Tuesday, September 19, 2006

New Guy, New Links, Same Scene

Hey there people -- I'm Jeff, and I'm the
new voice/programming lead for AOL Journals, and appropriately, I'll be running
the show here at Magic Smoke. For those of you that haven't met me yet (or "met"
me yet), this is what I look like:




Rather, that is what I looked like last Thanksgiving. But I don't
change my look much. (This was actually taken for Talk Like a Pirate Day.)

I'll be doing all the same stuff Joe
did -- highlighting member content, offering helpful tutorials when I can,
stepping onto a well-worn soapbox to opine about things I have enver experienced
(this is a blog, hello), and above all else -- giving you links to talk about.
Like these:

Bill Clinton's appearance on 'The
Daily Show'

A Lamborghini as a
centerpiece

In
honor of [that day]:
Pyrats!
Dr. Seuss'
Taxidermy

That's all for now -- see you very soon.

--Jeff

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing personal Jeff, but do any normal people work at AOL?  LOL (I'm going from this picture of you, Joe's Hello Kitty calendar, and John...well you know how he is.....LOL)

Kathy

Anonymous said...

hi, hopefully you won't be overly technical like Joe was lol , never understood him

Anonymous said...

Hi Jeff, Hope you enjoy your new job. Would you by any chance be related to my brother in law? He used to have a skull in his bedroom years ago which he got while digging in Indian grounds on their land. Don't know if he still has it or not. This was before I came into the family by marriage. Helem

Anonymous said...

Normal = boring in the blog world. We're trying to entertain here.

Anonymous said...

Hey Jeff! Welcome!

Martha :-)
http://journals.aol.com/lifes2odd/Justvisiting/
http://journals.aol.com/lifes2odd/LifesLittleChallenges/

Anonymous said...

ah would say your tough as nails JEFF but I think its skulls lol

Anonymous said...

Welcome Mr. Jeff!   I'm sure you're gonna be JUST fine here!  We don't bite.   (often)

Nancy

Anonymous said...

I'm assuming Joe took his Hello Kitty calender along with him !!  Please say you don't have a Dora The Explorer one !

Anonymous said...

Yaarrr...  It looks like you and Scalzi have the same barber.  

Welcome to the party!

-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/

Anonymous said...

By the way, you DO know that TODAY is Talk Like a Pirate Day, right?  

If not, ye be walkin' th' plank t'morrow and doin' yer bloggin' from the locker of Davy Jones.  Yaar..  har-har...

-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/

Anonymous said...

Your not from Penzance are you ?    Hi Jeff !
Jayne
http://journals.aol.co.uk/funnyface0s0/SingleGirl

Anonymous said...

You'll have to see to the "about me" section in pretty short order, Mr. Shoort. I'm a bit pissed, I must tell you. The most satisfaction I got on a day to day basis came from making fun of Joe's hair. What'm I gonna do now?
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/

Anonymous said...

HELLO JEFF...THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO EMAIL ME ON YOUR FIRST DAY!
GOOD LUCK HERE!
CARLENE

Anonymous said...

Now we have a face to go with the name... it's been nice working with you during my guest editorship a few weeks ago. Good luck, I know you have big shoes to fill, but you are the man to fill them. Bea

Anonymous said...

Welcome!!! Hope your stay is a long one.... Look forward to reading this blog.... Tawnya

Anonymous said...

We can always make fun of his eating habits, Paul.  They seem a little, umm, eccentric.   Maybe the pickings were a little slim last Thanksgiving, and if that's the case, I hope he gets a nice, fat bag of dough with his new position.  If not, well, there's no way in hell I'm going to Jeff's house for dinner.  I'm lazy and beer fed like a nice Kobe beef.  

-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/


Anonymous said...

Welcome aboard, Jeff!
Charley
http://journals.aol.com/cdittric77/courage

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Anonymous said...

Hi Jeff, your looking a bit carniverous in that photo, lol...its funny. I have a question. I just started another journal and I changed the journal address. It was:

http://journals.aol.com/rebuketheworld/random-thoughts-connected..../

But then I deleted the ....        because I didnt want it in the url but the dots wont go away.


I really want it to be this
http://journals.aol.com/rebuketheworld/random-thoughts-connected/

Any advice?

thanks Jeff, Raven

Anonymous said...

Hey Jeff, I figured it out. Have a great day.

Anonymous said...

Welcome, Jeff!

Krissy
http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink

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Anonymous said...

"Alas, poor Yorick, I gnew him well?"
-Paul

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Wow...  Looks like Jeff learned a lot from his time in the Peace Corps where he built huts in Papua New Guinea.  

-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/

Anonymous said...

Did it taste like chicken? - Karen

Anonymous said...

welcome aboard.

Anonymous said...

I hope you didn't break any teeth on that skull. LOL
Welcome new guy. Hey would you know why my editor sometimes bunches up letters and doesn't allow me to seperate them in the editier like "itis" occassionally or the spell check has weird suggestion of spellings like for misadventure they suggest mis ad venture?

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the Clinton links. I hadn't seen him on "The Daily Show"......Great stuff.
Angela

Anonymous said...

hey!
welcome!
elisa

Anonymous said...

thats hillarious that you know talk like apirate day im doing the book treasure island for school and my teacher told me about talk like a pirate day

Anonymous said...

Dear Jeff,
I'm so happy!
Welcome Aboard!(((((Jeff is cool))))))))
natalie

Anonymous said...

welcome you and welcome me :)