I stated publishing ebooks at Amazon and Smashwords in 2010, selling short stories that I had reprint rights for at a buck each. I made more money from ebook sales than I did from first serial right sales. Sales tapered off as I took a two-year break (2015-2016) from writing and publishing to focus on my tech job that pays the bills. Short content for a buck is dead as a business model. I'm consolidating my 50+ titles into fewer titles, ordered new cover artwork,
and raising the price to $1.99 for each. I should have that finished by the end of the year.
You are supposed to be ashamed of taking 20 minutes to walk 0.85 miles on a 3% incline.
Really? I'm supposed to be ashamed of my workout? Excuse me... ROFL...
You don't walk faster or run because you're worried about knee surgery that professional athletes need?
I'm not talking about professional basketball players. I'm talking about skinny white guys who pushed each other at basketball harder, get hurt, hobble around like veterans, and telling everyone how great they were before they got crippled for life. These are the same guys who scream like a pregnant woman while working out at the gym.
you take something other people would be ashamed of and brag about it?
What it is that I'm supposed to be ashamed of?
my 85 year old gramma can walk it in 20
Take another look at the treadmill picture. I'm walking 3 MPH on a 3% incline, which simulates the "intensity" of running. I doubt your gramma can do that without falling off and breaking her hip.
Normal walking - do you take a full hour for that mile or just ride your fucking scooter.
Takes me 30 minutes to walk a mile at my regular pace or 15 minutes if I'm in a hurry to catch the express bus. That's walking, not running. I don't want to end up like those skinny guys hobbling around after knee surgery because they had to show off at basketball.
Fat people whining about how hard it is to lose fat are simply unwilling to make the lifestyle changes required.
I eat less than most skinny people. I work out more than most skinny people. I still get lectured by skinny people who are indignant that I accepted being big as a normal part of my life instead of wallowing in self-piety and playing the victim game.
You got fat by living the way you do.
No, my genetics chose that I should be fat. My bone structure is three times bigger than my mother's and twice as big as my father's. I had a sixth-grade principal who called them in for a conference because he was going to shame them for having a fat kid. Except he was shocked to discover that my parents were skinny as can be and made for an awkward meeting. A half-dozen school-ordered blood tests by specialist failed to resolve this mystery. It wasn't until after my mother passed away that I came across family photos from the 1900's that I realized that I wasn't the only big person in the family.
The "have two snickers bars instead" comment was what is commonly known as sarcasm, pointing out that your energy bar consumption is as bad as, if not worse than, eating candy bars.
Are you the asshat who told me that I need a bowl of candy to stay on the treadmill? I didn't see a bowl candy at morning working at the gym.
This is the thing I like about Slashdot: people say meanest and stupidest things about me here that I'm not shocked when someone says the meanest and stupidest things to my face.
You're always going on here about your college experience and your work experience [...]
I got an A.S. degree in computer programming at a community college. The focus was on the practical and not theoretical. Many students were expected to get a job as a Java programmer or web developer. Historical context in most programming textbooks was a few lines at best.
[...] and how well you know the craft and all of that jazz [...]
Some people here assumed that I'm a professional programmer/developer/architect when I am not. I'm just a virtual ditch digger in IT Support. Without my dedicated work behind the scenes, the programmer/developer/architect at my job would have no cloud for users to connect.
[...] yet you've never heard of this important computing pioneer?!
My IT Support contracts for the last 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week. When I'm not working the full-time that pays the bills, I'm working 20 to 40 hours for my own company.
Eventually your co-workers tend not to like you and don't want to work with you, regardless of whether they "have to" or not. It leads to stress in the office and employee turnover, which leads to more costs and delays.
If you have to be an asshole in your own department, than management is doing a poor job.
When I got started after the dot com bust, I got my A+, Network+ and Microsoft Windows 2000 certification. That set me up for IT Support contracts that start at $10 per hour (minimum wage) in Silicon Valley.
The same reason why we the US has a shortage of skilled trade workers: we told kids that college was the path to a great paying career. Skilled trade workers are retiring, foreign skilled trade workers are going home and no one are replacing them. After the dot com crash, kids saw no future in computers and went into healthcare. As skilled IT workers retire and foreign IT workers go home, no one is going to replace them.
Eh, My mind is other places today. Thanks for the patience.
I know that feeling. I got 30+ people jabbering in my headset on a conference call that doesn't really concern me. But something might roll downhill and I'll need to shovel it up.
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I stated publishing ebooks at Amazon and Smashwords in 2010, selling short stories that I had reprint rights for at a buck each. I made more money from ebook sales than I did from first serial right sales. Sales tapered off as I took a two-year break (2015-2016) from writing and publishing to focus on my tech job that pays the bills. Short content for a buck is dead as a business model. I'm consolidating my 50+ titles into fewer titles, ordered new cover artwork, and raising the price to $1.99 for each. I should have that finished by the end of the year.
You are supposed to be ashamed of taking 20 minutes to walk 0.85 miles on a 3% incline.
Really? I'm supposed to be ashamed of my workout? Excuse me... ROFL...
You don't walk faster or run because you're worried about knee surgery that professional athletes need?
I'm not talking about professional basketball players. I'm talking about skinny white guys who pushed each other at basketball harder, get hurt, hobble around like veterans, and telling everyone how great they were before they got crippled for life. These are the same guys who scream like a pregnant woman while working out at the gym.
You're not even an average human being.
Thank God!
Are you the asshat who drops $3,000 per night on wine? Drunk posting on Slashdot is shameful.
no one called you a fat fuck you fat stupid fuck.
How little do you know your fellow asshats. Based on the lack of capitalization, I think the last comment link is yours.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8942041&cid=51871271
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9149275&cid=52174651
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9149275&cid=52178831
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9149275&cid=52173709
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10264419&cid=53893915
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10523405&cid=54291747
you take something other people would be ashamed of and brag about it?
