Rob’s blog of posts

There are people in the world who will happily pay over $500 for a damn shirt.

In other news, I lost 25 cents in the snack machine at work today.

Ohhhhh yes!

I’m a bit more comfortable in that Second Life stuff now, so I’ll own up to my identity there. If you partake in this particular brand of virtual crack, feel free to say hi to “Rob Triskaidekaphobia.”

And now, for something completely different.. an first-initial-based quiz nicked from the Snowgrouse.

1. Actor/Actress: Rik Mayall
2. 4 letter word: Real
3. Street name: Riverside Drive, from either Manhattan or Back To The Future
4. Color: Red
5. Gift/present: Rock music
6. Vehicle: Rollerskates
7. Tropical Location: República Dominicana
8. College Major: Really didn’t go to college.
9. Dairy Product: Rotten cheese
10. Thing in a Souvenir Shop: Raunchy sayings on t-shirts
11. Boy Name: Rufus
12. Girl Name: Roxanne
13. Movie Title: Room Service
14. Beer: Really don’t drink or know anything about beer, but Wikipedia turns up “Rolling rock”
15. Occupation: Rooster Plucker
16. Flower: Rose
17. Celebrity: Roger Taylor
18. Magazine: Radio Ink
19. U.S. City: Raleigh, NC
20. Band: The Residents

..I did not just register and install Second Life.

Please tell me I am not actually trying out an MMO.

*sigh*

Oh well, at least now I can blame it on my inner OSS-zealot.

Warning: it’s a hell of a nerdy one..

I Am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer
(Doctor Who and the Pirates)

I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer,
I’ve information on all things a Gallifreyan holds most dear,
I’ve linked into the Matrix through its exitonic circuitry,
I understand dimensional and relative chronometry.

I’m very well acquainted too with matters of the Capitol,
I’ll give you verse and chapter on Panopticonian protocol,
I’ve been into the Death Zone and I’ve played the Game of Rassilon–
(Rassilon? Assilon, Bassilon.. ah-ha!)
With pestilential monsters that I got a lot of hassle from!

With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle from!
With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle from!
With pestilential monsters that he got a lot of hassle-hassle from!

I understand each language and I speak every vernacular,
I’ll conjugate each verb obscure, decline each line irregular,
In short in every matter that a Gallifreyan holds most dear,
I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer.

In short in every matter that a Gallifreyan holds most dear,
he is the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer!

I’ve tackled shady Castellans with devious behavior,
I’ve sparred with Time Lord chancellors like Thalia, Goth, or Flavia.
In fact on some occasions I’ve held office Presidentially,
Though maybe I won’t mention I was ousted out eventually.

I know just how it feels to be a wanted man and on the run,
But wouldn’t leave the carefree buccaneering life for anyone,
Though sometimes my adventures seem absurdly operatical,
(Operatical? Hatical, patical.. ah-ha!)
With ups and down and twists and turns and incidents piratical.

With ups and down and twists and turns and incidents piratical!
With ups and down and twists and turns and incidents piratical!
With ups and down and twists and turns and incidents pirati-ratical!

I’ve sailed the seven seas of Earth and all the oceans of the Moon,
My trusty true Type 40 is my Gallifreyan picaroon,
But is this really what the average Gallifreyan holds most dear?
I wonder what they think about this Gallifreyan Buccaneer.

But is this really what the average Gallifreyan holds most dear!
We wonder what they think about this Gallifreyan Buccaneer!

But…

I’ve defeated evil robots such as Daleks, Quarks, and Cybermen,
I’ve overthrown dictators from Tobias Vaughn to Mavic Chen,
I’ve rescued helpless maidens from the devastating Viking hordes,
Vanquished Autons, Axons, Daemons, Krotons, Monoids, Vampires, Voords.

I’ve liberated planets and delivered them from total war,
Saved Earth, Manussa, Dulkis, Skonnos, Earth, Tigella, Earth once more,
In short I know I am the truest Rassilonian legate,
(Legate? Decate, Hecate.. Hecate? Mm, not sure if that’s canonical.. ah-ha! I have it!)
And so to Time Lords all I say remember me to Gallifrey!

A sentiment we all agree, remember him to Gallifrey!
A sentiment we all agree, remember him to Gallifrey!
A sentiment we all agree, remember him to Galli-Gallifrey!

I’m not content to just observe, I am a bold adventurer,
Though other Time Lords mock this Gallifreyan interventioner,
I know in every matter that a Time Lord really should hold dear,
I am the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer.

We know in every matter that a Time Lord really should hold dear,
He is the very model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer!

Link via Louis..

If American ads were this awesome, I’d get a TV.

Thanks to Diggets, I learned my blog comments have been shot for a while. And here I was thinking I was just hideously unpopular! Thanks, Diggets!

Everything should be fine for now, but I’ll have to shift things around anyway. The theme I hacked together for this blog was basically my first combined shot at CSS, PHP, and in fact Wordpress at all. So, the code is basically held together with the digital equivalent of sticky tape and swear words, which has somehow pretty much held together for two years and change. My site is begging for a redesign anyway, so I’ll attack the whole project at once when I get the chance.

Not now, though. I ditched work early yesterday thanks to the sort of pounding migraine that makes one really displeased with Edison and Newton for inventing Light and Gravity, and it was still pretty bad this morning. It’s been clearing up, though, thanks to a regimen of slightly interrupted sleep from about 3PM yesterday to right about now.

Perhaps I’m overextending myself just a bit lately.

Speaking of which, the 2600 meeting is tonight, the perfect opportunity to pimp out my new NYC2600 site. I have high hopes for it.

In other news, Grey on a Plane! She’s been terribly missed. Sadly she isn’t getting back in time for the meeting, but it’ll sure be nice to have my best friend in the same country and time zone as me again.

Happy New Year!

I, for one, am ready for 2007 to kick 2006’s sorry keester in each and every way.

For the InSoc fans out there, I made an Information Society themed New Years card. (Check this out if you don’t get what passes for the joke. Then, get the album immediately, for it is great.)

I spent the evening with my mom and the cats, watching the Times Square thing, and enjoying the latest performance by the DIC-20 android.

How did you celebrate Nude Ears?