joel's thoughts

Yeah, so I still exist.  I’ve been getting too caught up lately in political analysis, I must say.  I’m much more fascinated by what people say about the candidates than by what they say themselves, oddly enough.  Anyway, I’ve also recently started poking around a bit with Twitter, believe it or not, and I’m contemplating […]

So I’ve now done a garbage disposal replacement three times now, and this last one was the easiest by far because of a tip I stumbled across on the web. Usually the most difficult and/or annoying thing about getting the old one out and the new one in is the sheer weight of the thing. […]

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.-Doug Larson, Olympic Gold Medalist (1902-1981)

You’ve probably seen the web ads around Christmas time from orgs like World Vision asking you to “buy a goat” or some such for your loved ones. Of course it’s in name only, as you’re donating the appropriate amount in your loved one’s name to enable the organization to provide a goat for a poor […]

YouTube is just too fun. Here are two videos I came across today, courtesy of Technorati. The first is “Amateur – Lasse Gjertsen”, in which a talented artist performs a song for drum and piano. Only his talent isn’t in playing either drum or piano, but in video editing. 🙂 Take a look… What do […]

Yep, still here. I know I haven’t posted in a few days, but…what’s that? More? Oh, I suppose it has been a few weeks, maybe even a month or two. I’m sorry, what? Longer than that? Oh, alright. Truth be told it’s been a little over a year, but we’ve been a little busy. You […]

No, not the Tony Soprano way. The Washington Post reports on an interesting and promising way to let emergency workers know who in your cell phone contact list they should call if something happens to you — simply add ICE (In Case of Emergency) to the person’s name in the list. Not foolproof, or reliable, […]

This was just too funny. I was reading this article about some redesign of the Freedom Tower in NY when I happened to scroll down and notice the following product ad: If you like, you can view the firefox screen grab I cut that from (~100k). When I clicked on the link, the actual product […]

Everytime Andi and the girls go out of town to visit grandparents or something, I always end up staying up later than I intend to, tinkering around with one thing or another. This time it was trying once again to put a cap on the firehose that is comment spam. I found James Seng’s plugin […]

I promise this isn’t going to turn into a Grocery Blog, but Giant just ticked me off. And the more I think about it, the more I understand what they’re trying to do, and in a way it makes sense from their perspective. But that doesn’t mean I agree with it, much less like it, […]