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Robert K S

Makeup and stickers and ponies and MySpace.com!

About Me

robertks.com Blog and photos and stuff. j-archive.com Cache of trivia. User:Robert K S at Wikipedia, which is even more addictive than MySpace if you're a know-it-all wannabe. robertks.stumbleupon.com Intriguing, hilarious, and/or titillating items I've stumbled upon.

My Interests

Yoga, myths/dreams/psychology, trivia.

I'd like to meet:

Charlie the Unicorn or Pokey the Penguin .

Movies:

The Blues Brothers, The Empire Strikes Back

Television:

Lost, ER, Jeopardy!, Family Guy

Books:

I can unreservedly recommend the Frank Capra autobiography The Name Above the Title and the best book written about the Beatles, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald.

Heroes:


This girl looks like me.

My Blog

Guide to French politics

Having 3 AM panic attacks?  Anxiety getting the better of you during your workday?  Feeling a little worried all over, all the time?  If not, you should be: the fate of the world the Eu...
Posted by Robert K S on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:10:00 PST

Guide to Paris public transportation

Getting around in Paris is safe, economical, and fun!  Just follow these easy steps. For short trips around town, leave your car at home (as if you could park it anywhere) and forget those snooty...
Posted by Robert K S on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:53:00 PST

A bunch of big flakes, they are

It rarely snows in Paris, and snow has only covered the ground a few times in the memory of the present generation, but right now I'm seeing the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen outside my win...
Posted by Robert K S on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:17:00 PST

Instructions for time travel

Perhaps you sometimes wish you could unmake all those mistakes you made.  If only you could go back to the third grade again.  I've found a surefire way to do so, but in my case, to repeat&n...
Posted by Robert K S on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:02:00 PST

I em yor freind

Last night I found myself up in the attic, helping Pop put up the Christmas claptrap, and take down some piles of decades-old papers he was throwing out, like stacks of resumes he made the last time h...
Posted by Robert K S on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:49:00 PST

It's like living inside of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode for 36 hours

CWRU just published their schedule for the 32nd annual Science Fiction Marathon.  If you've never been, words are difficult to describe how awesome this annual event is. Last year attendance...
Posted by Robert K S on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:41:00 PST

Ken 'n' Fritz @ Googleplex

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4533191745399475378 Good stuff.
Posted by Robert K S on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:34:00 PST

Expat Living Singapore

Featured articles from this fine periodical publication: - How to keep Caucasian hair from frizzing (relaxers, not rebonders!)- How to buy a "bespoke" (custom tailored) suit, and what makes them worth...
Posted by Robert K S on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:52:00 PST

What's the old joke about the definition of a Republican?

When I was, oh, 13 or 14, a dude stole my bike.  I had set it against the concrete garbage can outside Fulton Foods while I went inside to buy four tasty Little Debbie Fudge Rounds.  At $0.2...
Posted by Robert K S on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:27:00 PST

Where, oh where is my little lost blog?

Yesterday I posted a blog about how I found a lost dog with no ID tag and tracked down his owner.  But it didn't go up.  Boo.
Posted by Robert K S on Mon, 29 May 2006 08:09:00 PST