Eric Abrahamson's Blog

TECHNOLOGY IS OF THE DEVIL!

2007-11-17T11:17:00.000-08:00

TECHNOLOGY IS OF THE DEVIL! FUCK ME!

Resume XXXIV

2007-08-06T19:29:00.000-07:00

ERIC ABRAHAMSON'S IT AND (SOFTWARE) SALES RESUME

ERIC ABRAHAMSON, Yale University, Pierson '71
945 Ohlone Ave., Apt. 965
UC Village Albany, East Village
Albany, CA 94706
510-809-1369 x6149
ericabrahamson@aya.yale.edu

Gentlemen:

I am writing in response to the position in your internet ad. I feel I would be an asset to your organization. After Yale University Class of '71 (www.yale.edu), I completed three years of the Information and Computer Science Major at UC Irvine and Cal State Northridge and I am already accepted to Cal State East Bay in Hayward for to finish my final year of the B.S.C.S. I have also applied to Cal, the University of California at Berkeley (www.berkeley.edu) to be a senior in the College of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for Fall 2007; I will hear April 30. I tell them that if I do well enough and the financial aid (I'll get off my SSI) holds out I may become the oldest grad/professional student seeking perhaps a joint degree with two of the following: M.D./J.D./M.B.A./Ph.D. in Computer Science or Music from Cal and/or Ph.D. in Medical and Biological Informatics from UCSF. I am taking Business 10, Introduction to Business, and English 1A, Reading and Composition, at Berkeley City College for Spring 2007 and if I get two A’s I am already automatically accepted to CSEB as a senior in the Computer Science Major. I went from UCI to Cal State because of low grades even though I got straight A’s in Lowell High School, have an I.Q. of 159, and got B’s (High Passes) at Yale because I have a learning disability, a bad memory, possibly Alzheimer’s, I think from the chronic prostatitis I caught at age twenty-six. I have five years of programming experience and two years of sales experience. I am applying to Silicon Valley companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Google, and Sun for such positions as software engineer, database administrator, and programmer/analyst. I want a six-figure job.

I met Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm (www.wavygravy.net) when they were security at the Woodstock Music Festival and lived with them on their commune in Llano, New Mexico. I hung out with them in Berkeley, and I attended Adult Camp at their Camp Winnarainbow (www.campwinnarainbow.org, www.skypilotclub.com) in Laytonville three times. I worked security with them and the Hells Angels at pop festivals, and they also are backstage for the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Bobby Weir and Ratdog (www.dead.net). I was a lifelong friend of Hog Farmer Little Richie Shirley, who I met at Woodstock, who worked in the Dead’s backstage crew and whose wife Andrea worked in the Grateful Dead office and is head cook at Camp Winnarainbow. Wavy Gravy, his wife, Jahanera Romney, Ram Dass, Bobby Weir, and Dr. Larry Brilliant also have an opthamological blindness project in Nepal and India called the SEVA Foundation financed by benefits by artists like Crosby, Stills, Nash,and Young, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Loggins and Messina, Buffy Ste.-Marie, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Odetta, The Band (that backed up Bob Dylan), John Lee Hooker, Kris Kristofferson, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. I am volunteering for the IT Director. I am taking the Eudora emails, putting them into Excel or Notepad, and putting those into The Raiser's Edge nonprofit fundraisers' management database software. I also play lead guitar and sing a Jerry Garcia Tribute in a Grateful Dead (and other bands we like) cover band with originals: The Eric Abrahamson Band. I am CEO, President, Chairman of the Board, CIO, Boss, Owner, Founder, and God, of EricAbrahamsonsBoutique.com, an ecommerce international business offering licensed Grateful Dead Merchandise, downloads, and electronics. For the last fifteen years I have been married to Laurie Senit, a Hollywood actress and comedian with a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA (she got straight 'A's' in M.F.T. grad school at Pepperdine University, was a Penthouse Pet, and was invited to the Playboy Mansion).

I would like to impress you with my family's prominence. My mother, Lucille Abrahamson, was elected to the San Francisco School Board for six years and served two years as President, worked in the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Childcare under Mayor Dianne Feinstein, and was appointed to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission by Mayor Frank Jordan, the former police chief. My sister, a Bel-Air lawyer, worked in the White House as Assistant Chief-of-Staff to Vice-President Bush and is Chairman of the Barbara Bush Literacy Campaign. She also worked on AIDS research as a board member of the Jonas Salk Foundation at UCSD in La Jolla, is a board member of the National Geographic Magazine, and runs a thinktank, the Jefferson Institute. My brother-in-law, Jonathan Aronson, is a USC Professor of International Relations, formerly department director, and Executive Director of the Annenberg Center for Communications. My father, James Abrahamson, who still lives at 29 West Clay Park in San Francisco, is a retired restaranteur and institutional furniture salesman and has a B.A. from Stanford University in Economics. My brother-in-law got his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from Harvard University. My sister got her J.D. from Boalt Hall at Cal, her Ed.D. from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, and her M.A. in Art Education from the Stanford University School of Education. I was also accepted to Stanford University as a freshman, and UCSC, but chose to attend Yale University instead.

