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Death and Taxes Fiscal Year 2004
I just used H&R Block Tax Cut Standard to figure out my taxes and file them online. Over all it went even quicker since I could import last years data. I can't believe that it has been an entire year since the last time I did this.
This is the first year that I to filed online and the main reason why I am posting this is to see how long it takes until my refund is deposited in my checking account. It is interesting how quick the entire process is with good software and online transactions.
I know that the older generation thinks that their money sits in the bank somewhere in a vault behind a steel door but it truth it exists not in a stack of bills but bits of data on hard drives and networks. It is a very William Gibsonian like realization to think of all of your money that you put in the bank is in all realistic purposes just clumps of magnetically charged dust sitting on a metal platter in a computer somewhere. I know it is backed up but it does make your hair stand on end when you think about it.
So is anyone doing anything fun to celebrate fiscal new year eve?
Jake at February 2, 2005 
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like realization to think of all of your money that you put in the bank is in all realistic purposes just clumps of magnetically charged dust sitting on a metal platter in a computer somewhere
YOu obviously were not a science major.
Posted by: scorpius at February 3, 2005 10:02 AM
in my country, it takes only 2 weeks after online transaction to payment.
Posted by: Jim at February 3, 2005 12:12 PM
Wouldn't describing how a magnetic disk worked fall under physics not chemistry?
What country are you talking about Jim?
From what I read it should be about two weeks here in the good old US of A.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at February 3, 2005 9:30 PM
Chemistry is a sub-discipline of Physics. In fact, Chemists in their undergrad years take about 75% of the non-research credits to qualify for a physics degree, biologists take about 20% (trust me, I know I almost double-majored in physics)
Posted by: scorpius at February 4, 2005 11:22 AM
I celebrated by writing the IRS to thank them that all of my wife and I's scholarships are added to our incomes and only 4,000 total of our combined comes off of that. I wanted to thank them for the magical 12,000 dollars of extra income that we earned.
Or I cried my self to sleep after paying an extra 1400 in federal and state income taxes.
But who am I to complain?
Posted by: Henry at February 5, 2005 7:06 AM
