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About Me

I hated working in a cubicle so I left the corporate world in July and will never go back.I like to do stuff outside but have trouble figuring out what to do. Though I do have a trampoline in my back yard.I'm working on a plan to be able to travel everywhere in the world and not have to worry about money. I'll get back to you on how I plan on doing that.I am of average height. Well, the average height for males in the year 1710. True story, I looked it up.One of my life goals is to have a Study in my house, and to have one of the books on a shelf double as a secret lever that spins you around and takes you to some secret room.

My Interests

books, real estate investing, movies, vegetarian-ing, NLP, video games, board games, blood bowl, capoeira, fantasy football, trampolines, wine, chess, hypnosis, beach, writing, europe, spanish

I'd like to meet:

Tim Ferris, Howard Stern

Music:

power hours

Movies:

Braveheart, Moulin Rouge, Princess Bride, the Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, Swingers, Grease, Neverending Story, Star Wars, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Office Space, Tombstone, Rounders, Reservior Dogs, Almost Famous, Blow, My Best Friend's Wedding, Shawshank Redemption, Chasing Amy, My Cousin Vinny, Ocean's 11, Zoolander, the Breakfast Club, Bye Bye Love, Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellas, X-Men 1 and 2, Memento, Donnie Darko, Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, American History X

Television:

Lost, The Office, Coupling, Ali G, Curb you Enthusiasm, Big Love, Rome, Entourage, Heroes, Nip/Tuck, Buffy

Books:

The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Prince, Faust, Hamlet, 1984, Animal House, Slaughterhouse 5, Evasion, the Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Dragonlance Chronicles, Conversations with God, Celestine Prophecy, Memoirs of a Geisha

Heroes:

Peter Gibbons

Harry Houdini

Tyler Durden

Doc Holliday

Machiavelli

My Blog

the Forrest Gump dilemma

It's weird about Forrest Gump. If you're a girl, you want a guy who'll protect you and stand up for you and Forrest will do just that. If some guy disrespects you in any way he'll walk right up and me...
Posted by non corporate rob on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:33:00 PST

Kudos to a certain movie and a certain TV show

Whilst sitting here at my laptop, Danny the Manny put on Billy Madison in the background.What a movie.Every scene is great. Every line is great. There is just nothing not great about the movie.I've be...
Posted by non corporate rob on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:01:00 PST

Jamaica Insights

I got back from Jamaica last week and I think it's time for a blog. Here are some key points that were quite noticeable:1) Do you remember that movie from the 90s "Cool Runnings"? Where the Jamaica bo...
Posted by non corporate rob on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:50:00 PST

Jesus vs. Moses

You may think that if Jesus were to get in a fight with Moses, Jesus would kick some serious ass. Maybe not. Let's check this out:Best Shape: Jesus was a nimble 33 years of age when he was causing a r...
Posted by non corporate rob on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:14:00 PST

Elevator rules

I just read in my body language book section 'Why we hate riding in elevators' some common unwritten rules of riding in elevators: 1. There will be no talking to anyone, including a person you know.2....
Posted by non corporate rob on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:54:00 PST

Kinky Quizzo

NOTE: I copy and pasted this 100% from Dave's blog. Give him all the credit and yell at him for spelling errors.Well I'm happy to say 3rd place out of twelve isn't bad. It took a combined effort...
Posted by non corporate rob on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:02:00 PST

We were Piano Groupies

On our cruise back around Thanksgiving there was a piano bar, and this bar was the source of much good times and drunken fun and singing. My brother Michael got on the Piano Whore's e-mail list, despi...
Posted by non corporate rob on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:35:00 PST

If you have to only watch one season of something...

If for whatever reason you can only spare the time/expense to watch one season of a particular show, here are my recommendations (more to come, feel free to add your own): The Office - Season 2Lost - ...
Posted by non corporate rob on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:06:00 PST

Life rule: Always buy girl scout cookies

Today leaving the supermarket, a strategically placed girl scout intercepted me and asked if I wanted to buy girl scout cookies. Now I already guiltily bought sour patch kids, so I didn't want any coo...
Posted by non corporate rob on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:33:00 PST

Should I watch the Saddam hanging?

I have it pulled up on YouTube right now, cause I heard people on the radio today talking about how the hanging's on there. So I start watching it, I see Saddam walking up these stairs, they start to ...
Posted by non corporate rob on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:11:00 PST