Category Archives: Notebook

On eBay

10 September 2008 – 10:55 am

I both love and hate eBay. On one hand, you can buy anything there. ANYTHING. EBay makes it possible for people to collect absolutely anything that interests them, from anywhere in the world, which is kind of cool. You don’t have to have all the exact same stuff in your house [...]

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Unpaid advertisement

20 August 2008 – 10:28 am

There is an eBay store with some really nice handmade bags for tarot decks, runes, dice, etc. here: Broake & Thumb Studios. Lots of different designs. I just got one and I really like it.

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Hello ma’am, land shark

16 May 2008 – 1:52 pm

Thudfactor mentioned in his blog yesterday that I got a call from one of our charming scam charities. I was going to comment on his post (which you should go read here, I’ll wait)... but it got to be so long that it needed a separate entry. Part of my job at a [...]

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Citicards’ “All-Electronic Program”

5 May 2008 – 3:59 pm

I got tired of having to shred half my mail over the years, so as merchants began to offer options to receive statements electronically instead, I’ve generally jumped at the chance.

One merchant that I opted for all e-mail with was for my Citibank credit card. All went fine for a while, but then, insidiously, [...]

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Batteries not included. Now with termite-chompin’ action!

2 May 2008 – 5:09 pm

As Thud has alluded in his Twitter stream, I recently ordered an item online – a carved wooden box – which, alas, turned out to have termites.

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