Archive for August, 2009

Specializing in web spamming

Posted by Erik on August 9th, 2009 filed in vexation of the spirit

You know those ads you see that say you can make thousands of dollars a week working from home? Some of those ads are seeking people who will spend all day long visiting blogs and embedding the url for a company in the comments section, thus increasing the likelihood that that company’s website will [...]

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At least we don’t live in Las Vegas . . .

Posted by Erik on August 3rd, 2009 filed in Preapocalyptic technological dystopia

. . . where things are so bad Scott Nowicki got his picture in the paper just for riding his bike to work.
Many of my readers know Scott, formerly of Phoenix. My favorite quote from him in the article, about riding a bike in Las Vegas:
“This is dangerous. We’re going to die here.”
The [...]

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My biggest fear

Posted by Erik on August 3rd, 2009 filed in TPD shortcomings, safety

I don’t drive often enough for it to be a very natural experience for me. I’m nervous as hell behind the wheel. And naturally, as tucsonbikelawyer, the thing that scares me the most is hitting a bicyclist.
Today I took the car to Ordinary Bike Shop to get some work done on [...]

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