How did you get started doing tech editing?

Dude, stop making assumptions. I'm a chick who grew up in a town that hasn't had an economy since I was in kindergarden. Diesels are actually popular there since it's hours to a real town.

Why aren't diesels realistic in Minnesota? I know lots of Canadians in multiple provinces very happy with VW TDIs. The latest generation is particularly good but the previous one just meant running the glow plugs a bit longer during cold snaps.

I'm cheap too. TV came free with my in-law's last car and the Wii was a Christmas gift years ago. I wouldn't pay for cable but Netflix on a 30" screen is more enjoyable than watching free tv shows on a laptop. Over the last year, over 90% of the Wii's use has been for Netflix.

The percentage bachelors degrees granted in engineering doubled from 1975-1985 and it's dropped back down to the 1975 value again. I can't find the source but I read the other day that the number of bachelors degrees has roughly doubled since the 1970s. If so, we're graduating as many engineers as we were in 1975 but "production" of engineers has not not kept up with the increase of over 25% in population.

Not at the University of Waterloo. They mostly limit engineering classes to only engineering students. Then they charge engineering students engineering tuition for their arts electives. I paid a lot more for my intro to anthro class as the anthro student sitting next to me.
But it was the government's fault: they capped tuition rate hikes for non-professional degrees. Engineering was considered professional so we got 10+% hike a year while most students got 2%.

I work at home 4 or 4 1/2 days per week. If my job could be done from India, I'd be on a boat. One afternoon of team meetings and a client visit every few weeks is enough to make it compelling for my employer to have me locally available. Just being in the same time zone as clients tends to make them a lot happier.

But they do:
Update: Since someone asked about my server logs, the answer is: yes, I checked them out. On March 28 (the date their article was published) I did log one request for favicon.ico that originated at mail.longislandpress.com. Here it is:
XXX.XXX.XXX.XX – - [28/Mar/2011:20:56:31 +0000] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.0 304 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
It was served with an HTTP 304 code (meaning “unmodified”) which suggests the favicon was already in someone’s cache. That means the page had previously been loaded. The timestamp is 20:56:31 UTC, meaning it was 4:56PM in New York. The timestamp on the original Long Island Press article is 5:02PM.
To put it in a simpler way: someone from longislandpress.com visited my site less than 10 minutes before they published the article in question. I have to admit I didn’t expect the timestamps to be so close to each other, but there they are!
Update: I kept going through the logs, and what do you know I noticed this entry, which originated from the same IP address as the previous entry:
XXX.XXX.XXX.XX - - [29/Mar/2011:19:40:30 +0000] "GET /blog/2011/03/total-bummer-longislandpress-com-plagiarism-and-coverup/ HTTP/1.0" 200 13398 "http://www.longislandpress.com/[redacted wordpress admin.php]" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0"

Ah, kids and their assumptions these days. My phone is closer to truly ancient, over 7 years old. It was a low-end model even then but it was originally locked (in Canada). A nice man on the internets gave me a code for a few bucks but the provider would've done it for a slightly larger fee. It's a pretty dumb phone though supposedly it could have some kind of Java apps, which never did work. There's a calendar, calculator, and a little video poker game on it but no color screen, camera, bluetooth, etc. What it does have is wonderful voice quality and a battery that still holds a charge for several days with regular use. And I program iPhones for a living...

If my mother's driving it and doesn't want to pay a mechanic, it is.