Back from one of the greatest natural wonders in the world. The last time I was in Yosemite was in 1989 or so with my friend Kris. We drove out one day and went for a quick hike up to Vernal and Nevada falls. Upon returning, one thing I noticed was how smaller things looked. Maybe it is one of those perspective things, and the…
April 16, 2001It is amazing, but when you stay up until 3am at work and then have to go back to work the next morning, the feeling is eerily similar to a hangover. This morning I was pleasantly surprised to see my Club Josh T-Shirt in the mail. It came out great so order up! I have been looking into combining stores into one page so I…
April 13, 2001In addition to the self-inflicted chin scrape suffered earlier this week, this morning I added some scraped knuckles on my left hand. I am a creature of habit. When I shower I usually have a pattern I follow. This minimizes how awake I need to be in the morning while getting ready for work. (I have a separate “don’t care how long I take” routine…
April 12, 2001My favorite commercial on television is again for Pacific Bell DSL. A mother comforts her deaf child as he clutches his dog. She tells him she’s sure that the neighbors are friendly. An elderly woman next door peers out the window and determined to be friendly, logs onto her modem connection to view some sign language video. Of course its choppy and slow, but she…
April 11, 2001In my wanderings around the Internet, I have found a couple of relic theme parks that have websites. It is interesting to think that there is not much separating these pages from my Doingworld pages. I guess I should work on an attractions list and then no one will know the difference. Check out: Freedomland USA Pleasure Island
April 10, 2001I’m back from my nice three-day weekend. This weekend also marked the fifth consecutive weekend at the Disneyland Resort. I really have no idea why we have been there so often, but I think it is more “nothing better to do” than “Disney-obsessive who needs a life”. Sunday Roger and I went to Ontario Mills. Those of you unfamiliar with the Mills concept – take…
April 9, 2001The last couple of days have really been a roller coaster ride. Tuesday night I was up until 2am approving pages at work. Yesterday we all sat around QA’ing and waiting. The result? At 5am this morning, two years of hard work finally paid off. It is all somewhat anti-climatic. The waiting, the frantic coding and recoding, and the general lack of a social life…
April 5, 2001Cafe Press allows people to upload graphics and sell t-shirts, mugs, and mousepads. They claim to have more coming. Dan ordered one for his website and it looks pretty good. Better than printing on thermal transfers and doing the ironing yourself. Look for Club Josh logo items for sale soon… Over the weekend I updated the Cyber Surfin’ Safari. It is really amazing the number…
April 3, 2001StarWars.com had a really good April Fool’s joke up on their site. They converted it to April 1, 1979 – complete with reports from the set of Episode V, why George Lucas hadn’t released Episode IV on Betamax, and the screen was nice a monochrome green like the good old days. Baseball season is upon us. This season, the Brewers and the Pirates open new…
April 2, 2001Daylight Savings Time begins this weekend. Is it just me, or is this one legacy item that we have no use for anymore? I can understand its use in the last century, but I think in this day and age that we should kiss it goodbye. Dack mentioned that he has a wireless web setup in his house for less that $500 bucks. Hmmmm. Sounds…
March 30, 2001