I would like to share my enthusiasm for this position with you. You will never find a better or more dedicated worker. I am a dynamic people person and am well-liked by my co-workers. I would be pleased to become part of the team. I work hard, love computers, am a strong programmer, and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. I have an IQ of 159, am the world's greatest IT executive, and am truly the best and the brightest.

I will be pleased to discuss my background in further detail upon meeting with you in person. I look forward to hearing from you in the near future. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Sincerely yours,
Eric Abrahamson

COMPUTER SKILLS:

LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP), Visual Studio 2005, Visual C#.NET, Visual C++.NET, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, VB, ASP.NET, VBScript, JavaScript, PERL, Mathematica, Lisp, Ada, PL, CGI, Java, Enterprise JavaBeans, MFC, COM+, ADO, GUI, RMI, CORBA, Site Server Commerce Edition, HTML, DHTML, XML, MathML, C, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly, SQL, Visual Studio.NET Enterprise Developer, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Drumbeat, Frontpage, Visual InterDev, Webmaster, Ecommerce, Windows DNA, Intranet, Multi-tier, Software Engineer, SQL Server, Access, Filemaker Pro, FoxPro, Windows XP Professional, Office 2003, Windows 2003 Server, Apple Macintosh OSX, VMS, UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, Game Programmer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2/2007 - present PEACE ACTION WEST, Berkeley, CA
Phone Canvasser
End All War For Our Grandchildren--$20/year
FORESTS FOREVER, San Francisco, CA
Phone Canvasser
Global Warming and Save The Sequoias
TELECOMM, INC., San Francisco, CA
Telesales Representative
Phone Sales of the S.F. Chronicle--$19.99 for 52 weeks
11/2005 - 3/2006 INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY, Los Angeles, CA
Inside Sales Representative
I loved this job. I sold subscriptions on the phone to this competitor to the Wall Street Journal. Top salespeople made $2000 per week. I won the 'stops' sales contest where, if you make seven sales by Thursday at three, you get to call the stopped subscriptions, and you make more money.

8/2005 - 9/2005 e-QUIZitive, LLC, Los Angeles, CA
Medical Software Sales Executive
I sold MedQ web-based JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) compliance software to hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, nursing homes, staffing agencies, and independent nurses. The job ad stated the salary as $150,000-$200,000 a year. During this time I did much internet research about, learned much about, and became very interested in pursuing a career in software sales. I quit when at least ten business advisors from the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) of the Small Business Administration advised me by email to run from a company that couldn't tell me how many installed users they had who I could use as references when selling to my clients, and that had a commission 'hold back' clause in the contract, among other things.

6/2002 - 7/2003 CHABAD JEWISH CHARITIES, Westwood, CA
Telemarketer/Fundraiser
I did telemarketing/fundraising for this organization which presents the Chabad Telethon on TV every fall. My ex-wife Laurie got me involved, and she was working there recently. The building is located across the street from UCLA. We raised $36,000 in three months, breaking all sales records.

2/2002 - present SELF, Los Angeles, CA
Computer Teacher
I do tutoring at people's homes in basic internet, wordprocessing, spreadsheet, and database skills, as well as a little programming.

10/1999 - present ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY - L.A. CHAPTER, Los Angeles, CA
Database Administrator
I do this Los Angeles Records Controller Committee Chair volunteer job for thisprominent computer society (www.acm.org, www.ieee.org) whose national branch accredits the computer science department curriculum in every university.

12/1996 - 1/2002 aNET COMMUNICATIONS, Los Angeles, CA
Web Developer and Programmer
I did web development in Visual InterDev, Drumbeat, and Cold Fusion and programming in Java, Visual C++, and Visual Basic. aNetCommunications is an internet service provider that does web hosting, web site design, and e-commerce solutions.

6/1996 - 12/1998 DR. BOB MATIRKO, Santa Monica, CA
Computer Consultant and Guru
I set up his computers, taught computer skills, and did medical transcriptions of psychological evaluations.

9/1995 - 6/1996 NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY, Las Vegas, NM
Tutor/Computer Lab Assistant
I helped students with their programs and was responsible for maintenance ofthe NMHU Computing Lab. The lab at that time had ten Gateway P-100's and P-75's, about twenty 486 DX2 66's, and twelve printers, including two laser printers.

9/1993 - 6/1994 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD, Bakersfield, CA
Instructional Computing Lab Consultant
I assisted students with the four instructional computing labs with VAX's,terminals, PC's, and Macs, maintained the labs, locked up, etc.

EDUCATION:

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE - Computer Science Major

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE - Information and Computer Science Major

YALE UNIVERSITY - Philosophy and Religious Studies Major

"Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad!"

2007-05-30T14:12:00.000-07:00

It's Wednesday, May 30, 2007. I'm thinking of going over to Wavy & Jah's House, a few blocks away from here at Rubicon, down Henry Street. Wavy's doing his art show on Saturday with the new band Revival All-Stars in Marin--I'm planning to go. Although I missed the 71st Birthday SEVA Benefit last week with Mickey Hart. I was planning to go of course--but a lot of money was missing from my bank account. 75% of it went to overdrafts. Now the Internet Radio is playing Midnight Moonlight. I would have gone. They moved it from the
Berkeley Community Theater to the Grand Theater--the new name for old the Avalon Ballroom at Van Ness and Sutter. "The Alaskan morning sunrise will be the brightest you've ever seen." "Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad!"

