Morgan Drake Eckstein

@morgandrake (2136)

United States

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Discussions (100)

Morgan Drake Eckstein's Discussions

Are you a former Amazon Associate?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 3 Jul 11

I am a former Amazon Associate. And not by choice either. I was one of the Amazon Associates who were cut loose when Colorado passed a law saying that sales tax had to be collected on online sales that originated inside the state...

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Does anyone here publish work though Smashwords?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 2 Jul 11

Recently, I have been looking around various self-publishing and ebook sites. I am looking to find a decent ebook outlet for the novel that I am working on. Now, one of the sites I have found is Smashwords. Smashwords looked ok...

ebooks

formatting

smashwords

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Have you recieved an email from Libya yet?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 2 Apr 11

The other day, I recieved my first email that was claiming to be from someone in Libya. They were asking me to share my bank information with them, so that they could transfer their wealth out of the country. I am not sure...

libya

scams

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Do I know enourgh to work for an oil company?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 25 May 10

I just recieved a junk (spam) email (obviously some scam or another). In part, it read: "Job Offer: Optima Integrated Energy Services is pleased to offer you a job. We trust that your knowledge, skills and experience will be...

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Oh goody It is update day

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 25 May 10

Oh goody. It is update day. The joy of Microsoft Windows updates swells my heart as I look at the little icon on the bottom of the screen telling me that it is time to obey and install the latest updates to my computer. Maybe...

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How do you create a email mailing list?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 22 Dec 09

Yesterday, I was sending out emails wishing people a happy holiday. I was doing this manually, and some of the addresses were not in my address book; plus some of them were in different addresses books (I have a couple of...

business

mailing list

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1 person

Do you sell back your college textbooks?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 17 Dec 09

One of the things that a lot of college and university students do is sell back their textbooks at the end of the semester. I have a few friends who do. My wife also occasionally sells back the ones that she does not believe she...

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4 people

Are smart people really miserable?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 24 Nov 09

Last night, I was watching television; House M.D. to be specific. The storyline was that really smart guy had been miserable when he was functioning on all mental cylinders, and much happier being dumber. And it made me wonder...

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2 people

Do you really believe that health care reform is going to happen?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 8 Sep 09

Given all the disagreements and opposition to reforming health care in this country, does anyone really believe that we are going to see a reform happen? Personally, I do not think that it is going to happen. Periodically,...

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Do you care that Geocities are going away?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 13 Aug 09

A few weeks ago, I recieved an email from Yahoo stating that Geocities (their free webhosting) is going to close in October. Basically, the notice was trying to sell me Yahoo hosting at eight dollars a month. Now, I am not...

geocities

yahoo

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3 people

What is in your price index basket?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 11 Aug 09

I was just reading a blog (Luke Sidewalker) and realized that I do not remember the last time that someone mentioned the cosumer price index on the news. Sidewalker, whose blog is mainly about picking up loose change, is starting...

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2 people

Trouble rating and tagging discussions

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 1 Aug 09

Something that have been happening to me here for the last couple of days is that I am having trouble rating and tagging discussions. I will click on a plus for a person, and the page refreshes and the response still looks...

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1 person

How much did you expect to earn on Mylot?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 30 Jul 09

Reading a discussion about another site, I realized that we all walk into money making sites with certain expectations. For instance, when I join writing sites, I expect to earn a stack of pennies only after I create a ton of...

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3 people

Do you expect instant success when you join a site?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 30 Jul 09

Something that I noticed among those people who are involved with the various writing sites (Helium, Associated Content, etc.) is that a lot of people join them, write a couple of articles, then become upset when the money does...

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5 people

Who died and made you editor?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 18 Jul 09

Yesterday, I had a piece that I had written rejected because...well, I am not exactly sure. The form rejection said that it did not exhibit correct grammar, sentence structure, spelling and punctuation, which is like saying that...

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4 people

How many survey sites to join for a decent income?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 13 Jun 09

Here is something I have always been curious about, and I thought that I would just ask those who know. How many survey sites does one need to join in order to earn a decent income at it? For instance, I once ran across a...

online earnings

surveys

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2 people

TV show Cops: Innocent until proven guilty

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 3 Jun 09

The other day, I am slacking off, watching tv when Cops comes on. And at the beginning of the program, the voiceover says, "All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" (or something like that)....

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1 person

What are Triond writing standards?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 29 May 09

Ok, I tried to find this information on the Triond site, but couldn't. So I am going to ask it here: What are the standards that Triond wants in their articles? For instance, is there a minimum word count? I know with a...

standards

triond

writing

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Lost shoe, silly wife threw it outside, now it is buried in the snow

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 27 Mar 09

Somewhere outside, under the snow, is one of my shoes. The wife (no, she is "the wife" for this story; I am not sure I want to claim her by calling her "my wife"), anyways, the wife threw one of my shoes out the door at the stray...

humor

married life

shoe

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7 people

Are fair book reviews possible?

Morgan Drake Eckstein @morgandrake (2136) • United States 13 Mar 09

While I was working on my latest book review, I found myself wondering if it was even possible to do a fair and unbiased book review. It might have been the fact that I could hear a voice in the back of my head saying "If you...

book reviewing

book reviews

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2 people