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| Joe's Journal |
| This blog is basically a random collection of what bothers me, what needs to be ridiculed in society, the morons who I encounter everyday, the good things that cross my path, and whatever else I feel like writing about. So either sit back and read my babbling or take a hike! |
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| The Perfect GOP Vice-Presidential Candidate? |
| 2008-03-05 19:08:33 |
Now that Senator John McCain is the definite Republican nominee for President, it is time for him to begin thinking in earnest about the perfect Vice-Presidential candidate. The latest name to circulate (aside from Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee) is Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. While I think that Hutchinson would be a [...]...
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| “Damn It, Woman - Get UP!” |
| 2008-03-05 18:46:13 |
A few weeks ago I came across this story and I got a good laugh out of it. In short, this woman was passed out in a coma after giving childbirth and after a while they decided to pull the plug. A few days before they’re getting ready to pull the plug, her [...]...
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| The Elmo Dolls Wants To Kill You… |
| 2008-03-04 19:51:01 |
Hopefully I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand the craze around Sesame Street’s Elmo character over the last couple of years. What’s the big deal?! It’s a furry little red thing. That’s it! With all of that said, I had to post this story…
It turns out that a freak oddity [...]...
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| Even The IRS Hates Paying Taxes |
| 2008-03-04 19:44:34 |
Most people hate tax season…even those who work for the Internal Revenue Service. I saw a story the other day about an IRS agent from my hometown of Roxbury who was convicted on tax evasion charges. How about that, huh? Even the IRS hates paying taxes!
Just another example of how we are [...]...
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| Finally Some Oversight at NJHESAA |
| 2008-03-04 19:18:43 |
Ever since I started paying back my student loans some 20 months ago, I’ve been complaining about how inept and downright rude the people at the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority are on the telephone. Not only do they treat you like you are trying to get away with something, but they [...]...
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| The Wii Virtual Console - Awesome |
| 2008-03-04 19:03:29 |
For those of you that don’t know, Nintendo Wii has something called a Virtual Console. This is essentially a purchase and download service where you can buy old games, store them on the Wii, and play them whenever you want. First of all, this is ingenious. Nintendo found a way to charge [...]...
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| What Was the Reason for Vacation THIS Time?! |
| 2008-03-03 18:45:51 |
My apologies, folks. I started writing this post two weeks ago and I just didn’t have a chance to finish it. Two weeks ago Howard Stern and his crew went on vacation (again). This was the week of President’s Day. I was shocked - what was the reason for the vacation [...]...
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| There Better Not Be A Bailout… |
| 2008-03-03 18:39:03 |
With all of this talk about the subprime mortgage market meltdown, I hope that this country doesn’t forget about the student loan scandals that are silently rocking higher education. Just as people were duped into loans that were bad for them, many students were duped into consolidating with organizations that provided a kickback to [...]...
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| Will Ferrell’s Latest Movie a Huge Bomb |
| 2008-03-02 00:17:16 |
Why is it such a big story that Ferrell">Will Ferrell’s latest movie is a huge bomb? This guy is one of the biggest “no talents” in recent history. How can anyone find a guy funny who plays the same shtick in every movie? All he does is overly exaggerate every few words [...]...
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| Gotta Feel Bad for Prince Harry |
| 2008-03-02 00:04:27 |
Prince Harry - also known as “The Spare” - was deployed in Afghanistan up until a few days ago. After word leaked that he was fighting on the front lines against remnants of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the British Royal Army pulled him out of the country and brought him back home. This [...]...
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| Contemplating a New Business Venture |
| 2008-02-28 09:03:16 |
Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about opening up another small business. For those of you that don’t know, I am the owner of Usable Web Solutions, LLC which primarily is focused on providing an affordable online presence to small businesses and nonprofits. My mindset was that I really like putting [...]...
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| Delays in Entries on the Journal |
| 2008-02-28 08:03:17 |
Hey everyone. I had to delay adding some entries to the Journal since I just completed a major switch from a third party hosting service for this website to my in-house, Usable Web Solutions hosting service. This will afford us a much cheaper annual rate (nearly slicing it in half or making it [...]...
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| Lost, The Biggest Loser, Smallville, Etc |
| 2008-02-24 10:07:56 |
The current season of Lost is turning out to be pretty decent. This is definitely not the same show that started in September 2004 and I think that is rather obvious to anyone who has watched every episode. As one of my roommates said the other day, the first season of Lost has [...]...
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| Top Executives Move On To New Opportunities |
| 2008-02-24 09:31:09 |
About a week ago I celebrated my 18 month anniversary being employed by my company. If you read the post on Joe’s Journal, then you know that I wound up celebrating in rare form. And while that journal entry is more a display of a minor annoyance, there are other things going on [...]...
