After watching my first lunar eclipse tonight from the roof of my apartment building, I went with Nick Fitzer and his roommate Nick something-or-other to watch Juno. Many friends, including Plato and Jordan, told me that Juno was an excellent movie and so I have been anxious to see it for some time.
Plato 
repeatedly told me to take a date, but I grew impatient of waiting and I had a gift card to AMC burning a hole in my pocket.… read more “Juno Movie Review”
Plato was kind enough to give me some rough drafts of stories that he had worked on a while back and I put them online. I messed up the order of some of the pages when I put them online and still need to fix that, so if you come across anything messed up while reading, please send me the page that is bad or post it in the comments.… read more “Plato’s Short Stories”
Last night the weekly dinner crew headed out to go to an ethiopian restaurant named Waid’s in the Central District of Seattle. However, Waid’s was closed for Presidents Day, so Plato led Ian, Diane, Tara and I on to a different destination: La Isla.
La Isla is a small Puerto Rican restaurant in Ballard, WA. Plato had been there before and said it had some great Caribbean food and our group is all about trying new things, so we headed over.… read more “La Isla Puerto Rican Restaurant in Ballard, WA”
Fred’s family has established the Frederick Stephens III Memorial Scholarship Fund so that those who wish to contribute to the memory of Fred may do so.‚ Michael Hesamer will be going on trial for Fred Stephen’s murder on March 5, 2009.
At the request of Fred Stephen’s family, I have removed all photos for the time being.… read more “Remembering Fred Stephens”
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 2:00pm-8:00pm
Viewing
Southwest Mortuary
9021 Rainier Ave. So.
Seattle, WA 98118
Friday, February 15, 2008, 11:00am
Funeral Services
First A.M.E. Church
1522 14th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
What I know now. I was having a fantasy today about having a time machine. Below are a few of the things that I would do:
-I would use my time machine to go hunt dinosaurs. Jurassic Park had it right- a nice big game preserve with the biggest monsters history has known. I’d be decked out like Rambo with a rocket launcher, .50 caliber sniper rifle and a light machine gun for anything small and fast.… read more “Time Machine To Do List”
When many people in the business world hear about their marketing department, they roll their eyes. Marketing has a reputation of being mostly fluff and very little results delivered. Sales people go and find new clients, production people deliver whatever the company makes, but no one really understands what in the world marketing people really do.… read more “Marketing: Science or Scam?”
I added two new features today that I think my readers will like:
1. Polling. I can place ajax powered polls on my site and you can vote and instantly see how everyone else is answering. Polls will appear in posts and along the right hand column near the bottom.
2. Ratings. If you open an individual post, you can rate it at the bottom out of 5 stars.… read more “New Features on Joel’s Blog”
My birthday was a lot of fun, thanks to everyone who came!
I ate a ton of sushi at Imo in Pioneer Square. Imo is a tasty sushi bar in Seattle that has one of the best happy hours around. You can have 3 sushi rolls for $9.95, $4 margaritas and $7 Imo Punch (a giant concoction of lots of different boozes).… read more “Great Birthday!”
The following are entertaining things that I have found online lately:
-James McDonough, the newly retired head of the Florida prison system, said that before he arrived the prison system was extremely corrupt. He describes drunken orgies, unhealthy obsession with softball and a violent mafia-style prison system run by drug lords. “I cannot explain how big an obsession softball had become,” McDonough said.… read more “Interesting Internet Info”