Did you know there's an ATM in Antarctica? Actually, two of them (one's a spare).
The World's Most Southerly ATM: An Interview With Wells Fargo's David Parker
DP: I think the experiment or experiments that they are doing in Antarctica were part of one of the universities--or [had] heavy involvement from the university--and the university, I think, originally approached us and asked us if we'd put an ATM down there, and we of course had a very similar reaction to the one you just described, which was "Why would we need an ATM in Antarctica?" And I believe now that McMurdo is all run by Raytheon Corporation, and so that's a little history of sort of how we got involved in it. But now, as I said, the cash is all recycled, it's done by the employees there that work at McMurdo Station…and the other ATM…we have two ATMs there….one is operational at a time. The other is one that they can sort of cannibalize, if you will, for parts or spare things that they need to make the other one live and operational. We do send a vendor down about once every two years to do some preventative hardware maintenance on both of the ATMs, to make sure they're operational, change out the belts and that kind of stuff, provide new cartridges…anything else hardware-wise that we would need to make sure that it runs. But as you can imagine getting somebody down there is quite a feat.
Did you know there's an ATM in Antarctica? Actually, two of them (one's a spare).
Makes sense, they probably need cash when getting something from the Starbucks.
What had been TDS take on all the late night tv shit?
This might be a question that limited people can help me with, but someone sent me an email saying this wetmen pic of a guy showering (bum showing, so NSFW) is not Dominic Monaghan as I'd thought, but instead Cillian Murphy from 28 Days Later. Opinion?
It's Dominic from an episode of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
Is Jimmy Fallon not talking about it, either? He wasn't included in any of last night's clips.
I believe that Murphy does have a shower scene in 28 Days Later, but that is definitely Monaghan: [link]
[D'oh, missed it by that much.]
I fell out of the sitcom habit a couple of years ago and never found my way back.
Yeah. Well, okay, I just watched Extras last night, but that was on DVD. Even when I was watching more TV, I can't remember the last time I regularly watched a sitcom. They're just not appealing for some reason.
If you want to get back into comedy, I HIGHLY recommend Better Off Ted.
I think there has just been too much political news for TDS to do a late night TV segment. What with Harry Reid, Giuliani (still taking contributions for his 2008 Presidential bid Join Rudy 2008) saying there were no domestic terrorist attacks during the Bush Administration, Blago back in the news, the John Yoo interview. There's just too much stuff.
I got out of the sitcom habit when Seinfeld went off the air, and got back into it with HIMYM, 30 Rock, and Parks & Rec.
