Hi Steemit! My name is Ruben.

Bio / I am a former Editor-In-Chief of Bitcoin Magazine, freelance graphics designer, "ideator" at quirky.com, 3d print designer, and most recently herbal vape maker.

Editor / I worked with some of the most talented people at Bitcoin Magazine and I was directly involved in editing issues 21 (Introduced at Porcfest), 22 and overseeing the digital publications from April 2014 until November 2014.

Graphics / I've played with graphics since grade school and recently revisited the parabolic curves I made, and have tried other experiments with code, math, and art. Some of my work has been published in Bitcoin Magazine in 2014, and my most recent illustrations have been released on Neon Mob.

Ideator / I've named a few products, had a product idea selected, had winning taglines, and designs chosen as well. It was this on and off time pitching ideas, where I learned how to create product renders and 3d prints.

3d print designer / Using the royalties I earned from quirky.com and the skills I picked up creating renders, I had the resources to mess around with 3d printing. I have sold mugs on Shapeways.com and made little toys for my kids as well.

Herbal Vape Juice / I have gardened for about 9 years and this year was the first time I decided to see if I could make viable herbal products that people would buy. I trekked up to Porcfest in Lancaster, NH and sold my wares under the name Afterleaf. Customers bought teas, kombucha, kava, got free cracker samples, but most people bought my herbal cigarettes. The vape crowd asked me to make herbal vape juice. I looked at the successful herbal smoke blends I sold (Sunrise, Flow, Meditation, Pillow), and I've just completed a 30 day steep of my first 9 herbal vape juice products: Lavendar, Klip Dagga, Blue Lotus, Bay Bean, White Clover, Mullein, Scarlett Sage, Yarrow and Damiana.

Pokémon Go / Yes, I love Pokémon Go because it has replaced the wasted time on Facebook's newsfeed with excercise along with other benefits.

Welcome to Steemit!
If you like Pokemon Go, you got to read this about the best Pokemon alternative (always by Niantic) https://steemit.com/videogame/@andrew0/diary-of-a-rookie-ingress-player-pokemon-go-home

Welcome to Steemit Ruben. Look out for some graphic design contests coming soon!

Very cool, would love to hear how you make herbal vapes!

Yes! I will work on a post.

Hi Ruben. Some time ago you would be greeted by wang bot but he stopped his greetings. He would present you with useful links about steemit. You are on your own now so use search feature of steemit to get informations about platform.
I'am interested in those herbal vape juices of yours, since mine which are probably from China, make me sleep with my eyes open and my throat sore and dry every morning. If you would present how you make them I would be grateful.

I will make a post showing what steps I took. The ones I've tried haven't had the effects you describe because they are literally plant/flower, and glycerin.

I reread this after reading the post when steemit rankings were introduced. I'm not sure why the wang bot got a negative reputation. I would think it was in the same category as the slackbot where it proactively brought helpful resources to steemit users.

Someone was jealous for his rewards or was thinking he was not fair so they flagged him to lose reputation. However, he is still here and is curating content. Here is his profile, and you can check his blog about the matter.
https://steemit.com/@wang/

He is down to -16 now. That is sad. It would be fun to have a bot around for reminders and things.

There are bots mainly for curation efforts now since no one can downvote your vote atm. @cheetah bot is one that is really interesting it looks through your post content and notifies users if there is potential stealing of author ownership.

Dude, you are so creative! My husband is really into gardening too so I will have to show him your herbal vape juice.