Democratic Primaries

I was never one to collect specimens in the field. That is hard, unrewarding work of the sort I shun. I did, however, own a business that sold mineral specimens on the Internet to collectors around the world. Hence my name. I sold all of my remaining stock in trade, though, in 2007, and shut the business down, for various reasons, including an overabundance of competition. Mine was one of the first two internet mineral dealer businesses on the Internet, founded in 1995.

There is now another mineral dealer whose business is called MineralMan, though. That was never the name of my business, and it appeared after I had closed my business. There is no relationship there. It is rather a natural name for a mineral dealer, I suppose.

My mineral business was called The OsoSoft Mineral Connection, and was an offshoot of my shareware software business that was named just OsoSoft, after the town in California where I once lived, Los Osos. I kept the name because I had business licenses in that name and it was more convenient just to use the same business name.

I adopted the screen name MineralMan for all interactions on political websites a very long time ago, and have used it for a couple of decades.

That is, perhaps, more information than you might require, Sir, but I would rather err on the side of full disclosure.