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| SPAM 102,000+ |
| 2008-02-24 09:20:35 |
While I was busy the last few weeks, Joe’s Journal eclipsed 100,000 spam comments captured by Askimet. Talk about pathetic, right? Not only are there losers in this world that are sitting by a computer hitting the “send” button as spam, but there are uber-losers who create software robots to do this automatically!
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| Movie Review: American Pie - Beta House |
| 2008-02-24 01:53:34 |
Believe it or not, I didn’t totally hate this movie. I should qualify that statement, though. I went into watching this thing knowing that it was going to be smut, have crappy acting, and be about as deep as a raindrop puddle. Well, I was completely right!
There are no major performances worth [...]...
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| Office Nonsense: What a Waste of Energy |
| 2008-02-24 01:14:32 |
We all knew it had to happen at some point…well, here we go! My first office aggravation entry! Whoo hoo! Exciting! So, without any further adieu, I present my first awkward situation and the first time that I’ve put myself out there as someone NOT to be wrecklessly and witlessly tread [...]...
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| Back With More Entries For Your Enjoyment |
| 2008-02-24 01:10:26 |
Howdy, folks! I realize that my updates on this blog have been few and far in between over the last few weeks, but I will be back to posting somewhat regularly very soon (maybe even…now). For those of you who thirst for my take on a variety of issues, fear not - I [...]...
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| Where Does The Primary Go From Here? |
| 2008-02-11 14:22:09 |
Both the Republican and Democratic Presidential primaries are becoming the stuff of political science legend. You have the meteoric rise and fall of the Rudy Giuliani candidacy, the record-setting fundraising of Ron Paul, the almost unbelievable success of Mike Huckabee and his shoestring budget, the historic candidacy of either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama [...]...
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| Random Updates From All Over the Place |
| 2008-02-09 13:58:02 |
The last two weeks have been extremely busy, but there have been great things going on all over the place! Besides the Giants winning the SuperBowl and Bill Belicheck being exposed as the sore-losing cheater that he is, there have been Presidential primaries, work, volunteer stuff, and more.
Earlier this week I had the opportunity [...]...
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| More Thoughts on the Giants and the SuperBowl |
| 2008-02-04 10:17:07 |
After thinking about it a little bit more, I have a few more comments about the Giants in general and the SuperBowl last night. My first thought is that I always thought Jeremy Shockey was a bit of a bully to Eli and the rest of the Giants organization. He reminds me of [...]...
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| The Giants Win SuperBowl XLII! |
| 2008-02-04 00:24:29 |
Whoooo!!! Can you believe it? A team that started off the season 0 - 2 and a quarterback that many had written off as not ready for the big leagues managed to win the biggest game on the biggest stage we’ve seen in the NFL in years! Combine that with the fact [...]...
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| Why DID the Chicken Cross the Road? |
| 2008-02-03 12:50:23 |
My Mother forwarded me a chain e-mail of jokes about why the chicken crossed the road. I found it funny, so I figured that some of you might, too! Enjoy!
Why did the chicken cross the road?
DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with [...]...
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| Proof of Oil Companies Gouging Prices? |
| 2008-02-01 08:59:01 |
Exxon-Mobil announced their largest quarterly profit today at $11.7 billion. According to the CNN article, they were making about $1,300 per second last year with an annual profit of $40.61 billion.
Trust me, I’m not one of these lunatic who thinks that companies should be taxed ten different ways to Sunday or that Republicans bend [...]...
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| Getting Railroaded By These Rate Cuts |
| 2008-01-30 14:45:51 |
Earlier today the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee cut interest rates - again - by 50 basis points to 3.00%. This is good news for those who are looking to get better-cost money from banks or who are worried about the cost of bank money, but for anyone who has an interest bearing account [...]...
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| Giuliani and Edwards to Drop Out |
| 2008-01-30 14:45:41 |
This year’s primary season - short as it may seem - has been a fascinating study in political theater, jockeying for position, and what it takes for a political campaign to succeed in the year 2008. I’ll reserve my comments on some of the fascination with the minutia for a different post, but one [...]...
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| Back to the Classroom |
| 2008-01-30 14:45:32 |
Last semester I taught a course and this semester I’m taking one. I’m nuts, huh? Most people who are on the verge of being 27 and already have a Masters Degree are doing all that they can to stay away from being a student in a classroom again!
Monmouth University is offering a course [...]...