What it is that I'm supposed to be ashamed of?
my 85 year old gramma can walk it in 20
Take another look at the treadmill picture. I'm walking 3 MPH on a 3% incline, which simulates the "intensity" of running. I doubt your gramma can do that without falling off and breaking her hip.
http://www.runnersworld.com/ask-coach-jenny/what-incline-should-i-use-on-my-treadmill
Normal walking - do you take a full hour for that mile or just ride your fucking scooter.
Takes me 30 minutes to walk a mile at my regular pace or 15 minutes if I'm in a hurry to catch the express bus. That's walking, not running. I don't want to end up like those skinny guys hobbling around after knee surgery because they had to show off at basketball.
Another unintelligible comment. Good thing I don't waste my time trying to read this drivel. Some asshats just don't have better things to do.
Blowing through $120 million with nothing to show for it doesn't appeal to them for some reason.
Unless the banks are using someone else's money and the federal government bails them out because they're too big to fail.
In Mountain View, CA? Rent.
How much of Mountain View doesn't Google own?
Google and LinkedIn did a land swap last year to get out of each other's way since Mountain View wasn't big enough for the both of them.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/07/12/google-linkedin-strike-stunning-grand-bargain-for.html
Just do your thing and don't worry about what the twats on /. think.
I'm just playing with the trolls. Self-righteous skinny people lecturing on weight loss are a funny bunch.
Fat people whining about how hard it is to lose fat are simply unwilling to make the lifestyle changes required.
I eat less than most skinny people. I work out more than most skinny people. I still get lectured by skinny people who are indignant that I accepted being big as a normal part of my life instead of wallowing in self-piety and playing the victim game.
You got fat by living the way you do.
No, my genetics chose that I should be fat. My bone structure is three times bigger than my mother's and twice as big as my father's. I had a sixth-grade principal who called them in for a conference because he was going to shame them for having a fat kid. Except he was shocked to discover that my parents were skinny as can be and made for an awkward meeting. A half-dozen school-ordered blood tests by specialist failed to resolve this mystery. It wasn't until after my mother passed away that I came across family photos from the 1900's that I realized that I wasn't the only big person in the family.
The "have two snickers bars instead" comment was what is commonly known as sarcasm, pointing out that your energy bar consumption is as bad as, if not worse than, eating candy bars.
Are you the asshat who told me that I need a bowl of candy to stay on the treadmill? I didn't see a bowl candy at morning working at the gym.
https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/858405712317210624
You say the stupidest things about yourself.
That's because I'm having fun.
Don't act surprised when people mock you for the fantastic amounts of bullshit you write.
The funny thing is that people pay me to read my bullshit. You should be grateful that you're reading for free. ;)
A search on Amazon for Harry Huskey returned books by Harry Huskey as the first results.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I don't know what you searched for, but I suspect you need more practice doing it.
Looks like I searched for "Harry Husky," which was what Amazon offered as an alternative for "Harry Huskey" on the page with his book.
This is the thing I like about Slashdot: people say meanest and stupidest things about me here that I'm not shocked when someone says the meanest and stupidest things to my face.
Oh wait - just clicked your homepage link.
There are two kinds of people on Slashdot: those who visit my website, see my picture and call me a fat fuck, and everyone else.
You're always going on here about your college experience and your work experience [...]
I got an A.S. degree in computer programming at a community college. The focus was on the practical and not theoretical. Many students were expected to get a job as a Java programmer or web developer. Historical context in most programming textbooks was a few lines at best.
[...] and how well you know the craft and all of that jazz [...]
Some people here assumed that I'm a professional programmer/developer/architect when I am not. I'm just a virtual ditch digger in IT Support. Without my dedicated work behind the scenes, the programmer/developer/architect at my job would have no cloud for users to connect.
[...] yet you've never heard of this important computing pioneer?!
If Amazon "never heard of this important computing pioneer", his life and achievements didn't a merit a book or he got mentioned in passing in someone else's book. I haven't read too many pre-1950's computer history books. The earliest books I've read was "The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer" by Charles J. Murray and "Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983" by Severo Ornstein.
A search for Harry Huskey on Amazon brought up "TJ Hooker - The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons" DVD for $7.55. O_o
Yet you can still post on Slashdot.... Is that your mother's basement you're in?
You're so full of shit marine biologists think you're a constipated whale.
Fuck off with your bullshit.
What part of my comment is bullshit?
*crickets*
That's what I thought.
Working 60+ hours is burnout material.
My IT Support contracts for the last 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week. When I'm not working the full-time that pays the bills, I'm working 20 to 40 hours for my own company.
My ebooks are available at Amazon and Smashwords. You can also visit me at my author website, personal blog, YouTube and Twitter.
Eventually your co-workers tend not to like you and don't want to work with you, regardless of whether they "have to" or not. It leads to stress in the office and employee turnover, which leads to more costs and delays.
If you have to be an asshole in your own department, than management is doing a poor job.
When I got started after the dot com bust, I got my A+, Network+ and Microsoft Windows 2000 certification. That set me up for IT Support contracts that start at $10 per hour (minimum wage) in Silicon Valley.
The same reason why we the US has a shortage of skilled trade workers: we told kids that college was the path to a great paying career. Skilled trade workers are retiring, foreign skilled trade workers are going home and no one are replacing them. After the dot com crash, kids saw no future in computers and went into healthcare. As skilled IT workers retire and foreign IT workers go home, no one is going to replace them.
Eh, My mind is other places today. Thanks for the patience.
I know that feeling. I got 30+ people jabbering in my headset on a conference call that doesn't really concern me. But something might roll downhill and I'll need to shovel it up.