1. With tax season up us, I just logged into my Sallie Mae account so that I could download last year's student-loan interest statement. Since I hadn't logged into the account in ages, the site forced me to do a bunch of idiotic security" stuff, including choosing five - FIVE! - "challenge questions" for use if I ever forget my password or whatever. Five questions? That's stupid.
2. Northfield isn't the middle of nowhere, by any means, but it's on the edge of nowhere. According to Apple, the nearest place I could go to buy an iPhone - if, say, I wanted to stimulusate the economy in that way, as I know the preznit would want - is in freaking Apple Valley, 20 miles away. If only such a glorious toy could be acquired over some form of world-spanning electronic communication and commerce network...
3. I love my new computer, but I'm surprised to discover that The Feature - the thing I want on my Windows machine at work - is two-finger scrolling on the trackpad: dragging the index and middle fingers horizontally or vertically to scroll through a web page, a Word doc, or what have you. It's so easy and right that I wish I could do it with all my computers.