2007-05-22T18:29:00.000-07:00

Second Post, Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Hi, there, from the Berkeley City College Library Computer Lab. I was going to go over to Wavy and Jah's Henry Street House today, because B said, "No contact!" twice on Saturday, but I'm going Thursday after I wash my clothes. B also said (after someone said, "A new one!"), "No, he's an old one who came back!" That's how they talk, I swear. You figure it out; I'm still trying--you bet I'm thinking about it.

Anyhow, I saw a poster for Wavy's art show in Marin at the San Geronimo Community Center, selling art from Stanley Mouse (I've talked to Mouse a coupla times, once at a meeting at the Beatnik Museum in North Beach where Wavy was billed and spoke) and Dave Sheridan and featuring a new band called the Revival All Stars with members of Zero (who played at his 71st Birthday Seva Benefit last Friday at the Grand with Mickey Hart), JGB, and Big Brother. Maybe I can paste in a poster:

Summer of Love 2007Wavy Gravy Summer of Love Revival
June 2nd 4-9pm

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love with:The Art of Wavy Gravy, Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), Dave Sheridan (1943-1982) and Gilbert Shelton of Freak Brothers, MOT and DAVA.
The Music of The Wavy Gravy Summer of Love Revival All-Stars.
Featuring members of Zero, The Jerry Garcia Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and other musical luminaries.
Plus a performance from Wavy Gravy himself!
Art Opening: 4-5:30pm;
Music 5:30-8:30pm.All ages welcome; FYI some art will contain adult themes.
$10-25 sliding scale; Partial Proceeds Benefit Camp Winnarainbow.
Check www.sgvcc.org for more details as they are confirmed.
Wavy Gravy: Collage artist and Woodstock legend Wavy Gravy is known as ³The Clown Prince of the Counter Culture² (High Times) and has performed with many of the musical giants of our time including Thelonious Monk, Peter, Paul & Mary, Tiny Tim and many others. He is cofounder of Seva foundation and Camp Winnarainbow, the performing arts camp he has codirected for over 30 years.
Jerry Garcia: The beloved guitarist and lead vocalist for The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) was also a talented artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and had his first exhibit at the legendary Weir Gallery.
Dave Sheridan: The iconic underground cartoonist Dave Sheridan (1943-1982) is best-known for his characters Dealer McDope and Mother¹s Oats, his collaboration on the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and his political cartoons for the Berkeley Barb.
Stanley Mouse: Best known for album artwork and other images associated with the Grateful Dead, Mouse¹s extensive career as one of the most sought after rock artists also includes early posters for Big Brother and the Holding Company, album art for Journey and has included shows at the Smithsonian Institute and MOMA.
MOT: Influenced by Salvador Dali, Rembrandt and other diverse sources, neo-surrealist sensation MOT is celebrated for his completely unique portraits of 60¹s stars, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Mona Lisa and much more.

DAVA: Multimedia artist DAVA, widely known for her 1400 shows around the world as Tickles the Clown (creator of the ABC¹s of self esteem broadcast), her work spans jazz and rock music, beat poetry (compared to Allen Ginsberg), collage art and painting. She is also the subject of many paintings including portraits by Stanley Mouse that will be in the show.

Here's my updated resume:

ERIC ABRAHAMSON'S IT AND (SOFTWARE) SALES RESUME ERIC ABRAHAMSON945 Ohlone Ave., Apt. 965UC Village Albany, East VillageAlbany, CA 94706510-809-1369 x6149ericabrahamson@aya.yale.edu Gentlemen: I am writing in response to the position in your internet ad. I feel I would be an asset to your organization. After Yale University Class of '71 (http://www.yale.edu/), I completed three years of the Information and Computer Science Major at UC Irvine and Cal State Northridge and I am already accepted to Cal State East Bay in Hayward for to finish my final year of the B.S.C.S. I have also applied to Cal, the University of California at Berkeley (http://www.berkeley.edu/) to be a senior in the College of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for Fall 2007; I will hear April 30. I tell them that if I do well enough and the financial aid (I'll get off my SSI) holds out I may become the oldest grad/professional student seeking perhaps a joint degree with two of the following: M.D./J.D./M.B.A./Ph.D. in Computer Science or Music from Cal and/or Ph.D. in Medical and Biological Informatics from UCSF. I am taking Business 10, Introduction to Business, and English 1A, Reading and Composition, at Berkeley City College for Spring 2007 and if I get two A’s I am already automatically accepted to CSEB as a senior in the Computer Science Major. I went from UCI to Cal State because of low grades even though I got straight A’s in Lowell High School, have an I.Q. of 159, and got B’s (High Passes) at Yale because I have a learning disability, a bad memory, possibly Alzheimer’s, I think from the chronic prostatitis I caught at age twenty-six. I have five years of programming experience and two years of sales experience. I am applying to Silicon Valley companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, HP, Google, and Sun for such positions as software engineer, database administrator, and programmer/analyst. I want a six-figure job. I met Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm (http://www.wavygravy.net/) when they were security at the Woodstock Music Festival and lived with themon their commune in Llano, New Mexico. I hung out with them in Berkeley, and I attended Adult Camp at their Camp Winnarainbow (http://www.campwinnarainbow.org/, http://www.skypilotclub.com/) in Laytonville hree times. I worked security with them and the Hells Angels at pop festivals, and they also are backstage for the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Bobby Weir and Ratdog (http://www.dead.net/). I was a lifelong friend of Hog Farmer Little Richie Shirley, who I met at Woodstock, who worked in the Dead’s backstage crew and whose wife Andrea worked in the Grateful Dead office and is head cook at Camp Winnarainbow. Wavy Gravy, his wife, Jahanera Romney, Ram Dass, Bobby Weir, and Dr. Larry Brilliant also have an opthamological blindness project in Nepal and India called the SEVA Foundation financed by benefits by artists like Crosby, Stills, Nash,and Young, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Loggins and Messina, Buffy Ste.-Marie, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta, The Band (that backed up Bob Dylan), John Lee Hooker, Kris Kristofferson, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. I am volunteering for the IT Director. I am taking the Eudora emails, putting them into Excel or Notepad, and putting those into The Raiser's Edge nonprofit fundraisers management database software. I also play lead guitar and sing a Jerry Garcia Tribute in a Grateful Dead (and other bands we like) cover band with originals: The Eric Abrahamson Band. I am CEO, President, Chairman of the Board, CIO, Boss, Owner, Founder, and God, of EricAbrahamsonsBoutique.com, an ecommerce international business offering licensed Grateful Dead Merchandise, downloads, and electronics. For the last fifteen years I have been married to Laurie Senit, a Hollywood actress and comedian with a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA (she got straight 'A's' in M.F.T. grad school at Pepperdine University, was a Penthouse Pet, and was invited to the Playboy Mansion). I would like to impress you with my family's prominence. My mother, Lucille Abrahamson, was elected to the San Francisco School Board for six years and served two years as President, worked in the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Childcare under Mayor Dianne Feinstein, and was appointed to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission by Mayor Frank Jordan, the former police chief. My sister, a Bel-Air lawyer, worked in the White House as Assistant Chief-of-Staff to Vice-President Bush and is Chairman of the Barbara Bush Literacy Campaign. She also worked on AIDS research as a board member of the Jonas Salk Foundation at UCSD in La Jolla, is a board memberof the National Geographic Magazine, and runs a thinktank, the Jefferson Institute. My brother-in-law, Jonathan Aronson, is a USC Professor of International Relations, formerly department director, and Executive Director of the Annenberg Center for Communications. My father, James Abrahamson, who still lives at 29 West Clay Park in San Francisco, is a retired restaranteur and institutional furniture salesman and has a B.A. from Stanford University in Economics. My brother-in-law got his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from Harvard University. My sister got her J.D. from Boalt Hall at Cal, her Ed.D. from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, and her M.A. in Art Education from the Stanford University School of Education. I was also accepted to Stanford University as a freshnman, and UCSC, but chose to attend Yale University instead. I would like to share my enthusiasm for this position with you. You will never find a better or more dedicated worker. I am a dynamic people person and am well-liked by my co-workers. I would be pleased to become part of the team. I work hard, love computers, am a strong programmer, and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. I have an IQ of 159, I am the world's greatest IT executive, and I truly am the best and the brightest. I will be pleased to discuss my background in further detail upon meeting with you in person. I look forward to hearing from you in the nearf uture. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. Sincerely yours,Eric Abrahamson COMPUTER SKILLS: LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP), Visual Studio 2005, Visual C#.NET, Visual C++.NET,Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++, VB, ASP.NET, VBScript, JavaScript, PERL, Mathematica, Lisp, Ada, PL, CGI, Java, Enterprise JavaBeans, MFC, COM+, ADO, GUI, RMI, CORBA, Site Server Commerce Edition, HTML, DHTML, XML, MathML, C, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, Assembly, SQL, Visual Studio.NET Enterprise Developer, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Drumbeat, Frontpage, Visual InterDev, Webmaster, Ecommerce, Windows DNA, Intranet,Multi-tier, Software Engineer, SQL Server, Access, Filemaker Pro, FoxPro, Windows XP Professional, Office 2003, Windows 2003 Server, Apple Macintosh OSX,VMS, UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, Game Programmer PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2/2007 - present PEACE ACTION WEST, Berkeley, CAPhone CanvasserEnd All War For Our Grandchildren--$20/year
FORESTS FOREVER, San Francisco, CAPhone CanvasserGlobal Warming and Save The Sequoias
TELECOMM, INC., San Francisco, CATelesales RepresentativePhone Sales of the S.F. Chronicle--$19.99 for 52 weeks
11/2005 - 3/2006 INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY, Los Angeles, CAInside Sales RepresentativeI loved this job. I sold subscriptions on the phone to this competitor to the Wall Street Journal. Top salespeople made $2000 per week. I won the 'stops' sales contest where, if you make seven sales by Thursday at three, you get to call the stopped subscriptions, and you make more money. 8/2005 - 9/2005 e-QUIZitive, LLC, Los Angeles, CAMedical Software Sales ExecutiveI sold MedQ web-based JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) compliance software to hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, nursing homes, staffing agencies, and independent nurses. The job ad stated the salary as $150,000-$200,000 a year. During this time I did much internet research about, learned much about, and became very interested in pursuing a career in software sales. I quit when at least ten business advisors from the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) of the Small Business Administration advised me by email to run from a company that couldn't tell me how many installed users they had whom I could use as references when selling to my clients, and that had a commission 'hold back' clause in the contract, among other things. 6/2002 - 7/2003 CHABAD JEWISH CHARITIES, Westwood, CATelemarketer/FundraiserI did telemarketing/fundraising for this organization which presents the Chabad Telethon on TV every fall. We raised $36,000 in three months, breaking all sales records. 2/2002 - present SELF, Los Angeles, CAComputer TeacherI do tutoring at people's homes in basic internet, wordprocessing, spreadsheet, and database skills, as well as a little programming. 10/1999 - present ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY - L.A. CHAPTER, LosAngeles, CADatabase AdministratorI do this Los Angeles Records Controller Committee Chair volunteer job for thisprominent computer society (http://www.acm.org/, http://www.ieee.org/) whose national branch accredits the computer science department curriculum in every university. 12/1996 - 1/2002 aNET COMMUNICATIONS, Los Angeles, CAWeb Developer and ProgrammerI did web development in Visual InterDev, Drumbeat, and Cold Fusion and programming in Java, Visual C++, and Visual Basic. aNetCommunications is an internet service provider that does web hosting, web site design, and e-commerce solutions. 6/1996 - 12/1998 DR. BOB MATIRKO, Santa Monica, CAComputer Consultant and GuruI set up his computers, taught computer skills, and did medical transcriptions of psychological evaluations. 9/1995 - 6/1996 NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY, Las Vegas, NMTutor/Computer Lab AssistantI helped students with their programs and was responsible for maintenance ofthe NMHU Computing Lab. The lab at that time had ten Gateway P-100's and P-75's, about twenty 486 DX2 66's, and twelve printers, including two laser printers. 9/1993 - 6/1994 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD, Bakersfield, CAInstructional Computing Lab ConsultantI assisted students with the four instructional computing labs with VAX's,terminals, PC's, and Macs, maintained the labs, locked up, etc. EDUCATION: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE - Computer Science Major UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE - Information and Computer Science Major YALE UNIVERSITY - Philosophy and Religious Studies Major

