u/RatGodFatherDeath

Costco now sells $100 Uber East gift Cards for $80.
I bought two for $159.99
Costco has a deal with Uber Eats now of 20% off your first 3 orders if $100 or more.
If you combo those together you get the AirPods Pro 3 with 2 years of apple care + for $160.
Can’t be beat
But does need the Costco membership

In his Audible interview last year, Matt said: "The first story I ever published was in a national magazine in 1999" — he was just a kid, and his first book wouldn't come out until 2003. But he's never named the magazine or the story, and as far as I can tell, no interview, profile, or wiki ever has. The earliest credit anyone cites is The Shivered Sky (2003).

I'm a book collector and a DCC fan, and that gap bugged me. So I went looking.

The hunt:

• Wayback Machine snapshots of Matt's old website (captured April 2003) had a "samples of Matt's fiction" section listing three early story credits: "The Virgin" — first published in Genre Magazine; "The Champion" — winner of the 2000 Spam Writers Contest; and "The Beggar and the Devil" — 2nd place in The Harrow's 2003 short story contest. "The Virgin" is the only one he flagged as first published, and at 1999 it predates the other two — so that was the thread to pull.
• Genre was a national gay men's lifestyle magazine (1991–2009). There's no digital archive and no index, so I couldn't just look up which issue. What I could do: sellers listing old back issues upload photos of the table of contents. I worked through those TOC scans — on eBay and elsewhere — until I found the one that listed him. The confirming scan turned up on an Amazon listing for a copy someone had sold: the May 1999 issue, with "The Virgin" in the contents, billed as "an original short story by Genre discovery Matt Dinniman."

Then came the hard part: actually getting a physical copy of a 27-year-old magazine that almost never surfaces for sale. I searched eBay and other sites, then reached out to a seller who had other Genre issues in stock. He tracked down a copy of the May 1999 issue for me through a specialty back-issue magazine dealer (NSFW site)— and it arrived this week.

Full text of The Virgin from Wayback Machine is here

I have a couple sets from the Bricklink Designer Program Series 7 for sale. I have two of each listed below.

Pricing includes shipping in the US, I could ship internationally but would cost more depending on location. I also may be able to give a discount depending on zip code if buying more than one set.

Privateer Frigate Fortuna (910059) - $445 shipped (1 sold 1 available )

Sushi Restaurant (910060) - $375 shipped (1 sold 1 available)

Alchemist’s Shop (910062) - $275 shipped (sold out)

PayPal g/s only.

https://imgur.com/a/N3pmle2