Hey cool!
I had been whining yesterday about my horrid luck and lo and behold if it didn’t change. Not till I got home tonight but anyway…
I was surfing around the other night and found this site called “Take My Tech” ran by Jason Burns of Philoking.com. Basically what he does is he posts his tech stuff that he doesn’t need anymore and then, well here let me use his words:
* Leave a comment on the item you want.
* When the item reaches 100 comments it will be randomly given away to one of those readers!
* Emails will not be sold or used for other reasons
* one comment per item
* rude or profane comments will be deleted!
Anyway, the comments finally hit 100 for the backpack I had been coveting and when he did the drawing I won, woo hoo.
From what I understand he is counting on ad revenue to pay for shipping and running the site. Sounds like a pretty cool idea and I hope it works out for him, hey maybe he could even turn a profit if enough people hit the site! Go check it out, you really have nothing to lose!
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every so often the universe hiccups and I wind up with the goodies that usually go elsewhere. I recently scored an 80-gig ipod just for being nice when my good ol’ 15-gigger died on me. Sometimes I try to make it make sense, how some things work out and some don’t. Usually I just try to surf with it. However, I do find that one good thing can make up for a bunch of bad things - or at least, a bunch of things that aren’t good. Hope the momentum keeps going in the right direction for you!
Congratulations - I’m on my way to check out his site.
Cas
[insert beavis/butthead-type laugh here] I went there, ready to shop and didn’t know what anything was…
Enjoy your backpack and congrats on being the first winner!
I will however, forward the site to some geeks I know