Monday, May 21, 2007

EricAbrahamsonsBlogII

Welcome to EricAbrahamsonsBlogII! I'm sitting in the Berkeley College Library Computer Lab on Center Street near Shattuck Street near the downtown BART station in Berkeley, CA, and I'm happy and feelin' good, Praise The Lord!, Amen!, Hallelujah!, Hello Julia! The Chinaman next to me is squirming--must be one of them religious right fanatics. I'm gonna do him in:

666 The radio is playing:

When I was just a little young boy
Mama said, "You"ll never get far!"
Baby, baby wants a diamond ring
Go down to the jewelry store packin' a gun
Dupree said, "I'll pay this one off to you in lead!"
There's no wonder your reason goes bad
Jelly roll drive ya so mad.

Judge said, "Son, it's gonna cost you your life,"
Baby, baby gonna lose her sweet man
Dupree come out with a losin' hand
The judge said, "Son, I know your baby well,
But that's a secret I can't ever tell

First thing ya know your gonna pull that trigger
Some like their jelly, some like gold
Just to get baby a diamond ring.

He's still here
Doesn't understand a word of it, but he's still reading my brand-new blog.

Now they're playing "Mountains Of The Moon".
Fuck off and die.

Hey, Tom Banjo, fuck off and die.
All along, all along the mountains of the moon
Hey Tom Banjo, it's time to matter
The earth you through this time
The earth all through this
Down by the marsh king's daughter
Clothed in tatters always will be taught did you go
High-ho, the carrion crow, fol-de-rol, bend to me
All along, a

Jack Straw by Robert Hunter and the Grateful Dead

We can share the women
We can share the wine
We can share what we got of yours
Cuz we done shared all of mine.
Keep on rollin'
Just a mile to go
Keep on rollin'
My old buddy
You're movin' much too slow.

I just jumped the watchman
Right outside the fence
Took his rings, four bucks in change
Ain't that heaven-sent

Burns my ears to listen
Burns my eyes to see
Cut down a man in cold blood
Might as well be me!

We used to play for silver
Now we play for life
One's for sport and one's for blood
At the point of the knife
Now the die is shakin'
Now the time must fall
There ain't a winner in the game
He don't go home with all
Not with all.

Leavin' Texas
Fourth day of July
Sun so hot, clouds so low
The eagle filled the sky
Catch the Detroit Lightnin'
Out of Santa Fe
Great Northern, out of Cheyenne
From sea to shinin' sea.

Gotta go into Tulsa
First train we can ride
Gotta settle one old score
One small point of pride
There ain't a place a man can hide
Keep him from the sun
There ain't a bed to give us rest now
You keep us on the run.

Jack Straw from Wichita cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave
And laid his body down
Half a mile from Tucson
By the mornin' light
One man gone and another to go
My old buddy, you're movin' much too slow
We can share the women, we can share the wine.

