I am a Mechanical Turk. My name is not really Mark, but for this writing, it is. I found this web site because I was looking to make some extra money. Really, I don’t think that this web site allows people to make enough money (at least for someone in the US). The rates are low, however I am hooked. Maybe it is my insomnia, or my obsession with raising my approval rating. I really don’t know, but whatever the reason, I constantly find myself awake at 2 AM on Mturk doing senseless things. I also always have poker open on another screen, which is probably a much more viable way for me to make money. I love cards. I think the mturk site is a great idea; however it is unfair how much work some hits require in order to make a nickel or less. I really don’t get why there isn’t a minimum wage for mturk. Still, the tasks are often fun and I really enjoy the academic surveys since I work on those sometimes at the University I go to. It is a Midwest college and I really have not enjoyed my experience here. There is something about all the fraternities and sororities, which seems to corrupt people. I think George Carlin once said something like, “I love & treasure individuals as I meet them, but I loathe and despise the groups they belong too”. I feel that way sometimes. I study the media and communication technologies and how they affect people, so maybe that is why I am so enamored with this web site (and reality TV). Whatever the reason, I think I will keep doing these little tasks for a while until I become bored or when I start doing better on the poker tables. For the rest of this memoir, I will give some random facts about myself, since I believe another thing that makes mturk cool is how it is made up of people from a lot of different place who are all unique in different ways. “A community out of nothing” should be the slogan (or maybe the slogan for another online community). I like lasagna a lot. Heidi & Spencer are lame (so was the Hills). Red Monkey hats are way better than Ed Hardy. People should be more open-minded. The radio should have better music on more often. Old Rock stars should retire once they sound bad. Jesus may have been black. Would it matter? Religions are bull shit, spirituality is everything. Love is everything and more. Terminator Salvation was a letdown, but a step up from T3. Six Flags is a lot of fun. Colleges aren’t producing individuals who have integrity. The sublime Doesn’t have to scare us Professor O’Gorman. Mturk needs to pay more for hits. Facebook and twitter have gone overboard. We should all have fun outdoors more. Paris Hilton isn’t too hot.