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Pwththth's Journal
Monday, July 7, 2008
10:20PM - Jeremy's birthday
So, here's the plan. My birthday is the 15th, and I'm going to celebrate it on the 17th (thursday), as that's when the new batman movie comes out.
Current plan:
Dinner at Beth's at 6ish, hang out with friends, have fun. Go to the Cinerama around 9:30-10:30 to get in line for the midnight showing of Batman.
Please let me know if you are coming, and if you want me to get you a ticket (I'll buy a bunch early so we have seats).
Saturday, July 5, 2008
12:14PM
Anyone out there with decent photoshop skills want to help me lay out a board game some time this coming week?
Monday, June 23, 2008
6:43PM
Anyone care to suggest cool movies that will release on or before the 12th-13th of July?
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
10:18PM - mass email help
Ok, I want to be that guy. I have a list of email addresses (several thousand). I want to send a promotional email to each one. It's the same email, just going to every address. Anyone know of a good program or service for this?
Thursday, May 8, 2008
2:11PM
Quote of the day: "It's called a period because it brings you to a full stop"
Sunday, May 4, 2008
11:57PM
"To talk to a customer service person, press one. To go to our automated system, press two. If you do not have a touch tone phone, please hang up, go to the store, buy one, and call us back."
Friday, April 11, 2008
1:11PM - Less than helpful...
So Liz is trying to get turbotax to work, and was having issues. Microsoft live search was...less than helpful. She searched for File Extension .lif.
In addition to that data, it suggests related searches:
File Extension list
Change File Extension
File Extension Rar
Computer File Extensions
Bin File Extension
WPS File Extension
Dl File Extension
Hair Extensions
That last one should be really helpful...
Anyhow, anyone wanna call and help Liz beat up TurboTax and/or Microsoft?
Thursday, April 10, 2008
1:44PM - In my ongoing quest...
to pick the brain of the internet, one of you wonderful friends of mine must know how to do this:
I have an excel spreadsheet with name/address/email data for my customers going back to 2003. I want to sort this to remove duplicates, then do a mass emailing with the email addresses and print postcard lables with the mailing addresses.
Anyone out there know a good way to do this? Or better, interested in renting themselves out for a few hours to help me do it?
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
11:50AM
I hate that every time I build an L5R deck the one thing that I cannot possibly find is the bloody stronghold.
Also, My contract Gig at microsoft has ended, so I have more free time now. Anyone want to book some of it?
Thursday, March 27, 2008
2:21PM - Postcards
So I want to have some postcards printed...anyone care to recommend a print shop? I'm looking for about 2000, 2 sided full color. Full bleed is nice but not needed.
Also, any graphic designers out there want to let me rent them for a few hours to design the card?
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
1:19PM - ebay is full of hate
So, my ebay store has 2200ish items in it, most of them good till canceled items that auto-renew every 30 days. All of these auctions use the same template, with the name of the card changed, but everything else the same (a plug for my ebay store, shipping info, and so on).
Sometime in 2006 ebay made a change to its policies that sellers cannot accept US cash as payment (unless users are picking up an item in person). Ok, I think this is silly, but I understand the idea behind not wanting users to mail cash. Even so, less than 1% of my business is in cash, and with a 99.8% positive feedback with 2000+ unique, I like to think I have a track record of being good to my customers. The template for my auctions lists payment options. It recommends paypal, but says that I also take checks, money orders and “Cash, but you shouldn’t send cash in the mail”.
Well, some Ebay trust and safety goon stumbled onto one of my auctions, saw this text, and noted that it was in violation of the policy.
What did they do next? Did they contact me to let me know there was a problem? Call me? Suggest ways I could fix this?
No. They did call me, but not till after the next step, which was to delete about 150 auctions.
When they called me to let me know this was going on, I asked if there had been any complaints or problems and was told there wasn’t. They just noted that the text was in violation. I said I would fix it, and asked how long I had to do so. I was told, basically, no time; they will delete these auctions as soon as they see them. It takes time to modify 2200 auctions. Rather than give me this time or work with me to fix the problem they deleted 100-150 auctions about every 24, finally closing my store and suspending my account. I had asked the person who did call for the contact information of the person who would be making the decisions about my account, and was told he could not give it to me. I asked that that person call me, and got a “I’ll pass that along”.
