JoelJohnson.com Lives Again
I couldn't have picked a worse time to move my blog over to new hosting than the week I left Gizmodo—the one time I probably could have picked up a few subscribers and readers of my own. No big deal; I'm not really trying to build up a following on my personal blog, which would be sort of weird. Nonetheless, it's good to be back. Now stop reading this.
In addition to this site, I've also gotten Grandma Lemons' cookbook back online, as well, which had been crippled due to comments spammers but is now clean as a whistle. Grandma hand-bound six books of her recipes, one for each of her children. She used the same three-ring binders my Grandfather and she had used to make custom hymnals. She printed the recipes off on the TRS-80 Model 4P (that I still have locked up in my parents' shed) using a Lemons-brand word processing program.
Of course, the limited number of copies meant that we 30-some-odd grandkids got shafted, so my mom and I scanned and hand-typed in the recipes from her original copy and put them online. I'm glad they are easily accessed again, except by those who want to write about raging, veiny dongs on her cheesecake recipe.
Hey Joel! Looking forward to some interesting writing. Any idea what your going to do now?
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I'm continuing doing the freelance I was doing while at Gizmodo, just on a (hopefully) more frequent basis. Most of that is magazine work, though. I hope to have some sort of online outlet soonish, although I'm not quite sure what that'll be.
loved your stuff on gizmodo, was bummed to hear you go, now relieved to see you'll still be writing with infused hilarity. i promise you beer if you're ever in DC.