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I honor our nation's soldiers by posting photos of happy hours and vacations.

Just a boatload of new photos. I can't even begin to describe them all. Just start yer clicking.

Photos from Eli's first birthday, honoring one year on the throne.

I created a "business card" for my dad - who is retired - to hand out at a conference he just attended. I think it's pretty accurate.

New photos from a grand day!.

New photos from Alex's Bar Mitzvah.

More photos! Eli, Tennessee, and birthday parties - oh my!

I've finally posted a lot of photos from our trip to Argentina. I know it looks like we were very happy and enjoyed ourselves a lot, but do not let the photos fool you - we were miserable the whole time.

I have also posted a new photo album exclusively featuring Will! No one will ever escape from my overbearing uncle's pride now!

Galun.com is back, after taking it down to keep incriminating information from potential employers during my job search. If they want to find out my professional weaknesses and personal flaws, they're going to have to pay me for the privilege of observing me first hand! Now, since I've been hired as a consultant at Accenture, I am free to broadcast my neuroses far and wide! Hah, Accenture, the joke is on you!

Also, I've removed the blog, after my dad forced me to set one up and then never bothered to use it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the joke is on me.

Lots of new photos on Galun.com today, in an effort to keep core constituencies happy:

Don's bachelor party and wedding, to cement good relations between the Jews and the Hindus (there are 700 million of them, you know).

Trips to NYC, so that Nina will stop boycotting this web site.

Lisa's wedding, to provide positive reinforcement for her excellent decision to marry a Josh.

Lots of photos of my nephew, William Gary Cashon, so that he doesn't end up talking about me in therapy one day.

A few updates today.

First, I have finally managed to type up a copy of I.L. Peretz's short story If Not Higher. This is a beautiful story that I hope everyone will read.

Secondly, I have added some new sites to the links section to accurately reflect what I'm reading now.

Finally, Galun.com now has a group blog! After months of hectoring from my dad, I finally gave in and set up Galun & Son Blogging. We'll see how this goes. I'm not feeling particularly eager to blog at the moment, since I've quite enjoyed these last few months of decreasing the amount I time I spend on politics. But, at least my dad's puns will finally be shared with the world.

(The sad thing about setting up a blog is that I created a blog for myself 6 years ago - check out the design here - but took it down because I thought, "Who would ever want to visit my web site on a daily basis just to read about me, my friends, and politics?" Of course, this was before the Internet taught us that everyone is a voyeur when given the opportunity. I don't seriously regret that I didn't continue it - if I had, I'd probably be a starving political hack right now, rather than a relatively well-paid computer hacker - but had I continued it, maybe I'd have made the New York Times instead of Jesse Taylor. *sigh* There is a god, and he hates me.)

I have finally decided. I am voting for Bush.

I've wasted a good number of hours on writing my articles. Many of them state opinions that I no longer believe just a month later. Most of them never get read. I even spent months working on an article that I never finished. But I've never written an article as pointless as this one.

On Saturday, with the Red Sox down 3-0, I had a great idea about how the Sox could reverse the curse. Even though I wanted to spend my day working on my music, instead I spent much of the next 24 hours working on this article. Hell, it's a very good article. Only problem is, the Red Sox went onto become the first team in the history of the three major sports (sorry, hockey, you don't count) to come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series.

D'oh!

I've finally posted my review of Amitai Etzioni's The New Golden Rule. This review took forever, and it doesn't even say everything that deserves to be said about this very interesting - although in my opinion, overreaching - book. *sigh*

In other news, I have been ordered by Simon to link my recent letter in the New York Times (it replies to this idiocy - I swear one day I will be inspired to found a conservative college). This is actually not the first letter I've had in the Times. I think I'm 2 for 4 at getting letters into the Times, but 0 for 2 on op-eds. (The sad thing is that I don't even like letters to the editor - I never, ever read them, because I don't believe it's possible to make an argument worth hearing in just 150 words.)

Anyway, this really will be the last update for a long time. Time to focus on other things...

