Triple squee!

This episode of BoingBoing TV, recorded this year at Consonance, features not only a great cover shot of my CD, Coffee, Computers, and Song, but a discussion of one of the songs on it (Vampire Mega-Byte), and people singing a filk of Rocket Rider's Prayer. So I'm a very happy filker.

(Via this post by hsifyppah. Thank you!)

Insight of the day

Realized this morning that most of the trouble I was having with $insurance_company were due to the fact that they're not set up for any way of doing business except through your own unique agent. This is not the way I'm used to interacting with large companies. I'm used to it with health-care providers, but even there it was a long time before I figured out that I had to pick a doctor at Kaiser: before that I just went in when I was sick.

As it turns out, stock brokerages work the same way -- your connection is to the broker, not to the company. This explains why I've never really gotten a handle on my investments.

Now that I understand this, maybe I can start fixing it. Or turn the investments over to the flower_cat, who does understand how to do business through a personal connection, and is comfortable with it.