Sorry folks, this is no longer in use. It wasn’t that popular, and now it’s given up it’s space on the navigation for something better.
This is where you can ask the “frequently asked questions.” Questions can be about this web site or myself. They’re your questions, and I will answer them.
Brandon Johnson (Lval2001@aol.com) | 2000.04.01
wat is the meaning of zoso
I see that you’re refering to the answer to the first question to my FAQs (bottom of this page).
Chrysti (cmeternity12999@aol.com) | 2000.02.13
Just wondering, who is Chrysti from Blissfully Chrysti? Her name is spelled the same way mine is and that is very strange to me.
Blissfully Chrysti is one of my oldest poems. I wrote it back when I was a senior in high school (1993 - 1994), and when I was online on Prodigy (back when the World Wide Web was still being born). I was online-best-friends with this girl Onica. One day we were talking about middle names, and she said that—although she knew her middle name—she didn’t know the proper spelling of it because both her mother and father spelled it different ways. I suggested that she combine the two different was they spelled it: “Chrysti.”
Later some time, I wrote a poem for/about her... and I named it “Blissfully Chrysti.”
Felicity (ms_fliss@yahoo.com) | 1999.12.16
Who, in your opinion, was the greatest poet of all time?
Ouch. Tough, tough question... (insert typical joke: “I am”). You know, I’m really not much of a poetry reader. Sure, I write, and my emotions and thoughts and feelings flow through the words (and mostly enchant me as I really write poetry as some way of expressing myself almost to myself, and I put it online in the hopes that others might like it as I do). But, I’ve never really been much of a reader of who you might consider poets (like who? Keats? Poe? Shakespeare?). The type of “poetry” I do enjoy (and get inspired by) is lyrics. Such artists as Hum, Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, and Belly/Tanya Donelly).
So, with that as my basis of favorite “poets”, I think I would have to pick ... none. Or rather the people behind the bands I mentioned (Billy Corgan, Peter Grabriel, Roger Waters, and Tanya Donelly (and whoever the lyrical genius of Hum is)). I really can’t place one above another as they all have their own uniqueness about them. To say that one person is the greatest above all others, when there are so many different forms of “poetry/lyrics”, I just can’t force myself into making that type of a judgement.
So, I’m sorry, but I really have no answer for your question.
Mike McGrath (mpmcgra@ilstu.edu) | 1999.11.19
What is your opinion of the “hitler mustache”? Do you feel he has ruined a perfectly good facial hair style?
I’ve never really thought about that before. (Didn’t Charlie Chaplin also have that mustache?) I guess I would have to say “yes” (thought it could also be said that if Hitler didn’t ruin it, than Chaplin did for making it comical). But now that makes me think that if they didn’t ruin it, somebody or some other group would have. Doesn’t it seem that all forms of facial hair have some type of stereotype associated with them? For example, a mustache with the ends twisting up in curls is usually associated with someone French or pompous; a mustache shaved in the middle but very long and straight down from the ends is usually associated with old Chinese men. So, I would have to agree that, even though history/culture may have given it some other association than it’s current “evil, murderous dictator” stereotype, it still would have been an appreciated addition to the varieties of facial hair.
Ryan Hammonds | 1999.10.23
Do you still have that page with the planets on it where you can scroll through the distances between the planets?
Yes, that page still exists, as do almost any other home page of mine you might have seen. My current total of home pages is 42, and (if you have a javascript enabled browser) each time you pass through my site’s entrance you will be taken to a home page at random.
The “solar system” page is at http://www.joek.com/other/homepages/home13.html.
Eddy (eddyyang@bigfoot.com) | 1999.08.01
Hi i was just wondering why did you put your site in the i love masturbation webring , i mean i didn’t see anything related to that topic your site , thank you
Actually, there is something very relative to the I love masturbation webring on my site. If you look at my “self” page (http://www.joek.com/self/), and then read in the “what?” section, I’m sure you’ll find a perfectly good explanation as to why I can participate in the I love masturbation webring.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this question was originally answered, there have been some changes to my life and this web site. The previous answer to this question is no longer completely valid. Masturbation is still fun, but now there are other fun things.
Joek Veldman (jveldman@xs4all.nl) | 1999.05.16
My name is Joek. It’s a frisian name. What is Joek for you?
“JoeK” is the combination of my first name “Joe” and the first letter of my last name “Kaczmarek.” I came up with this when I first got into writing poetry (and doing art work as I was taking 2D art in high school at the time). “JoeK” became my shorthand and pseudonym for my writings and my artwork. When I joined AOL, I tried to get “JoeK” for my screen name, but it was taken. When I got my car, I tried to get “JoeK” for my personalized tag, but it too was taken. Then came the web, and when I learned about web sites and domain names, that was when I tried to get “JoeK” for a domain name... and I’ve been here ever since.
Mike Farrell | 1999.04.27
what is the background for Trin/Cros/Junipar/Waesoom ?
I thought up of the symbol Trin a long time ago. It actually came from when I first found out about the symbols Led Zeppelin used for themselves on Led Zeppelin IV (a.k.a.: Zoso). I got an idea to think up of a symbol for myself. Since my favorite number is 3 (it seems like a universal number to me as so many things seem to be made up of 3s), the symbol had to have connotations of 3 in it. And from somewhere in imagination came the symbol Trin. Later came the name Trin. I needed a name for it which symbolized three. The best I could think of was Trinity, but, due to the religious references with that, I nicknamed it to Trin.
The symbols Crös, Junipar, and Waesoom came to me one day while I was bored at a temp job. The desk I was working at had a cylindrical pencil holder (although it was wider in the center than at the top and bottom) and a lot of rubber bands. So I was bored and I wrapped the pencil holder with the rubber bands (each band exactly touching the other one as to cover the pencil holder with rows of rubber bands top to bottom). This made it look like a pencil holder made out of bamboo strips or something. This made me think of it as if it was made in some tropical/Caribbean location, and I thought to put some artwork on it to further induce that feeling.
I believe that’s how I first thought up of the three suns, but in case not, I was thinking of how there were different was to do a drawing of the sun, and I came up with these three different ones. One (Crös) is fiery and seems like anger and hate. Junipar seems like joy and happiness. The last (Waesoom) seems like sorrow and sadness. So then, on this pencil holder (on the rubber bands) I used a marker to draw these three suns. Later came naming them.
Junipar was easy. This was a word I had thought up of a long time before (while playing Civilization II; I needed city names, so I would create them as if in a language that my “civilization” used; “junipar” seemed like a word for “joy” or “happiness” just as jovial is). Since one of the suns seemed happy, I called it Junipar. Since the vocalization of “Junipar” feels light and happy, I needed the other two names to match the emotion of their sun. Crös came next (for the angry sun) as it is a harsh sounding word. And finally came Waesoom—a very sad and low sounding word.
And thus came the origins of Trin, Crös, Junipar, and Waesoom; later to be integrated into my first home page (http://www.joek.com/other/homepages/home0.html) for the current version of my site.
Joe Kaczmarek.
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