I'm Back

Once I went down the comics-sorting rabbit hole I pretty much stopped doing everything else, including reading/posting to LJ. Partly because I was becoming such a comics-geek bore that it seemed like it would be counter-productive to keep posting. Well, I'm happy to report that I managed to unearth all of Richard's 70+ boxes of comics (I think) and make at least one pass through them. In the process, I managed to generate:

• the biggest spreadsheet I have ever seen (19M last time I looked)


• a sprawling comics website


• about $2,100 (less the $527 spent on bags and boards and boxes and grading books)

It's been fun. Now I have something else to do, so I'm tapering off. Still hope to keep improving the comics site and maybe make some sales there. And I'm thinking about taking a table at the spring comics convention.

Got a job!

Oh, yeah. The reason I'm backing out of the comics obsession phase is because I have a new job (started this past week, actually). The company is between names at the moment, which is a little awkward. The official name is now Cassatt, but my email address is still sharon@unlimitedscale.com. It looks like it'll be fun, but I was a little nonplussed when I showed up for my first day and discovered that they had no office supplies at all, no wastebaskets, no telephone system ("We all had cell phones, so we figured, why bother?") and very little heat. There was a computer on my desk, however. Geeks.

Cassatt is a startup (never would've guessed that, right?) whose mission in life is to take a cluster of Linux machines and make it act as much as possible like a super-computer. These people all used to work together somewhere else - guess where? Give up? The answer can be found on their website, which is, until further notice, www.unlimitedscale.com.