The
title of this site comes from the following passage, as it
struck me as an interesting concept as well as a colourful
phrase when I came across it.
"The
techniques of autostimulation are extremely various.
Just as one can notice that stroking oneself in a certain way
can produce certain only partially and indirectly controllable
but definitely desirable effects (and one can then devote some
time and ingenuity to developing and exploring the techniques
for producing those desirable effects in oneself), so one can
also come to recognize that talking to oneself, making
pictures for oneself, singing to oneself, and so forth, are
practices that often have desirable effects. Some people
are better at these activities than others. Cognitive
autostimulation is an acquired and intimately personal
technique, with many different styles."
--Daniel
C. Dennett, Elbow Room
This
site doesn't have many visitors at the moment, but that will
hardly affect the content or frequency of posts herein.
I hope that doesn't bother you ... like it matters.
You may follow this link to add your own comment, but this is
what another "visitor" had to say
I
have been webmastering my own sites for several years now. (You
could say I've been the master of my own domain.) My
original home site entitled The
World Bri'ed Web is now in its seventh incarnation or
so. I write and record music, and use the site incessantly to
pitch the albums to all few of my visitors. I now invite you
to read my thoughts, rants, tidbits, musings, and brain-rains.*
May your stay be full of fruit.
*Brain-rain:
(n) Not as severe as a brain-storm, and hardly as vulgar as a
brain-fart, but somewhere safely in between.
November 1, 2004 FIRST ONE'S FREE
My name is Brian. And I'm a recovering eBay Addict.
It's been four years since my last bid ... and I'm sad to say ... I relapsed this past month. I thought I could help myself. I thought it was a safe time. I thought I could trust my dealer. Unfortunately, the experience became more trouble than it was worth. I should have known better. I eventually came through and received my item after weeks of ignored e-mails and no follow up. I was in ... hell. I was always worrying, feeling I got ripped off.
I was lucky this time. I don't know if it was the SquareTrade case I opened, or if the fates were just kind to me. But everything's okay again.
I guess, what I learned most from this experience is that feedback ratings are nothing to base a decision on. There's so much more to take into account than the fact that 2000 people gave the guy an AAAAA+++++. If I had to give advice, I'd say ignore the auctions from people with insane feedback numbers coming in every day! These sellers are likely to miss a thing or two, and you can just forget it if you want some sort of e-mail response!
I'm a little wiser now. I'm taking steps ... bidding on smaller items ... from sellers who aren't generating the profit of their home business from overcharged shipping. You can learn a lot by browsing random sellers' feedback, 200 per page at a time. "Ooh, in the last WEEK 'reallygreatebayer420' got 521 positive and 17 negative!" That's a sure sign you might want to avoid.
I
have been webmastering my own sites for several years now. (You
could say I've been the master of my own domain.) My
original home site entitled 
November 1, 2004