Comments on: Local comedian’s brush with Facebook wealth

By: Emily'sBro

Emily'sBro — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:37:25 +0000

I think this dude just wrote you a really succinct and accurate bio. Let’s get that on your onesheet stat

By: Emily'sBro

Emily'sBro — Mon, 21 May 2012 03:36:02 +0000

@WhiskerWatch – Neither can live while the other survives

By: wrybread

wrybread — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:05:42 +0000

Ha, well done.

And since you’re here, any comment on why the linked post was removed?

By: Emily Heller

Emily Heller — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:02:18 +0000

So true

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:35:58 +0000

Haha, have you ever spent a Winter (or Summer) in the Midwest? THAT, my friend, is why we come here.

By: rent is too damn high

rent is too damn high — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:27:34 +0000

What I want to know is why all you people come out here? Can’t you just work on your “ideas” back in Illinois and give us locals and natives a break? Please?

By: Emily Heller

Emily Heller — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:37:38 +0000

HEY! Just as a follow-up – I showed my brother the picture of you after that show and he said, “Normally when people say they saw someone who looks like me, I don’t believe him, but that guy really fucking looks like me.”

Also as for the post being down: I realized I probably shouldn’t be ruffling any millionaires’ feathers right now from my lofty perch at this temp job. I hope you enjoyed it while it was up though!

(the story ends with him giving me twenty dollars)

xoxo
Gossip Girl

By: Teotwawki Jones

Teotwawki Jones — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:56:47 +0000

Girls with braces and faces like that are always eventually exposed as trannies and liars.

By: HotwireMY

HotwireMY — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:55:40 +0000

Wait, I thought Justin Timberlake grew up in Tennessee?

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:20:23 +0000

Bilbo, I’m afraid you’re off the mark, here. Many of the most successful people I know in the technology field don’t have any degree at all (hell, some of them are highschool dropouts). Myself, I only went back to school after I’d been working in the tech field for almost ten years.

The tech field is one where we are lucky enough to be judged by WHAT we know, not HOW we know it, for the most part. And that is something I really like about it.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:37:30 +0000

In other cases, perhaps. In my case, you are categorically incorrect.

My brother, for example, has a History degree from a small liberal arts college in Illinois. Tomorrow, he will be speaking for an hour at Maker Faire about a machine that he invented and makes a pretty significant amount of money off of.

You speak as though there is a magical, mystical being reigning over us that only allows a select few to become successful and that just isn’t the case. Play the victim all you want, but hard work and good ideas WILL get you somewhere if you have the personal wherewithal to either:

1. Execute the ideas yourself.

2. Find the right people to do it for you under your direction.

By: Bilbo

Bilbo — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:36:20 +0000

Totally, but no one said anything about being an engineer. Going “into technology” generally means ivy league grads working in marketing or adwords.

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:32:28 +0000

Ivy League degrees certainly don’t hurt, but I know quite a few folks who have liberal arts degrees from SFSU and do engineering work.

Experience is worth more than a degree.

By: Bilbo

Bilbo — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:26:37 +0000

False – you need a pedigree. The people you know with those degrees didn’t get them from a CSU. They got them at places where the name on the degree matters more than the subject of the degree itself.

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:11:14 +0000

Just happened to me too! I feel ripped off.