Published by Matt Gondek May 13th, 2008
in Art, culture, vandalism, books, money and smart.
So yesterday I wrote about my encounter w/ the old dude in the leather cod-piece.
Today, I’ll tell you about something even worse.
As I was mentioning, I went to Mount Pleseant over the weekend to help w/ my GF’s yard sale. At one point in the day, her mom asked me to help her in the garage. When I walked in, I seen a comic book laying on a work bench. It was the Incredible Hulk, issue 181.
If many of you dorks like me out there know, this comic is the first appearence of Wolverine. It’s a classic. It’s old. It’s worth allot of money. About $1,000 to be precise.
There was a major problem though. Someone wrote, in ink, on the cover “Mom don’t throw in trash”. Also, someone cut out a coupon inside the book. Worthless. A classic comic ruined. For you non-nerds out there, this is the equivalent of a hot girl flashing her boobs at a party while you’re in the other room.
The irony in all of this is that her brother must of wrote this when he was younger and asked her not to throw it away because it would be valuable. But by leaving the note on the cover, he basically threw it away himself.
Unless you’re the type to black out drunk and forget large chunks of your memory, you may recall me talking about how to get bum bum loads of friends on myspace the other day.
It brought up the argument that all the OTHER people on sites like this are ALSO trying to accumulate hoardes of friends and will probably never check out your page. However, it was decided that although this may be true, it would still be beinficial because you could send out bullitens to alert others of your goings on.
But, now I finally have a resolution to this matter. I didn’t realize this until last night, but if you have over 1,500 friends on myspace, they no longer show you bullitens. Something having to do w/ it taking up to much memory on their servers. Therefore, all those people you’re adding probably have more than 1,500 friends and are missing the bullitens anyways.
It seems that going to these sites and adding people is completely worthless, other than showing off that you have 60,000 friends. Diz-amn.
Well, now we know.
Give me money.
Published by Matt Gondek March 31st, 2008
in Career, zombies, Design, books, advice and money.
Over the weekend I picked up this book shown above. It offers allot of help for designers on how to price their services. Their is also allot of other interesting information and resources like help writing a contract which is mega vital in life.
Some of the prices they suggest seem like they’re geared more towards old dudes who’ve been in the game for years and years, but it’s still nice to see how much one could and should make whoring out your drawing arm.
Check it out.
P.s. a shirt I made for TDWP is on the front page of merchnow.com 
Published by Matt Gondek March 12th, 2008
in Career, advice, facts and money.
Recently I did me some design work for a company overseas. Because they can’t mail me cash money American, and they don’t have a paypal they offered to do a Electronic Funds Transfer.
An electronic funds transfer is the fancy name of what you do every time you swipe your debit card at the store, except you’re not actually there to do any swiping.
The person giving you the funds will need your Bank Name, bank address, routing number, and account number.
The routing number and account number can be a confusing bitch. Here’s how to find them. Whip out one of your personal checks and check that bottom left corner. There will be three groups of numbers. The first group is your routing number, the second is your account number. The third is your check number.
Now, you may be thinking that if you give someone this info that they will be able to steal money out of your account. Not so. Think about it like this. Every time you use a check, the person you’re giving it to has that info. Every time you use your debit card, they also have your info. Frankie says relax. Maybe you should take his advice.
Anways, you hook them up w/ this info, and pretty soon you’ll be livin’ so large w/ all that extra green deposited directly into your account.
Word to your mother.
Published by KP February 14th, 2008
in Politics, america, government, health care, money and election.
Last night, I watched a very interesting documentary about health care in America. This movie is called Sicko and it was produced by Michael Moore. All I have to say is WOW, everyone needs to see this movie whether you have health care or not.
In the movie, Michael Moore interviews different people who have either been denied medical care because they were uninsured or because their health insurance didn’t want to pay the money. At some points in this movie, I was almost in tears because it was just so sad to see people be denied cancer treatment or necessary surgeries because they couldnt pay for it or their insurance felt the treatments were “experimental” or”medically unnecessary”.
I learned alot about the American health care system and how corrupt it is. its run by the government, HMO’s were approved by Nixon and President Bush gets paid off by the drug companies so they can charge whatever they want for medications. The system is so bad that almost 50 million people are unsured. I cannot believe that this country would deny help to anyone who needs it. they even deny care to people who served during 9/11.
Either health care needs to be universal like in canada and france or the health care workers needs to come together and either have a strike against the health care businesses or the new president needs to come up w a new plan for REAL change, unlike G. W. Bush. This leads me to another reason why you need to watch the movie. They talk alot about Hillary Clinton and how she wanted to univeraslize health care when she was first lady. thats fine and dandy, but they also explain that she was another one of the gov’t figures who was PAID off by the health care system not to have it changed. That is something to think about since the elections are coming up… Obama anyone?
The movie explains that univeral health care really does work, they go to france and canada and talk to people who use the health care system. they get timely and effective health care; infact, the american health care sytem scares them, most of them are alfraid to come here in fear that they will get injured and be denied care while here.
Watch this movie! Also, if you have any health care stories about being denied and you would like to share, post em or email em to me!