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| More Websites for Usable Web Solutions, LLC |
| 2008-01-24 09:32:30 |
Over the course of the last week, I’ve been happy to put together two more websites for my clients. The first site is for Administrative Solutions, LLC. This site is still under some construction and there are a few things that need to be added here and there. You’ll see, though, that [...]...
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| Try Out The Tanka Bar! |
| 2008-01-16 11:38:15 |
While I was at the Opportunity Finance Network’s conference last month, I picked up a free sample of the Tanka Bite. As their website states, “The 70-calorie Tanka Bar delivers a slow, powerful protein punch by mixing two primary ingredients: low-fat, high-energy American buffalo meat and tasty cranberries.” This little piece of beef [...]...
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| “You’re Going Back to Shawshank?!” |
| 2008-01-14 10:00:32 |
For those of you who listen to the Howard Stern show, you’ll recognize the title of this post as Chris Rock’s reaction to learning that Howard Stern was engaged to be married. Hilarious! I felt that the quote was appropriate to verbalize what some of my friends and former classmates will think when [...]...
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| A Sad Day for The Founding Fathers |
| 2008-01-14 09:02:25 |
New Jersey, in its infinite stupidity, passed legislation yesterday endorsing the National Popular Vote movement. In short, this legislation has the potential to undermine the Electoral College and give the state’s Presidential electors to the candidate who wins the national popular vote. Think of it as the no-thought-needed “fix” to the Electoral College.
Of [...]...
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| Katrina Claims Total $3,014,170,389,176,410 |
| 2008-01-13 13:20:03 |
Yes, you read that right. The “victims” of Hurricane Katrina are suing the US Government for $3,014,170,389,176,410. In the written word, we’d call that three quadrillion, fourteen trillion, one hundred and seventy billion, three hundred and eighty nine million, one hundred and seventy six thousand, four hundred and ten dollars. This is [...]...
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| “But Those Damn College Kids…” |
| 2008-01-12 09:22:40 |
Once again, there are problems in Ocean Township. While the brainwashed masses (which seem to be dwindling) continue to rant and rave about the local off-campus college constituency and how they are ruining their “family neighborhoods,” it looks like those families aren’t so wholesome themselves…
From today’s Asbury Park Press (this has been edited to [...]...
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| Bald Guy Greeting Cards |
| 2008-01-09 12:33:22 |
While trolling around on the internet, I came across Bald Guy Greetings. Their website states, “The idea behind Bald Guy Greetings is to offer the greeting card buyer a funny card that they actually find funny.”
I have to tell you - I read through their greeting cards and wound up forwarding a bunch of [...]...
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| The Danger of Harping on “Change” |
| 2008-01-05 20:20:52 |
Unless you live under a rock or you don’t follow politics to any great degree, then you know that the new buzzword in the Presidential campaigns is “change.” The Iowa caucuses and the national polling data all indicate that the people want change from their government. I agree - I want change from [...]...
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| Mike Huckabee vs. Ocean Township, NJ |
| 2008-01-05 20:06:30 |
After listening to Governor Mike Huckabee make a great comment during the ABC News Presidential debates tonight, I had to quote him here. When asked about illegal immigration and what he would do, Governor Huckabee said a bunch of things, but one quote caught my mind:
“When people live in the United States, they ought [...]...
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| Are Republicans Lacking Excitement in 2008? |
| 2008-01-04 13:37:08 |
Right now? Yes! One of my favorite blogs to visit, Riehl World View, put a post up this morning that said the following:
Funny, everyone will say Romney is done for coming in second, but Hillary is fine with third? I’ll make this short, because Iowa only proved one thing - the Republicans are [...]...
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| Obama & Huckabee Win; Dodd & Biden Go Home |
| 2008-01-04 09:31:30 |
Last night’s Iowa caucuses weren’t overly surprising (except Clinton taking third for the Democrats). Huckabee felt his “huck-a-boom” continue (I hate that phrase) and it appears that Obama was able to mobilize enough young voters and get enough second choice caucus-goers to move in his direction to take a big lead over Edwards and [...]...
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| Do You Apologize? |
| 2008-01-04 09:03:25 |
One of the bigger (and more useless) debates going on in New Jersey right now is whether or not the state should officially recognize the evils of early American slavery and then apologize for slavery. This seems like a nice gesture and I guess there is no material harm done by issuing an official, [...]...
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| My Second Day at Work Out World |
| 2008-01-03 08:53:07 |
After working out at my new gym yesterday morning, I refrained from writing anything about it on the blog. I did this, mainly, because I wanted to have a second day under my belt before I began to write about my experiences. Some of you may remember the completely ridiculous experiences I had [...]...
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