Author: Joel Gross

I found this picture of a uniquely beautiful rose.

I just read an interesting article in the New Yorker about Intellectual Ventures, a company that brings various groups of smart people together and has them discuss problems and solutions, then patents the ideas.

I would be very interested in having a similar group myself, perhaps one that meets once a week. Would anyone be interested in joining me?… read more “Idea Invention Group”

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that my flag football team went undefeated this season and won our first playoff game. Unfortunately, we were defeated in the semi-finals tonight. If we had won we would have gone to the championship game.

We lost because our quarterbacks threw two interceptions. In our flag football league, the offense has a decided advantage and you can’t make any mistakes like that in a playoff game.… read more “Semi-Finals Flag Football Loss”

“Ladies and gentlement, it’s Tom Damn Brokaw!”

“Ninjas are everywhere!”

“Tom Brokaw, do you remember the time we had a BB gun fight?”

“You say cool words and stuff”… read more “Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) interviews Tom Brokaw”

While perusing the internets, I ran across the following blogpost on thedirty.com about the TKE fraternity at the University of Washington. Being a UW fraternity alumnus myself, this posting made me laugh a little… Check it out below.

The TKE’s are actually a pretty good group of guys, I don’t know who this Nik guy is or why he decided to bash the TKE’s at UW.… read more “TKE at UW”

I found the following video series on learning how to use SQL and have watched 9 of the 13 videos. The video series on SQL is inordinately helpful and really has taken me from knowing nothing about databases to being a solid beginner quickly. If you are interested in building your own web applications or doing anything else more in depth with computers, a knowledge of databases is a must.… read more “Learn SQL Videos”

During Memorial Day weekend, I visited Pike Place Market with some friends of mine. Good times.

… also known as “Salesman”.

My company now has decided to give all of it’s sales people the title of “Associate Vice-President of Business Development” apparently in an attempt to make them sound more important when they try to sell our products. I guess it makes sense since we are selling to high level customers, but still it is a little bit ridiculous.