I built this site with my own hands in 1998, so it is getting to be almost my 9th year anniversary, and I'm sure you can tell by the professional glamour type imaging and text wrapping that I am using.. out of my basement.. in my spare time.. yup. New movie recommendation: Spanglish. Even newer recommendation: Serenity. Also check out Firefly the series, it's really well done, too bad it was cancelled and there is only 13 episodes.

Seriously, Spanglish is a great movie and no one talks about it. Just say Spanglish to yourself right now, you won't regret it. How could you?

So here's what more to expect and look forward to out of my site, along with various other random things that are probably meh to everyone, but are fun to make:

• Writing a section on my opinion of things
• Even posting some movie/tv show reviews here and there.
• Expect some more about me on here too! Dag Yo!
  

i heart you all                                                                       especially you

March 21, 2007: I am usually kind of crazy when I try new things, but what was I thinking here? This time around I tried to do a front flip immediately into a backflip! It's funny because I am too scared to try a backflip by itself, so to psyche myself up enough into trying it, I figured that a front flip would do it. Anyway, here are the results. Well, that's all for now. Now that it's getting warmer outside, I may be able to pull some more tricks out of my sleeve. Click here to see if I can actually do a front flip into a back flip. Here's a hint.. no, but I never thought I could get as far as I did!

March 5th, 2007: Here is the next installment of backflip season. Can I do a back flip in Japan? Click here to find out! (Or click on the picture.) I know I said I'd be doing them in Peterborough, but hey, whatever. I was doing some flips off of snow board rails on the weekend, but I forgot to bring my video camera so I got nothing there.. poor us. Oh, and I have a special announcement.. Muah!

February 22, 2007: Due to the recent demand of my website (huh??), I've added another update. This will be the start of a series that I call "Can he do a backflip here?" Click here for the first video, and also check out the new Backflips Page! Background info: Although I can do a front flip with reasonable confidence, in no way am I confident with my backflipping abilities. In fact, either all of my backflip attempts or at least most of them I've done with a video camera and are now on this website (except the ones in water). So I will be trying to do backflips at various places around Peterborough. I just hope I don't hurt myself.. I'm not kidding, it's pretty scary every time. In fact, now that I think about it, I remember one day a summer or two ago that I tried about 10 back flips in a row in my backyard and I didn't land on my feet for any of them haha. In hindsight, it's pretty silly that I kept trying.

February 3, 2007: Well this is within an hour of my last update, but since it's past midnight I will call this another update (even though the other one was also past midnight). I think I'm gonna make another secret lair sometime. Look out for that in the next 6-8 months. This time I am actually anticipating it will be a while instead of fooling myself into thinking I will update it once a month or more or whatever. That gets me thinking, where and what will I be doing in 6-8 months? Yikes. And don't ask me, I hate that question (OK, you can ask me if you really want to).

February 2, 2007: Update! I made a favicon for my homepage! Now everyone asks what that is.. go ahead. Ask out loud... It's the small pic that appears in the address bar and possibly in your bookmarks folder (assuming you have bookmarked my homepage.. which I have, myself). I couldnn't choose what pic to use for it, but maybe I'll make a different one appear, depending on the day of the week, or the hour of the day or something. It's too bad the pic is so small because you can hardly see anything. If you have any suggestions for a pic to use as a favicon, email me! Taa-taa for now, suckers!

November 7, 2006: Well it's been a while eh? Yeah, I used 'eh'. My friend, Sato Yasufumi, I am sorry I am slow in putting this video on my webpage, but here it is, finally! It's a video of me driving home from university. [Click here for a smaller size download.] Not really interesting to most people, but if you've never been to Canada, and lived in Japan all your life, you can imagine it's pretty different. I will update again soon (I hope?), since I have some stuff to put up finally.

June 23, 2006: I found this toon at some website a week ago so I figure I'll just take it. I wonder if I get sued. It didn't say who it was from when I found it so I will also give no credit. I'm such a thief. No one has found my $10 free give-away yet. As for me, I am shocked. Well if you find a special message promising $10 then just do what it says to get the money. I'll hand it to ya or paypal it over or something. I will be in Japan from July 24th to August 27th, just in case you were going to throw me a suprise party.