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May 23

2005-05-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

Well, I didn't get in to Lama Foundation. Beth emailed me and said they didn't get enough registrations for the summer retreats so they're cutting back on the Summer Stewardships and just trying to keep the Foundation together. But I called them today to appeal and they said call back so I'm going to call them back tomorrow and try to talk to Austin. Quit smoking. Broke up with Laurie, but I'm going to go see her tomorrow, since I didn't get into Lama. I'm happy, and I must admit, stoned on pot. All you junior narks out there can fuck yourselves. Your own karma will pay you back.

I went out with my sister Joan this aft and she bought me a pair of running shoes. She's very nice but basically selfish as those Rethuglicans she hangs out with. Too bad I didn't get into Lama; I could go out there and cut myself off from her and her frumpy husband. I hate this board-and-care home/concentration camp. I just keep out of there and keep busy, like now I'm typing and creating at the UCLA Library. I'm going to call a lot of truck stop owners next week and try to sell them Willie Nelson Biodiesel, when I get the money for a phone card--Joan leaves me without a phone, the bitch! But at least she didn't take anything else back or away today.

I'm going to call Chara in a few minutes. She said Saturday, when i spoke to her last, to call her in the next 10 days. She's moving across the road from her house. Boy, do I crave a cigarette. But all I get is water. I bought a pack of herbal Ginseng cigarettes Saturday when Joan paid me my weekly $30 (she always pays me on a different day) but they made me crave the regular nicotine cigarettes I smoked last night at the Cubensis show. I haven't had a cigarette all day, and I have to quit now, because I can't afford to buy any more cigarettes.

The sun is setting outside the library window. I think I'll call Richie Shirley, too. Richie has got terminal liver cancer. Before he had Hepatitis C. The doctor gave him 1 month or till the end of the year; he's trying to last till October when his grandchild will be born. I feel so bad about it. The doctor said he'd operate but it'd kill him; or give him chemo but he'd wish he were dead, or it would kill him. I wonder what words of wisdom he'll give me. Last time he told me he was reading The Diamond Sutra. I said, "I read that, too." He said, "But you have to understand it.
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This is a pretty good writing session. It helps to be stoned. I guess I'll write for about 7 more minutes, until the library bell chimes 7, and then I'll get a drink of water and make my phone calls. I'm really tempted to go bum a cigarette from one of the students but then I'd be hooked on them again and it's a big hassle; not to mention bad for your health. They'd probably be OK if they didn't harm you and cause heart disease and lung cancer.

Four more minutes. What to write about. I'm feeling pretty good. I guess that's because I'm in this beautiful library, whereas usually I'm in that dingy, dirty board-and-care home from which there's no escape for most inmates. I'm going to ask Drs. Fine, Riceberg, and Reisbord to help me get out. We just have to talk Joan into it--I can afford my own place on my SSI ($800).

I need an acid trip, or at least 'shrooms. They're around, I just can't afford it. Poor me. My parents are going to invite me up to their house in San Francisco. Hope I can take their car (a Mercedes) and go see Richie where he lives at Camp Winnarainbow.

LATER...Well, I took a break, and called Richie, and Andrea answered. She said they're about to have dinner, and to call back in an hour. She's the nicest person (Richie's wife) you ever want to meet, like Mountain Girl. So I'm going to leave to call her back in about 25 minutes. I can't call Chara because that phone wants a dollar for a call whereas most pay phones around here want 50 cents. But I'll call Chara next week. I have to call Andrea back. The burdens I carry being poor. "Walk this world when I was born to fly." as Robert Hunter says in Liberty.

I've pretty much lost the craving for cigarettes--I'm just drinkin a lot of water. Speakin of drinkin, last night I had a beer with my pot, went down good. What I hate about Brentwood Manor is they don't allow drinkin, and they believe that, the damn Catholics. What to write about? Wish I could call Chara, too. I thought it would be 50 cents a call. They're ripping off these UCLA students. And then I'll go to bed hungry tonight again. Slept through breakfast. And I still get fast, like everyone else in Brentwood Manor, on this damn malnourishing food.
This place is pure punishment. Punishment for being labeled mentally ill.

I think I'll spend the remaining 15 minutes surfing my favorite websites: skypilotclub.com, key-z.com, and dead.net.

May 16

2005-05-16T18:45:00.000-07:00

I have to admit, I'm high, stoned. Now if any of you are Jr. DEA Pigs out there, you can just fuck yourselves. On the way up the hill to the UCLA Library I was thinking: Beyond a certain age, when you think of the world's future, you have to think beyond your own lifespan, for the good of all. So I'm thinking about the environment, and some type of U.N-like world government.

John Lennon said, "Imagine there's no countries." Everyone would get a vote. A World Congress or World Federalism, everyone would be represented. We would make agreements on transportation. At the Llano Hog Farm the only rule was, "Do whatever you want as long as you don't hurt anybody." The Rainbow Family Gathering has only three rules, no murder, rape, or child molestation. These will be punished. Do we want to vote on laws, crime and punishment?

We need to preserve knowledge for the future: farming, manufacturing, and recorded music, and education, to start out. Murray Bookchin wrote of, "Post-Scarcity Anarchy." We don't want overpopulation so we want abortion and birth control, progressivism.

