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$@!#& eBay!

Well, I had my first and last experience trying to sell a high-ticket item on eBay… it’s absolutely unusable. I tried to sell my laptop. In the first auction, I put in a “buy it now” price, which was immediately sniped by a bot. Great. My listing fees are refunded, and I list the laptop again, without the “buy it now.” Five days later, after enduring about a million spam “questions” from Chinese companies, the auction is ended by a fraudulent account. Man, eBay is just not worth it these days. Perhaps low valued items are still OK… I sold a DS game with no problems, and buy games pretty regularly… but the laptop is gonna have to get offed some other way. G’uh!

1 comment · Written by Nathan at 4:51 pm ·

Pants Thursday. Subsequently,
No Pants Friday

Totally not going in to the office tomorrow. Whut whut!

I got my hakama in the mail yesterday. I was kinda feeling “meh” about aikido for a while, but looking at these “pants” (as Matt, and subsequently Chandra, would say) made me a bit excited. As an aside, the dude wearing the hakama in the picture is rocking the other dude with the “nikkyo” technique.

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iPhone HOOOOOOORJ!

So the iPhone comes out today. Woop-de-whoop! For a while, I was thinking about getting one, but then I realized that you pay $60/month minimum for service, on top of a $500 phone. Plus I’d have to cancel my contract with T-Mobile, which they would rob me for. When I think of other irresponsible things I could do with that money, a few other options spring to mind:

1. Buy a new bike
2. Buy a Nintendo Wii
3. Go to Japan
4. Save it in my bank account so I don’t die in the gutter

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The blog is back

Yollah to the people who still check this page!

I busted out the old WordPress database, upgraded it, and here we are! The previous posts are vintage, aged about two years, from back when I was wallowing in Japan. It makes light, interesting reading, and is especially nostalgic for me. Like a dog to its’ vomit, I keep coming back for more blog action. If we can learn anything from history, a prediction that I will get tired and delete everything here wouldn’t be too far off the mark. However, until that time, you can read sporadic ramblings that emanate from my ridiculous head.

I’m mostly going to be writing about videogames, running, and perhaps Christianity, since those are the biggest things in my life right now (aside from the girlfriend, but she’s not a topic for the intar-nets). If you want to hear me opine on something, drop me a line and I’ll write up an essay.

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