Entries Categorized as 'eBay stuff'

Something a bit special on eBay: George Burns’s opera scarf

Date August 30, 2006

A present to him from Gracie Allen…
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Cleaning out the storage: manuscripts, etc, going up on eBay

Date August 28, 2006

Before going to the Discworld convention in Leicestershire the week before last, Peter and I had to stop by the storage where we keep various books, authors’ copies and other stuff that there’s no room for in our house (we were hunting for a specific Terry Pratchett book for the charity auction at the convention). […]

What I always suspected

Date June 26, 2006

nk(t+1) — nk(t) = w(k-1)(t)*n(k-1)(t) — wk(t)*nk(t) + sigma(k,1)*u(t)
Or in other words:  Sniping is the best way to win on eBay.
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Attn DD eBay store buyers: postal dispute has delayed shipments

Date February 17, 2006

I’ll be e-mailing everybody about this over the course of the day, but I just wanted to put a note here, since a lot of people seem to read the weblog.
Just so you know — there is a postal dispute going on in Northern Ireland that is affecting shipments of stuff from my eBay store […]

Sick cat week

Date February 9, 2006

(sigh) That graphic over there (which occurred to me very early this morning) is the only worthwhile thing I’ve gotten done today. Everything else has been about sick cats. If you’re not a cat person, or feeling sympathetic, skip this blog entry….
Goodman — the all-white cat and the middle-ranked of our three males — found […]

Book sale

Date January 19, 2006

Late last fall, my literary agent relocated from offices on the upper West Side of Manhattan to new, more spacious quarters down in Chelsea. As usual, there was a fair amount of tidying, and many extra or unneeded copies of books were boxed up and sent off to their respective authors via surface mail.
Late last […]