Joel Gross's Blog

Below is a photo of me and my favorite person, Bestemor (norwegian for grandma):

She’s not really a midget- she’s about average height for a woman (5’4”).‚  I’m just freakishly large (6’5”)

The trial of Fred’s murder was postponed until March 3, 2009.

The Large Hadron Collider is a massive multibillion dollar installation built for testing quantum physics theories. The video below is an explanation of how it operates.

… read more “How the Large Hadron Collider Operates”

A crazy window washer was 30 feet up in the air on the end of a ladder with no ropes or security measures last week.‚  My coworkers and I couldn’t figure out what this guy was thinking.‚  What if someone tripped and fell into his ladder or he slipped?‚  Geez.

My Washington Huskies are defeated (as opposed to undefeated) this season at 0-6, but the good news is that our cross-state rivals the Washington State Cougars are even worse.‚  I watched the USC Condoms absolutely trounce the awful Cougs today.‚  USC scored touchdowns on 11 of 13 drives and couuld have scored ten more if they wanted to.‚ … read more “Huskies Stink, But WSU Stinks Worse”

Google has announced the biggest, best breakthrough in email since the invention of the keyboard: Mail Goggles.‚  It requires email senders to answer 5 math questions in 1 minute late at night on weekends- the equivalent of a Breathalyzer for email.‚  Awesome.‚  I am going to activate this wonderful program immediately!

Too bad they didn’t invent before I sent all those other awful late night emails…

Funny short video of a monkey harassing a dog by pulling its tail.