May 14

2005-05-14T10:38:00.000-07:00

Haven't gotten into Lama yet. Hafta get out of Brentwood Manor Board-and-Care Home. Today I'm going to Kashi (Ma Jaya) Ashram on Huntley St. in West Hollywood for kirtan & yoga. The vibes are so bad at the bored-and-care, with the fascist Mexican staff always yelling at you and lying to you. I have to go back there for lunch in 20 minutes.

The night before last Mark Barasch, my classmate from Yale in 1967 was in town to sign his book, Field Notes On a Compassionate Life. He has a Buddhist teacher. He's suffered a lot; his first book was about having cancer--later books were about it's remission.

I'm reading The South Beach Diet and I know I've really got to lose weight since I have both heart disease and diabetes if I don't want to wake up dead with a heart attack. Every body at Brentwood Manor gets the classical prediabetes pot belly from the bad food.

I looked at Kashi's website and she had a quote from Neem Karoli Baba, her and Ram Dass' guru, to repeat, "Ram, Ram, Ram" over and over and at first you may not do it with devotion, but later you will. I'm going to try to mentally repeat the word "Ram" all the way over to the ashram (where I've never been) on the bus.

May 11

2005-05-11T10:40:00.000-07:00

Still haven't heard from Lama yet. And it starts in 11 days. John Franklin invited me to a party on Saturday. His Dead tribute band was rehearsing, and I met his fiance, Marilyn. She is a disciple of Ma Jaya, formerly associated with Ram Dass, her guru is Neem Karoli Baba, and formerly called Joya. If I get into Lama, we will be going down to the Neem Karoli Baba ashram in Taos every week. Marilyn was talking about coincidences. Namaste!

Back in April

2005-04-23T19:26:00.000-07:00

It's April 23, and I'm finally back. It looks like Laurie and I are breaking up, and I'm hoping to go back to Lama Foundation in Taos, NM in about a month. I just have to get accepted. I was there last summer. It's so beautiful there. It's surrounded on three sides by National Forest, with a natural spring. And I've got a job to do there: Commissioned Sales Representative for Willie Nelson BioWillie Biodiesel. I'm selling to truck stop and gas station owners. It's vegetable oil, mostly soy, it costs $1.79 a gallon, and it can be burned in any diesel engine unmodified. There are about 300 biodiesel filling stations in the U.S., and 4 of ours in Texas. So our company is just taking off.

My Laurie

2005-02-25T15:06:00.000-08:00

I'm sitting here in the office where Laurie works, listening to Laurie's bird-like voice in the next cubicle. Last night I came down here and a friend of hers said, "Why don't you go back with Laurie?" I said, "I never really left." I'd been telling her I'd known Laurie for 14 years, and lived with Laurie at least 5 years.

The radio is playing, "She's some kind of wonderful! Yes she is!" So, today, Laurie called me at home about an hour and a half ago. She said she was going to a movie dubbing tonight and invited me to come. She told me to come over to her office. So the whole way down here on the bus I was very, very happy thinking about the relationship between me and her.

A few minutes ago she came in and I grabbed her around the butt and rocked her back and forth. Laurie is still very beautiful, and she has enormous breasts. She's appeared in Playboy and was a Penthouse Pet. I'm so in love with Laurie today I'm overflowing with happiness. "My cup runneth over." "Reach out your hand/If your cup be empty/If your cup is full/May it be again."--Robert Hunter.

I'm going through this process of healing from all the emotional damage this whole episode with the board-and-care home has caused, and I'm doing it! I'm beginning to heal from all the stress! I'm starting to be happy all the time. I told Laurie's friend last night, "When I was living with Laurie I used to lie in bed each night and say to her, 'I'm happier today than I was yesterday!'" I'm starting to get back that fullness of joy that I used to experience before all this happened. And she was the catalyst. And I'm with her now. Oh joy!

Love is a wonderful thing. As Bob Dylan said, "It can cure the soul/It can make you whole/True love brings such harmony." I really do love Laurie, and she always tells me that she loves me. Love is the meaning or purpose of life--the reproduction and continuation of the species. I was hoping for years that Laurie and I would have kids. It wasn't meant to be, but maybe someday we could adopt some or will have some. I can dream. But I am a happy with her alone--it gives us more time for each other.

Thursday, what's it rhyme with?

2005-02-10T21:21:00.000-08:00

Well, I got the job but I had to quit. Couldn't keep up on those steep hills with the medical condition in my legs. Too bad, it was something I believed in and it paid $14-20/hr. Well, I'll get another one. So I'm back to my job searching routine--all day every day emailing out resumes.

Today I came down to Laurie's office and I've already sent out resumes for the last 3 days. Also, Brentwood Manor moved me to another room than Carl's, with a new roommate, Mark Blair. He's a lawyer and works in his father's office on Beverly and Wilshire. Quite an interesting guy.

Gotta close this out--Laurie's getting ready to leave.

Tuesday News

2005-02-08T22:24:00.000-08:00

Well, I might not be posting here for awhile. I passed the job interview at California League of Conservation Voters today. I go in tomorrow for observation, and if I like it and they like me I start the next day. It pays $10/hr. plus commission. Most make $14-$20/hr. The title is Enviromental Activist. I'm doing something I believe in.