April 27, 2006: Some quick words of wisdom: "Think before you speak." That and "Sheep Herder 2.0"

April 26, 2006: Yup, still 2006. Not a bad year. So last week we had our first patch of nice summer-like weather so I figured I'd commesmerate (heck ya that's a word) the occasion by putting up one of my first summer pics! My last exam of the year is tomorrow morning, but it's one of those classes that makes sense, but they try to trick you with their multiple choice. Those fools! But who cares, because it's summer! Booyakashaw! PS, if you click on the picture I put the high-res original up, except I air-brushed my nail! Oh yeahh, MS Paint air-brushing action! I am that self-conscious! (... and awesome!) On another note, I am heading back to Japan this summer! (pending one more meeting)

March 3, 2006: Just a reminder to everyone out there: it's my birthday on the 19th of this month! This messages gives you 2 weeks to get me a(n) HDTV! That's all I want for my birthday, so if you are planning on giving me a candle then (first of all, you're an idiot, a candle is the default present for girls, not guys) then think again! HDTV. Or a new video camera? That'd be awesome too. Oh yea, and check out video.google.com, I put some of my videos up on there a few days ago. Just search "Joel Anderson" or "Super awesome man" or similar phrases. Actually, if you searched "Super awesome man" then you'll find "Kent Hovind Reveals The Truth About The Age Of The Earth And Evolution!" That's kinda funny. Actually I may watch this, it seems interesting so far. Was Kent Hovind the guy that we saw those dinosaur movies from back with Laurie Howlett?

December 10, 2005: Hello! Turns out I still have some creativity in me, despite the lack of updates. I put together a little video of something I very skillfully (you'll see) drew. It's actually a movie of a short story that happened to me the other day.. when I met these two girls.. and it didn't turn out so well.. Check it out here! Or click on the picture! By the way, don't forget to vote in my super hero poll! You may not think it's worthwhile, but.. er.. I have no argument actually. It's not.

June 27, 2005: Yesterday, my friend Joel and I were up to our usual antics and learned some new moves at the beach. I'll be sure to tape our first attempts on ground (rather than in water), which is exceedingly more dangerous.. exceedingly. Right now the video camera is with someone else, but when it's back we'll perform, live! OK I was impatient so we used my webcam to record instead. Click on the picture to download. Oh and I re-editted the Millenium Park video (the last one I put up). June 15, 2005: I no longer support Lindsay Lohan (ironically partly because of all the artificial "support" she's paid for, if ya know what I mean). I just needed to get that off my chest.. no pun intended, hah. I should have intended a pun though, that's kinda funny. Then again, will anyone get that? Anyway, now that I've started updating my site, I'll add something that you probably don't know about me yet (to whom in may concern, yes you).

June 7, 2005: Ever been to Millenium Park? Wondering how one could get into the position being advertised on the right? Check out the highlights from my recent visit. I mixed in some Death Cab for Cutie music also which makes it extra special. Click on the pic; the stunts start in the middle of the video. As usual, high quality is my motto. If you have dial-up, then you may want to go over to a friends, maybe have a hello joel dot com party, and if so, then take some video and do some crazy stuff and you can be an honourable guest.

March 21, 2005: Hah! I am 20. That's all I need to say about that. On a side note, it seems that I mainly update my webpage when I need to get something done, so I do this instead. Definately have a review paper due in 16.5 hours, but I'm nearly half done so don't worry about it. I just finished making something for your viewing pleasure, but be warned, I didn't wear a shirt as I did not plan on making this video into something for people to see. Click the picture, if ya didn't assume that already. What could I be doing???!!!!!!11one

January 12, 2005: I am kind of forced to give you a hint about potential hidden messages. Most people use Internet Explorer, which I used to like, but now I like Firefox much better. But while testing out both browsers for this site, I found out that some of the html and javascript work in different ways, but I found a way to compensate for that. So basically, Internet Explorer users will be getting one type of hint, and Firefox users will be getting another (Netscape users probably get the Internet Explorer one, though possible both). So right now if you are smart, you're probably thinking of using both, which probably would help but isn't necessary. Anyway, I am going to try to toss in another hint or message that doesn't use html or javascript at all so that'll be interesting. By the way, I added a message today.

