Evolving Word Hacked
An Upland blog called "Evolving Word" - an Upland, California blog which I just discovered last night - has been hacked.

Courtesy Google's cache, here are some of the former contents of that blog:

My Wife -- A Pretty Cool Chick
Posted by joel on Thursday, June 24 @ 01:44 PM PST (55 reads)

Many of you know my wife. Many of you may not know my wife. I feel bad for the latter, as you would be undoubtedly better off for having known her. Among her many achievements, she is a successful fourth grade teacher who has recently had herself immortalized in the local newspaper.
A dedicated and creative teacher, she instituted a new program at her school for GATE children this year. It combined elements of language learning, career exploration and general knowledge and skill building into a comprehensive program to challenge high achieving students. The culminating event was a mock trial. Students took on various roles and simulated a trial of Hansel and Gretel. Not only did it goes amazingly well, but the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin was there to report on it. You can read the text of the article here, or you can read on to see it here.

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I Can Relate
Posted by joel on Thursday, June 17 @ 04:07 PM PST (47 reads)

So I am checking out aintitcool.com when I come across an article about the new contestants of "Last Comic Standing". Having watched most of the first season of this reality show, I took a peak at the information contained within. Much to my surprise, Gary Gulman, a 6'6" Jewish man, had this to say:
"They always say the same thing: 'How tall is the milkman?' At this point I just along with them, 'Yeah, my mom was with the milkman. She only dates guys with professions that no longer exist. That's her thing, yeah. She dated the milkman for a while, before that she was involved with a cobbler. They chimney sweep, chim-chim-cheroo. The town crier, hear ye hear ye. She dated the blacksmith for a fortnight, just a fortnight. She even dated the muffin man; do you know the muffin man?"

If you only knew how hard I laughed when I read that.

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The BIG News (aka Let's Change Things Up a Little)
Posted by joel on Friday, April 16 @ 09:00 PM PST (90 reads)

I was born in Los Angeles and spent my first three years on this planet in Glendora. Ontario was my home for nearly seven years, until Alta Loma became my town of residence when I was ten. I moved out when I was 19, living in San Dimas, Irvine, Riverside, Rancho Cucamonga and, finally, Upland. My wife and I have been here for somewhere around 3 years.
And now it's time for something completely different.

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That Defining Line and Our Need to Define It
Posted by joel on Friday, April 16 @ 09:00 PM PST (35 reads)

While reading through this article about the extinction of language, I stumbled across another fascinating article that relates directly to language and cognition issues that I am currently studying.
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Frontrunner for Quote of the Year
Posted by joel on Friday, March 19 @ 05:00 AM PST (69 reads)

I don't comment very often on general news stories, but I couldn't let this one go by.
In a nutshell, a couple watches "The Passion of the Christ", argues, slaps, stabs and generally causes chaos. The sheriff's deputy, though, has the best line in this whole article: "Really, it was kind of a pitiful thing, to go to a movie like that and fight about it. I think they missed the point."

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I Am So Popular
Posted by joel on Tuesday, March 16 @ 09:29 PM PST (84 reads)

As the last post acknowledges, I have been away for a while. After posting a few minutes ago, I decided to drop in on my HTTP referrers. These are other websites that people came from to visit my site. I wrote about this in this story, where I described how devious marketers are using these to boost their Google popularity. I hadn't, until recently, noticed some of the absolutely hilarious search terms used to get to this website. Read more to check out some of my favorite.
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