It's a New Year, and a new Galun.com!

I've always wanted a design switcher, and I get a web designer warm-and-fuzzy knowing that the site is more standards-compliant and accessible. And I get my information architect warm-and-fuzzy knowing that the site is more logically organized, and matches my current interests more accurately.

That being said, it's a freaking pain in the ass to maintain a web site with new content. There are a lot of things I want to do this year that are not web-related, believe it or not. Let's see how much time I can dedicate to this...

Two updates in two days! Do not expect this to continue for a third day. :) Posted pictures of where I am living now. Feel the excitement. Well, two updates down, three to go.

I finally sat myself down and told myself that I was not allowed to go to sleep unless I finished an article. So, the fruit of my forced labor is a new article about the Bush Administration's real policy towards Syria. Of course, it's not the whole story - it's just one aspect of it, that ideally should be clarified and expanded upon - but I wanted to keep it short. Next up: Wedding pictures, pictures of my new place, an article on false premises in Iraq, and an update to the Moore piece.

I thought I'd make my position on Iraq official. I know nobody cares. I just want to say it so I can gloat about being right later. :) And hey, if I'm wrong, having proof that I was wrong will just reinforce humility in the future.

Wedding pictures and toast will hopefully be posted soon...

Why am I still unemployed? It's all my parents' fault! Speaking of which, everyone should send their friends in DC a link to my resume - I need all the help I can get!

After a 5 month layoff, it's been a busy month on Galun.com. Not that I have found a new job yet, or a girlfriend, or even left the house significantly...But I have been writing up a storm. Today, I ask the questions, "How effective is Sharon's hard-line policy?" and "What should we make of the movie 'Bowling for Columbine'?". (The answers: not very, and not much.) And soon I hope to put up a humor piece about finding a job after college, plus a shorter version of the Moore article, for those who can't sit through a research paper.

It's been a while, but I'm finally gracing you with new content. We got an article I wrote about the Democrats' loss in the mid-term elections, as well as this picture, helpfully mocked up by Scott, whose obviously really looking forward to being part of the family.

I put up a bunch of new pictures for you folks. Still no Gil pictures, because I haven't figured out a good enough design to go with Gil's amazing pictures. Looks like there will be no essay on Swarthmore, however, even though I have in the past had many opinions about the place. Basically, the long and short of it is that there are a few very good people there, and you get a great education, but that on the whole the place is stupid, annoying, and crap. Something like that. :)

New (old) pictures, from cleaning out my pictures directory on my computer. Graduation and road trip pictures coming soon. Gil pictures coming as soon as I can figure out a design for the page. Swarthmore essay looking less and less likely.

I finally put my playlist online, so you can see what I listen to. More updates coming soon, including thoughts on 4 years at Swarthmore, loads new pictures, and maybe an update to the links' pages.

I've been reading and enjoying some blogs (personal and political) recently, which has made me think of doing my own. After all, if Lee can have a blog or two then I feel like it's become a respectable thing to do. But then I question the point. I'm not even sure why I should have a web page, so then how can I justify keeping a regular public journal like that? Besides, I've always been wary of keeping a journal - I think it would be depressing to see how my life revolves around the same problems and issues endlessly, and how my thoughts are the same, over and over. And anyway, no one would read it anyway. But, on the other hand, I think that I do have interesting political thoughts to share, so it's tempting...

I know you people. You just want pictures. You don't care about the letters and articles I write. Well fine. Here's new pictures.

I am now officially a college graduate. Rah. In honor, I have updated my transcript. Aren't I smart.

New Kuperberg quotes. Funny funny.

I have added my two most recent letters to the editor of the Swarthmore college newspaper. Read on for a lot of sarcasm and anger. :) Also, I've revamped the organization of the seasonal misc.

I have added new quotes! See if you can pick them out. This is what happens when I skip a class, I have time to waste on stupid things like adding quotes to my web page.

I added pictures from other 21st birthday parties.

