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Expert in mathematics, computers, income tax, with a wide variety of interests.
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 96
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Member Visits: 9,423
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Total Visits: 166,712
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About Arthur.Rubin
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Note: My wife had knee replacement surgery on 4/18/05 and on 4/17/06. Things seem to be generally going well, but she's now having problems in her wrists, shoulders, and hips.
I'm afraid I haven't been as active as I would like in writing reviews on Epinions. Be assured that I am still attempting to read and rate (if appropriate) all reviews in the categories in which I have special interest, and will read reviews on request -- although I may not always rate.
My present E-mail address is presently under an MS Blaster and SWEN attack. As I was mailbombed and listbombed by a former Epinionator, I'm not going to report my alternate E-mail address here. But -- I think I've got the problem resolved, unless one of my MSPs objects to the multi-megabyte bandwidth usage. If you use the word "Epinions" in the subject line, I'm likely more likely to pick up your message if it falls into the spamtrap. Also, my previous E-mail address (@mcimail.com) disappeared (along with the company) at the end of June 2003.
I'm presently working for a Fullerton, California aerospace contractor. I just started there as a full-time employee on June 18, 2001, after working there as a contractor for 6 months. I hope to continue there, but, one never knows...
I live with my wife, and 3 2 cats.
NOTE: If you have any questions about my reviews or my ratings, please Email me. I may not change my mind, but I'm willing to listen.
Expert qualifications:
Ph.D. in Mathematics from Caltech (1978)
Novell CNE (1995-2000)
California Income Tax preparer (1990-1997)
Computer programmer since 1970
Open Directory Project editor since 2003.
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Income tax writeoff
Topic: Anything having to do with income tax
Date: April 16, 2002
Second date: August 15, 2002 (for anything having to do with tax refunds only, or if I receive an extension request by April 15)
Third date: October 15, 2002 (if I receive and approve an E-mailed extension request)
Writers signed up
Hard_To_Please writeoff
Mark "Hard_To_Please" was one of the best known members on Epinions.com, and one of the
most read, in spite of his posting fewer reviews than I have. He had recently informed us
(the Epinions Community) that he has cancer. Many of us had decided to participate
in a Hard_To_Please writeoff, with the ERoyalties to be forwarded to Mark, and now to cancer research.
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ING Direct news and the hall of shame. The following members' only Epinions presence seems to be spamming comment sections of bank reviews and/or writing an unhelpful review of the bank asking people to open accounts through them. Please block them so that non-members and those with filtered accounts won't see this spam.
mikehuangsd (Bonus points for adding dozens of blank lines to his comments, so that naive users will see only his comments, and for persistence, and for deleting previous comments.)
vgirl77 (Bonus points for persistence, and for deleting previous comments.)
divabomb (points for originality -- "my cat needs a heart transplant")
littlestar04 (Bonus points for persistence, with a little credit for not doing it recently.)
shopster2
club_queen
davidkassa
uratbstdru (No comments, but a bonus for copying from the ING webside and copying the review to a completely inappropriate topic -- now gone)
kristensue2
ilknurkeskin (No comments yet)
mtbiker99 (No comments yet, but the review was impressive, although now gone.)
jbfly
ingdirect (Well, at least his/her goal is clear!)
mgarzalaw
goldie123
socalcrazy44
tmmycat
bank_referral (see ingdirect above)
thebigt786
mhy729
rajks_78
purple_puffin
rtrackstar (on probation)
rkvarmap ticketed
taurusbox ticketed
ingdollars (see ingdirect above)
iangondola
abergou
homeofnasa
joshsisson
ehighfield
partnerdeal
orangesavings
bank0081
lalitavaz
vasilisaivanov
jls416
countsam
rc1378 (offering an additional $3) (and gone)
zfcaribe
coolguyatyahoo
mrmeauff
ni66anorm
nakahk14
voiddweller
opinion_kated
sandowl
brimur7083
camurphy81
annanew
esteeu2
nosliwelyk
onshoppe
dinodcbc2
ingmarathon
mtnlvr26
love2shopsales
ckojam
This list includes members posting their comments after an arbitrary date, and includes only those members who add comments to others' ING reviews and have no reviews OTHER than unHelpful ING reviews. Suggestions for additions and deletions to the list will be considered.
Since Epinions no longer allows you to pull up my reviews by category, I'm including a few pulldown lists (last updated 23 January 2006). Please let me know if there are any improvements I can make to this web page, as well. (** NEW ** means less than a month before the "last update" date above. ** UPDATE ** means updated (other than just to clean link formatting) less than a month before the "last update" date above.)
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| My mother died October 24, 2002. She died quickly, apparently of an aneurism. |
| My mother-in-law died April 30, 2006. She died, apparently in her sleep, from complications of pneumonia. |
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