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I used to work as a salesman in a camera store, which was admittedly an odd career choice, because I never had any great facility for cameras or photography before taking the job. In fact, before working there, I’d broken … Continue reading →

Sunday night, my first three eBay auctions sucessfully closed with offers for all three posters I was selling. If I could just get paid for them all, life would be great. I started all three posters at $1.99, because it … Continue reading →

When I was listeding three old posters on eBay Sunday, eBay’s postage calculator gave me some really high postage estimates (nine dollars!?) for posters that didn’t weigh much. That’s been bothering me all week, because I suspect it’s scaring bidders … Continue reading →

I’ve had a lot of stupid jobs over the years: beer guy, camera guy, search engine guy, home security guy, and a few more I don’t feel like talking about. In addition to creating a résumé that makes potential employers … Continue reading →

I was 20 when I started having the chest pains. I was used to random aches and pains, and kind of busy being a college junior, so I didn’t really bother to think about how bad the phrase “chest pains” … Continue reading →

I have no gaydar. (All of my friends, and many former co-workers, could vouch for this.) Maybe it’s because I grew up in boring little Republican town where all the homosexuals had to be extra-deeply closeted. Maybe it’s because I … Continue reading →

The first time I had a job where I could work at home, I had to uninstall all of Window 98’s pre-installed games, because they really are tremendous time-wasters. Everytime I got bored trying to optimize a mediocre web page … Continue reading →

Lou Dobbs reported today that the company producing MREs for the U.S. military was caught using undocumented workers at the the MRE plant. Gosh, a food-packaging industry in Texas is using undocumented workers? That’s such a shock….

I have trouble remembering people’s birthdays. (In fact, I usually forget about my birthday until the day before.) For remembering friends’ birthdays, I’m completely useless. For relatives’ birthdays, I at least manage to remember which annual events occur nearby on … Continue reading →

Back in the early years of the Web, before spammers took all the fun out the Internet, there was a site called the World Birthday Web. Those of us with homepages could list our name, birthday, homepage, and e-mail address, … Continue reading →