Our first two auctions (one, two) were legitimate successes.
Then something happened. Either some negative nancy reported us to eBay out of malice, or they just were offended by our obviously sarcastic remark about terrorist blogs on auction two. Either way, they booted us.
So now, we’ve taken matters into our own dirty hands. Learn about it:
Due to a recent incident involving certain by-products of our current political environment, an unnamed online auction site has banned Wreck & Salvage from use of its services. At times like these True Patriots must stand tall. We will not cower to corporate terrorism that attempts to stifle the free enterprise system of the good ol’ USA.
Thus, effective immediately we will host independent auctions through our own site (link)
Show these carpetbaggers, these usurpers of blue-collared red-blooded America, who really greases the gears and stokes the furnaces of Our Homeland.
Our auctions run on the honor system, and our word is 350 maraging steel (in layman’s terms, it’s damned solid).
RULES TO FOLLOW
1. All bids are contracts, reneging on bids will result in a swift kick to the shins.
2. The auction begins after the first bid is placed, and ends on the date noted in the weekly post.
3. This is the honor system.
That’s it. Good luck.
Here are our previous eBay auctions: Weeks One & Two
Hoboken and Jersey City have given me all they can, and I’m looking to move to either Manhattan, Brooklyn, or possibly Queens/Astoria although I know nothing about it.
Anybody know of anything or need a roommate? I’m clean, have a small cat, pay my bills, am not a sociopath, etc.
Contrary to what you may have seen on this web site, I’m a normal human being. These videos are only one piece of the jigsaw puzzle, ya know. I’m not sure why I’m defending my sanity, but I have the feeling people are whispering about the crazy guy with the gun in the bathtub.
Email, IM, or call
bullemhead@gmail.com, IMbullemhead, 551.208.4644
Because you never know where you’ll be when you feel the urge to know Jesus.
Also useful for you Christians belonging to one of those Godless paramilitary organizations that congregate in the forest. They won’t be able to see how holy you are!
PAN Fan and fellow video maker Bruce (of Brucine) made this video for a friend of his that was trying to quit smoking. He used some footage from this PAN episode.
I was interested in the hypnosis tape that he sampled. I used to smoke quite a bit (pack a day) when I worked in the restaurant industry. Then I quit altogether for a couple years. Then I picked it back up, but much less than before. Now I smoke a few cigarettes per week, and only when drinking alcohol. I can’t separate the two habits in my head. A gin and tonic just isn’t the same without a cigarette.
So anyway, I asked Bruce where I could find the original hypnosis tape, and he was nice enough to MP3 it and upload it to Blip.
This is a dub of a quit-smoking (audio) tape that the American Lung Association of Wisconsin put out sometime in the 1970’s. I helped me to quit. I’m putting it up here for the use of anybody who wants to give it a try. Probably best not to listen to this while driving.
Those of you in NYC, come down to Slainte tomorrow night for a meetup. We’re going to be talking about the tech scene in NY and how we are shaping it. Plus, I’m bringing my iPod full of PAN episodes to show on the big screens around the bar. Then later there’s some olde-time bluegrassy music.
Tuesday night, nextNY will be gathering after work at Slainte at 304 Bowery between Houston and Bleeker.
You should come… In fact, if you come to any of our events, I’ll put it out there that this is the single most important event to be at in the short history of this burgeoning group.
Why?
Because, now, we’re over the hump of trying to come into existance. We exist. We’re 140 on our listserv. We have a real website. Now its not about, “Will this work?” as it is about “Now that this works, what do you want to do with it?”
So some of us will be meeting at 6PM on the dot to go over some ideas we have for public discussions, like a Startup 101 with some of the most successful area entrepreneurs. But really, everybody there should be talking about “what next” because the larger this group gets, the less its about nextNY and the more its about the up and coming members of the NYC digitial community. What do we want to be as a whole? What’s the message we want to broadcast?
One selfish reason I want this group to succeed: If New York is seen as a power in the digital tech and new media arena, those of us that are based here get extra streed cred!
I’m excited about the possibilities that this nextNY group brings. I have a feeling that no matter what we’re looking for while building The PAN, we’ll be able to find someone in the group to help us with it. Tons of talent.
The RSS feed has been fucked for the past few days. I switched servers and moved from Movable Type to Wordpress. Anyway, it’s working again. However, the Windows Media version is not, and probably won’t be until someone asks me for it. I hate WMV for a bunch of reasons, and if I’m going to encode a couple different versions of each video, I’d rather make the other one .3gp so people can watch it on their mobile gadget.
On another note, this alphabet project is going great. I’m up to letter “H”, and it looks like “I” shouldn’t be a problem. It’s very exciting business, this battle of attrition.
Also, allergy season is hitting us hard in the NYC area. But as Lenny pointed out, they say that every Spring: “It’s a bad year for allergies”. Luckily I’m not allergic to air, but just the stuff floating in it.
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