrito Bank.

Incentive to go to church

Today was bring the church announcement bulletin into Chipotle (or actually just the "coupon" part), and get a free burrito (or other entrée) day. Couldn't argue with that, especially as I was debating it anyways. The line of course was out the door since it seems the entire church went, but it was free lunch. Well, other than the buying a drink to chip in a bit to support them doing cool stuff like that. Chipotle seems to go way beyond what I've seen other local restaurants do to, with stuff like this and the annual hunger awareness days and stuff. They must realize that goodwill to people makes up for all the free food they give away.

In the words of Rotach when he pointed it out to everyone during announcements, "Some may call it advertising; I call it free lunch."

The end of the week is finally here... The day was sorta weird I guess. This morning I was busy, but now I can't remember what I did... I think that means it's really time for the weekend... Then there was Chipotle, a quiz in AI, and learning about Top Spin. Then discovering we need to haul out the drill again to mount bluepill in the racks, so that has to wait... The library kiosks now have printing too, and the SSL certificates on webmail won't expire on Saturday anymore (that was fun as it involved playing with an IIS3 server for a bit)... At least I had some variety though. After work Dave and Nick had 10 and Jeff and I over and we had steaks on the grill and watched a really weird movie and sat around watching TV. Fun stuff, but we were all tired and definitely ready for the weekend... Oh yea, Mike J says I'm supposed to mention The Charm of the Bead. I think he said something about google...

Well, I'm trying a new approach today to posting. I was bored and coded up a nice script and set up an alias for it, so now I can email in my updates. No, it's not my normal email address, and yes, it requires a special format. I also get emails on failed attempts, so don't even bother... The main cool thing about this is it means I can post entries without having an interactive web connection. Like if I get bored in class or something, and it's the one for which I haven't finagled an access point within range, I can send an email and it'll go up when sendmail can get the message out. It sounds cool to me anyways, and one person has already borrowed the script to do it on his site, so hopefully there won't be too many problems. I was tired today, but managed to do my homework relatively quickly, which was good... We learned about our project in Networking, and about waves in Physics. My row got to be human examples of waves, which was rather interesting. In lab we were playing with the equipment before we were given the sheet of what to do, and then realised when he passed them out that we had already done the entire lab and should have written down the numbers... Still finished rather quickly though... Today schdav had fun and posted an interesting article... Anyways, tommorrow is Chipotle day since Betsy doesn't have class, which will make it a good day...

OK, so I haven't posted in a while. I blame it on avoiding homework. That sounds weird, but that means I've been doing a good job - here's the logic. Basically I've kept myself occupied enough with other stuff that I didn't get any time to think about stuff to put up here. Anyways, April fools was good, with my boss pulling a couple good pranks across the whole college - everyone's pictures in everything online were randomly modified, and Ellen Feiss became a student enrolled in a bunch of CS classes (complete with email address and everything) and is currently having some troubles with her PC causing her to loose a really good paper tracked in the ITS IncidentBase - last I checked on it Network Services was blaming the problem on her flooding ResNet with NetBEUI traffic in an attempt to figure out how to route it for a class assignment. I did actually end up finishing my homework, but in the process did way too much random stuff. Right now I have a dual Athlon XP2000+ machine with 1GB RAM and tons of IO capability running full out on both processors doing heavy number crunching and analysis... I have a feeling my office is gonna be rather warm tomorrow when I get there... :( Anyways, I need to get up in the morning...we are going to Chipotle for lunch (yea, that's still the highlight of everyone's week - it's like some sort of quest we all go on or something)...