Monday, Monday

2005-02-07T20:00:00.000-08:00

Well, today was a good day. Went to exercise class this morning. Not much else happened. Jordan Romney wrote me an email thanking me for mine and my encouragement and said he might be able to find web design work for me. Big job interview tomorrow.

Sunday, The One Day

2005-02-06T18:34:00.000-08:00

Back in the good ol UCLA library. Watched the Super Bowl, or as Babbs says on skypilotclub today, the Stupor Bowl, with the great half-time entertainment by Paul McCartney of The Beatles fame. Paul sang Drive My Car, Get Back, Live and Let Die, and wound up with Hey Jude. During Hey Jude he encouraged the audience to sing along with the chorus, and said, "Let me hear the whole world singing!" And when he sang, "Don't carry the world upon your shoulders" he emphasized the word "world". Pretty impressive; he could save the world. He had a four-sided stage that you could see from every side. And great fireworks, flames, and light show. I think Willie Nelson was in a commercial, too. H & R Block, and I think he had tax problems once.

Yesterday night I did volunteer work at Laurie's office. I'm writing an article for their newletter called "Expose of Board-and-Care Homes". Let's try out the color lettering: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Babbs put a picture of Chinese Communist revolutionaries marching with a picture of him and a Sky Pilot flag on top of skypilotclub.com. Kind of jogs my mind because I've been reading the Revolutionary Communist Party literature the students hand out here on the UCLA campus and also there are lots of Chinese students here. But Babbs couldn't know anything about what I'm doing--it must be a trend in society, or a coincidence.

Saturday, ahoy!

2005-02-05T13:39:00.000-08:00

I'm thinking of a different job. I'll probably call this one, but I foresee problems. I just realized, about these other jobs, that they might be door-to-door, in which case I'll think twice. I was thinking they were raising donations on the phone. One's for California League of Conservation Voters, one's to put the Democrats back in control of the Senate in 2006, and the other one is Santa Monica rent control. The first 2 pay $10-20/hr. and the last $14-24. I'll have to see. I'll call them Monday.

There's also a job I got an interview for for a "Best Of" section of a TV show called "Here and Now". This month it's best restaurants; next it's best nightclubs. You try to get them to sign a contract. The ad claims you can make $2K-$5K per week. Maybe I will go for the Majital Solutions LLC/Savitron job after all--my feet are hurting!

Cubensis isn't playing this Sunday, so maybe I'll volunteer at Laurie's office and send out resumes on their computers. Apple just introduced a smaller "shuffle" iPod, so maybe it didn't fly. I haven's seen one in public. The only one I've seen is my nephew's, and that was mounted on a speaker stand. I became interested when Robert Hunter, the Dead's lyricist, said in his journal that the Dead had signed a deal with iTunes to sell their music over the Internet. But then he said, as a sarcastic "solution" to some world problem, "stick an iPod in your ear". Is Apple going to be in trouble if they can't sell the iPod? Steve Jobs has probably already thought of that. I heard on the radio today that Apple is currently the most-recognized brand in the world.

What else to write about? Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday--might as well watch that since the Cube isn't playing. Then Monday call all these jobs. I'm sitting in the UCLA Library, and I'm gonna email out more resumes. I'm getting a response!

Thursdays's Word

2005-02-03T09:10:00.001-08:00

Well, I don't know yet if I'm going to take this job or not. For one thing, the closest offices are in Irvine and Fremont, and I'm not sure how to get the travel money. Secondly, there are 2 websites, majital & savitron, and the savitron website is 2004, a year later, and has about half the products to sell. So I think that the company didn't do as well as they hoped in the 2003 website. I may do it, tho.

Some other reasons are that I returned a call from another tech sales job, for Anaya Telecom, and he told me that his sales job was "real grunt work" and that "most sales people start and then quit right away" and that "I wouldn't want you to work here for 6 months and then find out that you haven't gotten anywhere". But I'm staying optimistic that I'll land a good job.

Went to Cubensis shows both Sunday and Monday nights; Monday at the House of Blues in West Hollywood with Highway 61 Revisited, Joel's band. Smoked a lot of pot and drank beer both nights and came to the conclusion: "Drugs are the answer!" If I do take this job, hope I can make enough money to go to the Phil Lesh and Friends show March 12 at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.

That used to be named San Francisco Civic Auditorium--across the street from City Hall, where my mother used to work. We'll take over more some day. We shall overcome, someday!

Thursdays's Word

2005-02-03T09:10:00.000-08:00

I just got a new job!

2005-02-01T10:34:00.000-08:00

I'm doing Tech Sales for Majithal LLC. Electronic. Printed circuit boards, transformers, power supplies, cases, and software. EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL. And the boss, Nick Tehrani, says "you can make a lot of money."

Skypilot Circus

2005-01-30T14:25:00.000-08:00

Skypilot Circus

2005-01-30T14:10:00.000-08:00

Skypilot Circus

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A Thought

2005-01-28T19:43:00.001-08:00

Eric Abrahamson's Blog

2005-01-28T19:31:00.001-08:00

Friday, January 28, 2005

Well, Laurie is coming to get me. Happy. I'm thinking about Linda. Happy. Life is good, out here on the range. Catch you on the flip-flop!

Eric Abrahamson's Blog

2005-01-28T19:31:00.000-08:00