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rob

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About Me

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My Interests

Music:

U2, Wilco, Radiohead, Better than Ezra, 2Pac, Sufjan Stevens

Television:

House M.D., The Office, Entourage, Dirt,

Books:

CURRENTLY READING

My Blog

sigh (part 2)

"The problem is not with legal immigrants; they try to assimilate. The problem is the illegal aliens; they are not assimilating," said Bob Rudine, a member of Help Save Herndon.Sounds like something y...
Posted by rob on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:13:00 PST

sigh

"The ultimate goal is to make the commonwealth of Virginia an unwelcome place if you are in this country illegally."-Delegate Jackson H. Miller (R-Manassas), talking about a bill that to strip chariti...
Posted by rob on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:35:00 PST

Election Time

Next week is election Tuesday, and accordingly the Democratic party sent me a sample ballot of how they would like me to vote. Note: I didn't get one from Les Republicains. But I don't know how the De...
Posted by rob on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:25:00 PST

Design blog: 99 ways not to make design

When I was in college, I spent a lot of hours at the studio working on projects. There was a 3 year stretch where I didn't sleep more than 4 hours a night. It sucked. But until today I didn't really k...
Posted by rob on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:45:00 PST

What is graphic design

My mom has no idea what it is that I do exactly for a living. Maybe if I can explain it to myself then she'll have a better chance of explaining it to someone else. So I'm starting a series of blog en...
Posted by rob on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:31:00 PST

baseball

Thanks goodness baseball is almost done. What a boring, pointless, waste of time.
Posted by rob on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:36:00 PST

Noted, without comment.

Was listening to NPR this morning and they were interviewing someone from the Institute of Islamic Political Thought (IIPT), based in Britain. The two points the guy from the IIPT made was that a) the...
Posted by rob on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:51:00 PST

Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war.

It pisses me off that terrorists once again had the audacity to try to attack us. We're not impervious, but we are vigilant. Which is a good thing. I'm glad the grownups took care of shit this time ar...
Posted by rob on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:20:00 PST

Munich

I'm talking about the movie, not the city. And if you haven't seen it and would like to, I go into details about the plot of the movie so you probably should not read on if you intend to watch the mov...
Posted by rob on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:12:00 PST

The Germany Trip-Cultural Differences

So when I was in Austria I met some Canadians who were staying at my hostel. One night we went for drinks at this beer garden ("bier garten" in Austrian) and after the second or third liter of beer (b...
Posted by rob on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:15:00 PST