{"id":2778,"date":"2004-12-24T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/12\/24\/ask-the-magic-box\/"},"modified":"2004-12-24T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2004-12-24T20:45:07","slug":"ask-the-magic-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/24\/ask-the-magic-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Magic Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4357'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gggabe.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"197\" align=\"left\"><\/strong>I<br \/>\n        often ask my father, the Dowbrigade, why he spends so much time blogging.&nbsp;It<br \/>\n        seems like such a waste of time. Even if people are reading it, they<br \/>\n        don&#8217;t<br \/>\n          affect your life so what differnce does it make?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He said a blog is like a magic box that can<br \/>\n          get you anything in the world you need, if you know how to ask it<br \/>\n          the right way.&nbsp;I told him I needed a job and a place to live<br \/>\n          before my step-mother Norma gets back from Ecuador. He told me to write<br \/>\n          it as a blog posting so here goes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I am 20 years old and have just returned to<br \/>\n          the states from helping my brother build and administer a small hotel<br \/>\n          in the Andes mountains of Peru. I am studying Psychologyat a local<br \/>\n          community college (Bunker Hill) but most of my classes are in the evenings<br \/>\n          so I can work different times. At least until I am sure I can handle<br \/>\n          all my classes I don&#8217;t want to commit to more than 25 hours a week,<br \/>\n          so what I really need is a part-time job.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I am pretty good with a keyboard and know Office<br \/>\n          and doing research on the Web. I am friendly and get along well with<br \/>\n          people.&nbsp;I am also strong and healthy and not afraid of physical<br \/>\n          work. Also, I am fluent in Spanish and have supervised Spanish-speaking<br \/>\n          workers at construction sites.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So far, I have interviewed at a temp agency for a permanent<br \/>\n        job in their headquarters, at a theater company that needs a stage manager,<br \/>\n        at an environmental PAC and with two start-up companies, plus some restaurants.<br \/>\n        I have been offered two positions so far, but unfortunately both of the<br \/>\n        offers said they would be unable to pay me until some time in the future.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Finally, I am also looking for a roommate situation<br \/>\n          since living with the Dowbrigade and Norma Yvonne in their one-bedroom<br \/>\n          apartment in Watertown definitely isn&#8217;t going to work. However, I would<br \/>\n          like to remain nearby so I can wash my clothes, raid the refrigerator<br \/>\n          and ask Dad for loans.<\/p>\n<p>posted by <a href=\"mailto:oni_617@yahoo.com\">Gabriel<br \/>\n    Feldman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often ask my father, the Dowbrigade, why he spends so much time blogging.&nbsp;It seems like such a waste of time. Even if people are reading it, they don&#8217;t affect your life so what differnce does it make? He said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/12\/24\/ask-the-magic-box\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}