Harold Williams Cooney

Efforts to use eBay charity auctions to sell Zanfirico marbles for community food programs enter week 4 with victories at its back and obvious defeat ahead. I am a mess. I have no problems admitting that. Pertinent here because this is my website (thank you) and also because everything I…

The first auction for this idea was able to close on August 1st, so now greater than 2 weeks of auctions benefiting the Houston Food Bank have closed. PAID DATE AMOUNT15-Aug-26 $36.0013-Aug-26 $70.0012-Aug-26 $45.0011-Aug-26 $83.0010-Aug-26 $65.6409-Aug-26 $63.0008-Aug-26 $55.5507-Aug-26 $57.0006-Aug-26 $54.0005-Aug-26 $60.0004-Aug-26 $43.0102-Aug-26 $51.0001-Aug-26 $15.50 Overall, I am thrilled. $698.70 donated…

It’s not necessarily true that I’m a bumbling idiot, I just like to experiment. Which does necessarily mean I fail at a lot of stuff. New to the list for me, GlassPass: a miserable dud of a glass sales app. I have lots of glass that I can’t sell because…

I do not believe there will ever be logical and enforceable rules that will meaningfully prevent AI from making damaging inroads into human creativity, artistic productivity, or Etsy. I proposed that Etsy prevent itself from being one more organization in our society whose future is framed by the things it…

I was almost driven to state wide arson by the difficulties of listing another week’s worth of charity auctions to eBay. It got figured out, so no William Tecumseh Sherman for me. The South has listed again. My eBay account and listings are not set up cleanly or correctly, and…

I’ve been muttering along; that’s a combination between ponderous productivity and adjacent-to-debilitating chronic depression. It’s all Haagen-Dazs and American Spirits over here, buddy. Things progress quite well despite my unfocused, blue haze outlook. I now have 2 businesses: The hilarious term “concepts of a plan” seems to apply here. At…

The first thing I want to get squared away this morning (11 a.m.) is the charity marble auctions I started running on eBay two days ago. I know so little about what I am doing, I do not even know how to link these auctions. Let’s see here… Commenting on…

Fervent belief in the basic vocational promise of progress and productivity is a requirement to wake up happy in my life as a struggling human and craftsman. I am a hippie-wook bead craftsman. That’s both a pejorative and my earned vocational title. My skillset is derivative of the Degenerate Arts,…

Previous experience with my life tells me that I am talking to myself with these words. Which is absolutely fantastic because this allows me to focus on facts as I see them. Providing some functional connection between these facts is the purpose of this blog. Unfortunately, even when discussing things…