January 11, 2005: I've always liked the idea of hidden messages. Kind of like in A Beautiful Mind, though he doesn't end up faring too well. So tonight I figured out how I could hide some messages on this page that could be discovered by you being attentive and genius, but mostly just attentive. Don't try too hard though, because ya might end up with a beautiful mind, and I don't mean the general, good, beautiful, but more the wow-you-can-live-with-that-disability type beautiful, aka Hellen Keller type beauty. I think I'll try to do a couple different difficulty levels in the messages though, because I don't wanna make one that's really hard to do, because then no one would do it, though I don't wanna make them too easy either. So I'm gonna do both. I'll start ya off with a new word.. Disneyology, the study of Disney. No hidden message there (or is there?), but nevertheless, I like the word.

January 10, 2005: Created a poll that actually works, hurrah! Vote on your favourite Superhero because this is a key issue, somewhere, probably. And that potential existence prompts me to act in order to get them some raw data, yah! You can vote once a day, so if you feel very strongly for a certain superhero, then you're just going to have to vote and vote until you collapse. PS, please don't collapse, that's a liability that I can't take.

January 9, 2005: Need some new and useful corners of the internet to explore? Well check these pages out! Herein lies Joel's secret stash of web pages, two of which I actaully go to weekly, the rest being useful as well. I'm going to mention that I am listening to Bjork right now because I usually don't listen to her, but this time I am. I have no idea what she's saying, and when I can make out words, I still usually don't understand, but some of it is pretty good.

January 8, 2005: In order to please, I've gathered most of the videos from this site into one place: the video page. Turn your sound on to get the most out of the videos.

January 7, 2005: It is 2005 now, get your uhh.. pens and pencils ready and write down the date. Sure. Time off school is great, so much fun, soon to be followed up by so much less fun, but I hardly even care! Kindly enough, mon ami Ryan Kohls taped and editted a little clip of me getting a strike for the website, it's less than two megs so get it here.

December 8, 2004: Free to the general public: my Spider-man climb. Click the picture to download the video. New opinion in response to my issues with The OC. Also includes my new show potential at the end, but you'll get to that. PS, there is no right answer when filling out a questionnaire on self-esteem. Speaking of which, if you want to read the study that I did for social psychology, you can get to that from the link to my University work directory in the links section near the bottom of the page. It was a study on whether self-esteem affects how highly we consider ourselves compared to others.

November 25, 2004: The wait is over! Game two is now online, play it, check your competence level, compare yourself to the greats. Well you can't compare yourself to the greats, but you can check your competence level, with a maximum of still-less-competent-than-me!   Mwahahah!

November 21, 2004: I've had enough language ambiguity in my life so I lashed out. Read about examples of and the solution to everyone's worst fear on the opinions page. On a side note, for those of you who don't think I'm a superhero, I am trying hard to change your mind! If you check out the new convincing videos in the secret lair you'll see what I mean.

November 20, 2004: I am working on another website puzzle for you people to solve. It's similar to the maze but there will be a lot more to it and it will be harder to solve. I will post a link to that page in a few days when it is done. I put a pic up on a page about the site stats and tried to explain some of the odd nature.

November 11, 2004: I updated the secret lair with more pic(s) and 5 more videos. Gotta get your access! Tomodachi wa wakarimasu ka. "Website hellojoel.com's secret lair was one of the years most thrilling web pages!" -Washinton Post. "A must visit" -LA Times. "A riveting display of character" -Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-man. "Well he's not hurting anybody" -Yahoo News.

November 8, 2004: Ever break the law? Of course not, me neither! But we faked it! That's right, check out our fake kidnapping. We even had a random spectator watch everything unfold in front of her eyes. Click the picture to download.

November 3, 2004: I just came up with a new game. I call it, spot the typo. Yes, it is a bad game and probably no one will play it, but I will be hosting the game. The game, as you might not expect, consists of furious thinking. That's all! Just think mind-numbingly hard, literally (well no, of course not actually literally). Yeah you might have expected spot the typo to have something to do with spotting a typo, but what can I say, it doesn't.

November 1, 2004: Stand-up comedy has gone too far this time! That's right, more opinions! Everyone cheer! Go ahead, cheer at home or in the office! The opinions page, in case you didn't know how to get there.

