joel's thoughts

So, I’m poking around Heather’s blog, following links to other folks’ sites, and Kevin tells me to: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Okay, but this gets tricky. You see, […]

There’ve been a few things lately that I’ve thought I should get around to posting, and I still may, but right now I wanted to let you know that Andi’s just posted something you really should read. Yes, I mean now. Go.

Not much going on lately. I felt like I should post something so you didn’t think I’ve been spending an entire month grieving over my cat :P. I still miss her, but Katie and Keesha have been keeping my litterbox-cleaning skills from fading out ;). They’re cute, and they’re fun, but they’re teenagers, and not […]

Goodbye, my friend. You are sorely missed.

Back in October the Washingon Post had an article about some researchers at Duke University working with monkeys and a robot arm. Essentally they implanted wires in the monkeys’ heads that let a computer record some brain signals. Then they let the monkeys play with a joystick that controls a robot arm in a full […]

The building where I work is directly under one of the landing approach paths for Dulles airport, and my cube is next to a window looking north such that planes on approach suddenly materialize over my head and gradually get smaller on their way to the runway. I see a pretty wide range of planes […]

I can see the headlines now: NATION’S CAPITAL BROUGHT TO STANDSTILL BY 1/8″ SNOWFALL Absolutely crazy. This time, though, I can’t blame it on people who just don’t know how to drive in snow. The roads really were pretty bad, particularly in the neighborhoods. It’s been below freezing at night for most of the past […]

Bush’s future is looking up. The President has been catching some flak lately for his apparent personal inability to capture Saddam Hussein and/or Osama bin laden. The crowd of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have been sure to point out this flaw in Bush’s performance, his approval ratings have been suffering of late due […]

So here’s the thing that made me finally get off my duff and start posting something. Found this opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle (via this post on Slashdot) questioning the wisdom of schools nationwide spending boatloads of cash on putting computers in classrooms while simultaneously laying off teachers and closing school libraries. Ever […]

Well, here we are in December already, and I’m just now getting to posting something. I bought this domain back in February of 2001, got hosting space for it in February of this year (2003), and set up the blog software (Movable Type) in April. But I never started posting because I wanted to tweak […]