I finally finished the links section. Almost the whole site is finally done, all that's left is to finish updating my resume and put my mp3 playlist online.

Pictures of Casey's 21st birthday party now online!

I've reposted my article condemning the Swarthmore community's reaction to the World Trade Center attack.

Wow, two updates in one day. I added An Apology for the Color Scheme of this site.

As I get more and more eager to procrastinate from school work, this page gets better and better. :) I've actually written three new pieces, but only one of them goes up right now because the other two are total crap. Oh well, it's a start. Read all about my Mumia Abu-Jamal saga, involving lots of personal attacks and long-winded articles.

Hoohah...I actually have been updating this page more than this, but this is the first time I've mentioned anything in the server log. A page of summer e-email quotes is up!

Thoughts on the Mets' season by Lee Feigenbaum (good summing up), Andy Borowitz (hilarious!), and yours truly (brief).

Hey! It's yet another galun.com redesign!

More pictures from Japan...will the rolls of film never stop being developed?!

Wow, two updates in the same day! How lucky can you people get? (This is what happens when I leave work early.) I put up the archives of Amiga Link, Shaw, and TNews, my two magazines and a newsletter! Now you can get all those hard-to-find, out-of-print issues you've so dearly wanted.

Better yet, I'm soon adding a links page, and a new resume. And more pictures. And, if Alyssa has her way (and she normally does), an Alyssa page. The hits just keep on coming!

wait for it...wait for it...YES! More quotes! This time courtesy of our dear and close friend Groucho Marx.

Pictures from my Thailand/Japan trip are up. All the photo descriptions are terse, which matches the mood I've been in since...oh, I dunno, May. I probably have some fatigue syndrome. Wonderful. That's my excuse for not doing anything more with the web page, though.

Rancid's song "Radio" from their CD Let's Go is so awesome it's silly. I don't know how their bass player ever got that good. Rancid makes all other bands seem completely lacking in musical talent, poetic ability, and energy.

More random pictures soon, hopefully...

More, always more quotes! Room quotes! Kuperberg quotes! Judge for yourself who is funnier! And for those who care, the coke wars ended at 222 cans by me, 189 for Nick, and 153 for Simon. Thank God school is almost over...

Version 1.2 of my resume is online. Lots better, lots improved. No new information yet, though.

The advice my friends gave me as I prepared to send letters to the incoming freshmen at Swat for whom I was a Campus Advisor.

The first set of pictures from last month's Screw Your Roommate festivities are up. Screw party pics to come soon.

I saw my new doctor last Friday. He told me that "If your blood pressure is low - which yours is - you don't need to worry about sodium. You could eat salt if you want. Besides, I'm sure these noodles don't have that much sodium." Needless to say, I went out and bought 47 packets of Ramen noodles that night.

I've finally started to populate the computers section of the homepage. The first thing to go up is (surprise, surprise!) my page of computer-related quotes, but more is in the works for this section.

Pictures from Winter 1999/2000 are now up!

I've been REALLY busy this semester, so the updates are far and few between. Big surprise. But I did put up a piece I call New Jersey's Hillary Complex for lack of any creativity. Um, it's about Hillary Clinton and New Jersey, and how we hate her. Right.

I updated and corrected mistakes in my resume and I updated the eQuotes with a bunch more funny ones.

I put up my thoughts on the complete failure of my New Years party. I'm pretty pissed, so it's a good read.

I finally added the year 2000 Apple's stock forecast that I've been working on for a couple of weeks. I also put up a faux server log.

I've added the Halloween 1999 pictures page as promised. Definitely worth a look.

I've added a cool picture to the 1999 pictures and put up the invitation to my New Years Party as well as more details on it here. Look for Halloween '99 pictures here soon!

Well, a month after my last update, I finally got around to actually doing some of what I had promised. The pictures page is up, and misc is now actually populated with stuff too! Even my resume is now on the web!

I'm going to be adding pictures and links to friends' pages soon, and thereafter descriptions of my friends...be patient.