Archive for August, 2005
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
chezJoel.com remains 100% independent of all political factions in Venuzuela.
"They shouldn't call it the 700 club," my old friend Clint groused, "they should call it the double-oh-seven club." I laughed, raised my beer and drank to that. The next day Chavez showed his ideological cousinhood with megalomaniac Sadaam ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
I'm reading a book called The Power of Full Engagement. I hate these books designed to make executives more effective, with all their catch-phrases like "corporate athelete" and "organizational energy." But this is still a pretty good book; the authors posit that humans were meant to have cycles ...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
I found--nay, I created a googlewhack, and that googlewhack is me. I am prodigiously proud to blurt that the googlewhack "coining googlecentechelon" yields, this writing, exactly one result, and that result is chezJoel.com. And the icing on the cake is that my site is firmly ensconced in the ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2005
View through a portico at DC's Union Station of the entrance to the National Postal Museum.
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005
K_sra has three short posts which got me thinking about a name for the tenth item on the tenth page of Google search results for a given phrase. And so I'm coining it: Googlecentechelon. Its fun to say. Googlecentechelon.
I hope my site enters the Googlecentechelon for the ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005
Welcome to chezJoel! Spammers made me make you register to comment, but I dropped that whole "give me your email" thing, so hopefully its not such a drag. I love your comments! -Joel
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005
I am delighted to report that I am a guest blogger at The Dawn Patrol, where I extend this site's discussion of the profanity-ridden lyrics I used in my short montage A Membrane For Choice. You can read my DP exclusive here: "Membrane" Crosses A Thin Line.
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
An open stretch of eastbound I-80 somewhere in western Pennsylvania.
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Can you smell what the rakhi's cooking?
This is the rakhi my youngest sister gave me today, on her birthday. It is a traditional Indian thread which sisters give as a gift to their brothers on the holiday called Raksha Bandhan. But as she explains, this gift has strings ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005
If you haven't seen PPGG's fatuous film "A Superhero for Choice," Dawn Eden has a list of places where you can go to see PPGG deliver the profilactic prescription to anything and everything. They look out over this land and see nothing but condom-nation (nyuck, nyuck, hic. It's ...
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