June Beetles

I just sat down at my desk to start doing some homework, and I saw several June beetles outside my window. I looked more closely, and saw that they were bustling around some droplet-shaped, 1 cm diameter white things hanging from the surface surrounding the window.

We are hosting June beetle reproduction!

(I'll email and ask my brother at home, who used to be into entomology (he's now into herpetology), whether there is anything bad about June beetles besides the noise they make at night.)

CORRECTION!!! CORRECTION!!!

Those are not June beetles, they are wasps!

If anyone else sees some wasps outside their window, keep your window shut and tell Chuck.

Have $250+ But Need More?

Dear Eagles,

I have been enjoying banking with ING Direct for about two years now, and I can tell you that it is a very good bank.

There are high interest rates - when I started, the CHECKING was making about 2.5% APY, and the savings account was making about 4.3% APY.

With the bad economy, the rates are down to 0.25% and 1.4% respectively, but they are still good.

When you have any questions or complaints, there is one number you call, you get answered pretty quickly, and the first person to answer the phone will be able to help you with everything - no bereaucracy.

And about the title of the post.

Another really nice feature is that if you invite someone to start an account and they do by clicking the link in the email sent through the website, (and they start it with $250 or more), they get a bonus of $25 added to their account and you get $10.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, there is a free debit card that comes with the checking account (you don't need to pay a penny to get the card once you've started the account, or a replacement for it if you lose it). The account also has an Overdraft Line of Credit - you can choose how much beyond the amount of money in the account you can spend, and it has "a competitive APR", to quote the website. (I'm not sure what that APR is, because I have always kept the balance in my account positive.)

If you have both Electric Orange (checking) and Orange Savings, you can keep the bulk of your money in the savings account, earning interest, and a certain amount (like ~$100) in the checking, and once a week, or once a month, look at the website to see how much you've got in the checking, and in one minute you can transfer the amount of money you want from the savings to the checking or vice versa.

The minimum in the savings is $0.00, and the minimum in the checking is the using up of your overdraft line of credit. In other words, there is no minimum in either account.

So, if anyone has the time to set up a new account, and wants to, please email me or leave a comment, and I'll have an invitation sent to you.

Welcome to Fall 2009, Eagles!

Those of you who would like to see another blog to get an idea of what manner to write a post in, click here and take a look around.

(And keep a link to that site if you need any help with math and can't talk to me).

So, the purpose of this blog is to help Eagles communicate, keep a record of memorable events, and provide a means for them to ask each other for help.

To emphasize the third clause, if anyone is having difficulty understanding or remembering something from class, one place to turn for help is the floormates. Because not everyone is in the same place at the same time, it would help to have a same place that we all come to periodically.

Because questions on the blog cannot be guaranteed to be answered in a short amount of time, most questions posted should be things that are perhaps important but not very urgent.

I would expect everyone to visit the blog about once a week, but do not feel that it is more important than classwork; if it's a choice between visiting the blog and doing the work due 7:30 tomorrow morning, do the work. But please try to find some time to visit the blog in.

Thank you all, and God bless,

David Nemati

PS. Sorry it took me this long to put up the first post; I think that probably slowed the activity a lot from what it could have been.