Ah, how I miss the wry humor of Rocky and Bullwinkle "episode" title pairs. There was a formula to it: generally the first was funny by itself and the second a pun upon the first, like "Pottsylvania 6-5000, or, This episode title sucks" which I will not stoop to explaining.
Anyway, my yearnings for my childhood don't stop at Moose und Squirrel. I've been messing with LEGO bricks, as I have mentioned. I had picked up some assorted Technic parts and sets on eBay, and the last of them ended today. I'd really just been looking for some nice big wheels, and it had four huge ones, and the price was under ten pounds (GBP, that is). What was cool, though, is what amuses me about the auctions I actively take a role in winning: the way that I win. Most people know now about the programs people use to get bids in just at the very last possible moment (called sniping) but I nevertheless can beat people using these programs. The auction I speak of now saw several separate bids from me, one at $2, another at $4.86 and a final, winning one at $5.67 (I usually account for over half of the bids in a a given auction). What matters isn't the odd amounts so much as the exact moment they were cast. The last one I managed to get in with mere milliseconds to go and I managed to beat the other guy's bid by fourteen hundredths of a second and five pence.
Anyway, I thought it was cool. And I had nothing better to write.
| Bidding History (Highest bids first) |
| User ID | Bid Amount | Date of Bid |
mdl42 ( 88 ) | $5.67 | 26-Jan-04 21:22:27 GMT |
| mdl42( 88) | $4.86 | 26-Jan-04 21:20:36 GMT |
| mdl42( 88) | $2.50 | 26-Jan-04 19:05:48 GMT |
| mdl42( 88) | $2.00 | 26-Jan-04 16:55:10 GMT |
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