October 28, 2004: Previously documented was my front flip, which I have basically mastered. But I lost that footage somewhere of that one so this time you get to see my practice backflips. That's right, practice. On an unproductive Saturday in the summer, when all my friends were at concerts, I tried to learn something new so I gave it a shot. Did it end in a digger or triumph? Click the picture to find out. I also added a pic to the main page and some more Jack Handy quotes to the Jack Handy quotes page.

October 26, 2004: I figured out what (virtually) everyone has in common and I wrote about it! Feel justified in your hatred of mathematics! The opinions page now talks about a major problem with math. It is truly unbelievable. I mean I didn't believe it.

October 14, 2004: Well I've had tons of work due in the past couple weeks, but I am getting through it and finding ways to update nevertheless! I felt the need to submit Superman a salute, so you can find that here. Superman, I Salute You. Also added some Lana Lang pictures from a link on that page.

September 28, 2004: Added an opinion to the opinions page. I now officially have a plethora of opinions. Though I really don't, I can say whatever I want, no one is marking me. Also added a video I made of myself to the secret lair and also added some more pics to the site. If you have any pictures of me or yourself or anything then send them on over to me and I'll probably put them somewhere.

September 23, 2004: The highly anticipated match up between Spider-man and Wolverine is now documented! Check it out at the opinions page. PS, I wasn't joking when I recommended Aladdin, it's awesome! Also, I made the secret lair less easily accessible. You now have to figure out a puzzle around the webpage. Here's your first hint: take your time here.

September 22, 2004: The maze has been updated and is now finished. Get the whole thing right and, well, I'm not telling you actually. Unless you ask, but you can't unless you first get out of that computer chair, come to my front door and pose the question. Just find out for yourself.

September 16, 2004: I just whipped up a letter that I could send to Lindsay Lohan if I was feeling really really confident one day but my vision was clouded from desire. I think that day will come, but who really knows. I naturally assumed that you would want a copy of it, so go ahead, and take notes young lover boys, you want to impress your women with your sensitivity.

September 13, 2004: I never used to watch much TV which I always thought was a good thing. But I'd say it's not bad to watch a good show each week, though channel surfing for an evening is definately a waste. I found some good TV shows so I'm gonna tell ya's all about 'em! Check! It! Out!

September 12, 2004: Well my classes start tomorrow morning so I thought I might as well give 'er an update before I go to bed. Added a pic of me to the homepage, spice it up a bit ya know? I think people gotta appreciate that smirk.

Taken in August of the summer of 2004 at Rachel's cottage of Rachel, Celine, Mark, and me.

August 5, 2004: Everyone wants to know what I think about Superman and his abilities so I wrote them down. Check out the opinions page. Also changed around the page's format too.

July 8, 2004: Added a new opinion on the opinions page. I would compare my writing abilities to that of.. Stephen Hawking.. sure. Well I just figured out that my flip slideshow wasn't working for most people so I fixed that. Also I took out the background colour changing button at the bottom because it stopped working when I started using a picture for a background.

June 7, 2004: I updated the site with a new link to the opinions section that I just created so you'll have to check that out. I'll give some more opinions in the future. I know, everyone cares what I think! Yeah!

May 19, 2004: Well that fire was short lived. First update in a while. A few people have told me they've been to this site; here's to you guys! Anyway, I think I basically finished all of the changes to the "feel" of the site so it looks nice and friendly so I can reel in the traffic. Check back, ya never know when I'll update it!

April 9, 2004: Changed the look and feel of the homepage around, going to start writing in the opinion section hopefully tomorrow. Feel free to e-mail me and lemme know what ya think of the whole thing, or suggestions of new stuff to add.

April 6, 2004: In the spirit of updates, here's another little message I'll let you all in on. I'm probably going to be starting something called a "Blog". I just learned about them yesterday (yea I know, some webmaster I am, STAY MORE UPDATED JOEL) and it looks like it will be easy to post updates and even (possibly) for you guys to post stuff also, kind of like message boards, but I guess not.

April 6, 2004: Look, here's an Update! Whoaaaa! (All the diehard fans scream with excitement!)
I just upgraded the Angelfire account so I have some more bandswidth and space, and I even got a domain name! www.hellojoel.com            <------- Yea baby, yea!

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