From time to time I get calls to participate in surveys. They hold out the carrot, telling me it’ll just be a couple of hours and they’ll pay some amount of money that is non-zero. But then they ask questions to see what sort of “bin” I fall into. How much to I make, what kind of job do I have, etc. Whatever it is, I tell them the truth and I never seem to make it past those questions. Today they were asking questions about animation, and they didn’t like that I was 40-years-old and living with my parents. WHO ELSE WATCHES ANIMATION? Hell, the only other thing that would match those conditions better would be something regarding Star Trek.<\/p>\n
OK, so I FILLED UP MY iPod mini! I just got the latest Daft Punk<\/b> (which is just as repetitive as you’d imagine) and I couldn’t fit the whole album onto my iPod without deleting other stuff. I only have music on here that I can listen to on “shuffle.” I can’t pick things to delete off of here. I’m sure other people would hate what I have, but I find it odd that I have four gigs of songs I want to hear.<\/p>\n
Oh, and this is all going up early because I’ve got the punes. I’ve been watching too many medical programs, like “House” and I’m thinking I have some sort of weird organ failure. Good thing I’ve found that everyone around me has the same symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From time to time I get calls to participate in surveys. They hold out the carrot, telling me it’ll just be a couple of hours and they’ll pay some amount of money that is non-zero. But then they ask questions to see what sort of “bin” I fall into. How much to I make, what kind of job do I have, etc. Whatever it is, I tell them the truth and I never seem to make it past those questions. Today they were asking questions about animation, and they didn’t like that I was 40-years-old and living with my parents. WHO ELSE WATCHES ANIMATION? Hell, the only other thing that … Continue reading What the hell kind of geek are they looking for?<\/span>