Category: Reviews

I had my first appointment with my new dentist, Dr. Eugene Hsu, this morning. ‚ It’s been a long time since I visited a regular dentist- I’ve been going to a specialist who has been working on my root canal tooth recently. ‚ Dr. Eugene Hsu did a great job. ‚ He has a dental camera he used to take pictures of my teeth and then show me what he sees and explained what was going on.… read more “New Dentist: Dr. Eugene Hsu”

My Apple iPhone 3G split along the top of the casing and hasn’t been working right lately- it has been unable to call out or receive calls properly half the time and the ringer doesn’t work.‚  I made an appointment at an Apple store, but ended up waiting for 45 minutes for‚  “Genius” to help me out.‚ … read more “Apple iPhone 3G Repairs Rejected”

Plato, one of his law school buddies and I went and watched the Seattle Opera put on Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung last night.‚  It was my first time going to the opera and I really enjoyed it.‚  Beautiful voices, great orchestra and fun plots.‚  I liked Bluebeard’s Castle more, but I think Plato & his buddy liked Erwartung better.‚ … read more “Review of Seattle Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle & Erwartung”

The following art caught my eye as I surfed the internet.‚  Enjoy.

The movie “Black Snake Moan”, starring Samuel L. Jackson, is a good movie.‚  I felt that it was too heavily cut to shorten it, but was impressed anyways.‚  The story follow three very disturbed people in the Deep South: two young lovers and a recently jilted older man (Jackson).‚  Black Snake Moan was able to touch on the power of certain desires and emotions better than most movies that I have seen.‚ … read more “Black Snake Moan Movie Review”

I just finished watching Crash as I was folding my clothes.‚  Very well done movie about racism and its effects in America.‚  I recommend watching it if you get the chance.

On Sunday, I went skydiving with Skydive Snohomish. ‚ Plato came up with the idea of going skydiving a while back and asked if I wanted to join him. ‚ We arrived at Skydive Snohomish at 3 pm and had the bad luck to be scheduled to go last that day, so we hung out till around 5:30 pm until it was our turn.… read more “Joel Goes Skydiving at Skydive Snohomish”

Found another old post that was scheduled for June 1, 2008, but somehow never posted itself.

Twitter is a new social media community that features little posts with 160 maximum characters, basically like a mass text message. Twitter’s home page says that it’s goal is to have it’s users answer the question “What are you doing?”…… read more “Twitter Review”

I recently have been accused by a couple of my fine readers of beginning to not present a balanced point of view in my articles because I gain more traffic from being outrageous. To them I say, “You have been brainwashed by the evil liberal media and have your head so far up your arse’s you can almost see back out your mouth!”… read more “Is Joel Turning Into Rush Limbaugh?”

The WASP Knife is a tactical knife that injects a frozen ball of compressed gas approximately the size of a basketball at 850 PSI directly into it’s victim. The WASP Knife is primarily used for diving when a diver is attacked by a predator like a shark. Capable of bringing down most large land or water animals quickly.… read more “WASP Knife Review”