Anyone who has ordered from me in the last month is getting emails telling them that my listings have been removed. Needless to say, they are wondering what’s up, and ebay is making me look like an idiot.
To say that I’m irate understates the issue. This demonstrates to me that ebay really cares not at all for sellers, and I’m glad I’m transitioning off to my own site. That said, I had expected to have more time to do so, and to get everything posted to playccg.com. As it is, I’m now in a big hurry, wanting to have it full of product and useable asap so my customers have somewhere to go.
Monday, March 10, 2008
12:01PM - Anyone want a job?
So my time with microsoft is coming to a close, and I'd be happy to recommend people if anyone wants to replace me. It's a 40 hr/wk a- 1 year contract position. I don't know if they are keeping the same payscale, but its overpayed for the amount of work you are actually doing, and the people I work with rock.
Short form job description: Pre-Moderate posts to a forum for kids so that they don't say anything that gets Microsoft sued.
Additional tasks based on your skills and interests.
Also: If you are looking for short term (3 month or so) work, this might be a great fit.
Interested?
Shoot me an email (jeremy at playccg.com).
Monday, March 3, 2008
2:13PM - Saddest. You-tube video. Ever.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
10:15AM - Things I did not know about cuttlefish
Ok, I'm sure it's an aside to your day, but I think it's cool. So the Cuttlefish is a squishy little critter, related to squids and octopi. They can change color very well and very quickly, to the point that even the professionals studying them in the wild have to keep a careful eye on them or they will change color and get lost. They can reproduce also any color or shade. There was a great image in this morning NYT of one sitting on a chess board, with very clean lined white and black squares on its back. If you put one in a tank with sand it will go all sandcolored. Drop in a few white rocks and the cuttlefish adds a white patch to its back within seconds.
The cool part?:
They are colorblind.
What?
Yes, the best color changer in the sea can't see color. From wikipedia: they can "perceive the polarization of light, which enhances their perception of contrast."
Neat.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
9:01AM - Pop Quiz
Name mad scientists from literature/film that aren’t white males. The definition of ‘mad scientist’ is pretty flexible. I’ll start:
Dr Delia Surridge (V for Vendetta)
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
4:00PM - Quantum Tic Tac Toe is cool
Friday, February 1, 2008
11:44PM - I need a shelving unit and a lot of 5 row card boxes
I need a shelving unit with a large amount of shelves (which can be as little as 6-7 inches tall each shelf) and about 50 five row cardboard card boxes. Anyone out there have extra?
11:29AM - Why you should vote for Obama.
Oh. My. God.
Ok, anyone out there not know who Ann Coulter is? She's a far far right wing republican talking head/lunatic.
Some quotes of hers, just for perspective before I get to my point:
"I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo."
"Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims. "
(On Islam) "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
The last is perhaps her most famous quote.
Ok, so we have established her far right credentials. She is a regular talking head on Fox "News", and was discussing the possibility of the race being between Hillary Clinton and John McCain. In that race, she (again, this is on Fox) said she would be willing to vote for, campaign for and promote...Clinton!
Oh god, what?
Form CNN, quoting her:
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"If you are looking at substance rather than if there is an R or a D after his name, manifestly, if he's our candidate, than Hillary is going to be our girl, because she's more conservative than he is," Coulter said. "I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism."
Coulter took aim at McCain's positions — particularly his fervent anti-torture stance — and said he and Clinton differ little on the issues. Coulter also said she is prepared to campaign on Clinton's behalf should McCain win the party's nomination.
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So, wait, the woman who described Bill Clinton as "a very good rapist" and thinks Democrats in general should be in jail, she's going to back Hillary?
Ok, I know that this is all about the republicans trying to unseat McCain because they didn't appoint him, but come on folks. If one of the biggest republican talking heads is honestly describing Hillary as to the right of the GOP, I think we need to look at that...
I have other reasons for hoping Hillary is out, but this is my new fav.
Thoughts?
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