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Archive for May, 2005

May 31st, 2005 - 3:59 pm § in Home, eBay

Time for an Upgrade

My 31st birthday came and went earlier this month. I think I handled it very well. There was none of last year’s “THIRTY?! I’M going to be THIRTY? No frigging way. There will be no cake, no candles, in fact, no celebration of any kind. I am NOT having my birthday. EVER AGAIN.” It didn’t he[...]

May 12th, 2005 - 4:08 pm § in Home, eBay

Ignorance is Bliss

You know that prickly, buzzy feeling you get when a body part falls asleep? My entire right arm has been doing that ALL DAY. And now I can’t feel my hand. You might be asking how I’m writing this. And I would say, the same way I’ve been typing letters and designing banners and gene[...]

May 11th, 2005 - 1:28 pm § in eBay

Dorian’s Portrait

My friend Tracy quit yesterday. He started at eBay a month before I did, over five years ago. We both started in Community Watch, where we spent the better part of a year booting off the creeps who listed freak-show porn, Faces of Death videos and crime scene photos. Later, I moved on to the [...][...]

May 4th, 2005 - 3:28 pm § in Design, Geekdom, eBay

Total Geeker

Ohmigod, I am a GEEK. Not that that’s bad. Or some kind of newsflash. But I get so used to living in the World of Me that most of the time, I’m oblivious to the things that make me a dork. That is, until I find myself doing something SO FREAKING COOL that it completely blows [...][...]