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2008: A Retrospective

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 31 under Joel

The year 2008 was a positive one for me.  I have made great advances for myself in many areas, from business to social to physical to mental to emotional.  The world in general did not fair so well- economies collapsed, wars started and grew,  people were discriminated against (Prop. 8 in Cali), freedoms were lost [...]

Maturity: Emotional Attachment’s Decline

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 31 under Joel

Feelings for others are one of the most challenging facets of life that people must deal with. Emotional attachment is a powerful feeling that you feel towards another person. In a healthy relationship, this feeling is usually positive (caring, love, kindness) and in a negative relationship can be harmful (anger, bitterness). Either [...]

New Years Eve 2008: ACT Theatre

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 31 under Celebration

Tomorrow, Joel and his hordes of minions descend upon the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle to celebrate all of the joys of 2008 and cheer the coming of 2009.  Jarek, Nick, Plato, Bryan, Kenny and many other friends will join me in ringing in the New Year with unlimited drinks, food and beautiful ladies. Adventures [...]

Social Security: Giant Ponzi Scheme

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 30 under Education

A Ponzi scheme is an illegal scam that operates by paying old investors with new investors money, until the scheme opera
tor runs out of new investors/victims.  Bernard Madoff, a hedge fund operator, recently was discovered to have been running the largest Ponzi scheme anyone has yet been arrested for, allegedly stealing $50 billion from his [...]

How to Build & Promote A Website

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 30 under Advice

The following informational video describes my methods on how to build and promote a website. My advice comes from my experiences building a variety of websites and optimizing these websites to accomplish predetermined goals.

Helpful or too boring?

Debate: Religion Vs. Evolution

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 29 under Religion

The great and mighty Black Rooster sent me the following video of a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on the subject of religion versus evolution.

The debate video is very long, but it is interesting and fun to listen to. Rabbi Boteach does one of the best jobs I’ve heard of defending [...]

iPhone 3G Sadness

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 29 under Joel

As I stood after sending a letter to the President tonight (as my grandpa says), my most treasured possession fell out of my pocket and into the drink to swim with the not-fishes.  I turned around to see to my horror my iPhone 3G sacrificed to the porcelain gods as the water swirled around it.  [...]

Sexual Assault is Baaad… Mmmkay?

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 29 under Uncategorized

Amateur horror video of why sexual assault generally isn’t the best idea.

Gran Torino Movie Review

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 28 under Advice

Someone told me recently that reading a movie review before you see the movie ruins it for you, so I will just say that if you haven’t seen Gran Torino yet do so as soon as possible.

Do Open Relationships or Polyamorous Relationships Work?

POSTED BY Joel on Dec 28 under Advice

After I finished writing this post, I realized it is rambling and doesn’t come to any conclusions. I mainly would like to hear other people’s opinions and experiences on the subject. This is one of those areas where I am thinking aloud and developing my ideas through discussion.
An open relationship is a sexual [...]

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