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Hilarious Craigslist Counter Offer

RE: Web Site Developer (Atlanta, GA ) (Unbelievaville)

Date: 2010-03-05, 8:30AM EST
Reply to: gigs-yun5h-1629467975@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

Sir or madam,

This offer is not good for me, I have a counter offer:

Need customer with lots of money to pay me to build web site: I will not build the web site, I just need you to pay me for doing it. Later, if you like the work I didn’t do, you can pay me more and I won’t build the next one either. This will make you feel real good because you will helping me out a lot, and I really like making people feel good.

Do not call if you actually want a website, this pay is for no web site only.

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Here’s a 3 pronged cold slap in the face by reality.

1. If someone builds you a free web site to add to their portfolio, it will be crap, because if they could actually build you a good website for free, they can build a good website for other people for cash.

2. If you business means so little to you that you will not even pay to have a quality web site built, you are too stupid to be in business to begin with, so you will probably go broke.

3. We do not need another web site in our portfolio nearly as much as you need a good website for your business.

I once did a web site for a call girl. I built it for free, but at least she offered SOMETHING. You don’t even have the integrity of a whore.

*your original post************************************
Web Site Developer (Atlanta, GA )
Date: 2010-03-04, 11:32PM EST
Reply to: gigs-jcb5d-1629245685@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

I am looking for a web designer who can build my website and that is looking to build their portfolio. THIS POSITION DOES NOT PAY. If you have the time and can assist me, please submit references and a resume. I need the website built as soon as possible.

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS POSTING IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR PAY!!!!!!!!

* Location: Atlanta, GA
* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: no pay

PostingID: 1629245685

Location: Unbelievaville
it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: no pay
PostingID: 1629467975

No Comments by Tom Biancos Blog on March 5, 2010

filed in The Funny Strange Me

Hi Allison my Name is Tom and I work from Home

So about two seconds ago I saw a post on the twitter from @AllisonNazarian titled, Coming Out Of The Closet: My Name Is Allison And I Work From Home. You can read her post hear.

Anyway it made me think that I to have always felt, or had some anxiety or insecurity, about the fact that people think that if you work from home don’t have a real job, or your on one of those crazy get rich from google things, or you just hang out and play madden all day. (Ok it is really tempting to play the PS3). But I took moment to reflect, and I realized I am way, way more productive at home then I ever, anywhere else in my whole life and more productive then any office person.

Take today for example. up at 8:30 – made coffee, the commute and the coffee took 3 min tops, so lets call it 8:40. From there it was productivity time till about 1:30. Quick break for lunch at my desk, while I watched a video on how to install some software on my server, real downtime 15 min. its now about 4:45 I realize that everyone is coming home, I have not showered and we need dinner, Oh and I really do need a break at this point, so shower, dinner, we had Fajitas and chips and cheese dip, from scratch.

When your a chef you can rock dinner out in about 30 min. So Eat, Chat, and Kiss the babies and were back, Total Time, 1.5 hours. I am sure I will get a little slack as the night goes on. I will have to take a peek at the olympics, aye. But I wont till crash about 1 am, so shave a hour for Olympics. Add that up and 8:30 to 1 am is 17 Hours back out 3 hours for dinner and other stuff and your looking at 15 hours or real work.

Compare that with the office crowd who lets just say have no way to be as productive, with commutes and pesky coworkers. I think I hated that the most. People you work with some who you love, some who you don’t, but you have to be chatty just the same. Oh lets not forget the pointless meetings or the meetings about meetings. So that being said I think we have got em beat. And now I as well am happy to come out of the closet and say hi my name is Tom and I work from home and office people your just jellouse!

No Comments by Tom Biancos Blog on February 17, 2010

filed in The Marketing Me

Gnocchi and Polenta

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No Comments by Tom Biancos Blog on February 15, 2010

filed in The Foodie Me

Sherpards Pie done let’s eat!

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No Comments by Tom Biancos Blog on February 14, 2010

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First Google Buzz now Google Chart Tools – Wow

What are Google Chart Tools?

The Google Chart Tools enable adding live charts to any web page.

The advantages of the Google Chart Tools are:

A rich gallery of visualizations provided as:

Image charts – using a simple URL request to a Google chart server

Interactive charts – using a Google developed JavaScript library

Can read live data from a variety of data sources

Simple to use and free

Image charts – using a simple URL request to a Google chart server.

Interactive charts – using a Google developed JavaScript library.

Should I use an image chart or an interactive chart?