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J. Robert Optimus Prime

I am here for Friends

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Neither your band, your Big Truck Appreciation community or your webcam.

Music:

Taco. On repeat. All day.

Movies:

Restricting myself to only my favorites: Heat, The Machinist, Memento, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Batman Begins, Robocop, Chinatown, and anything about how horrible the human condition is. A cheery film buff, if ever there was one.

Television:

I lead a life blissfully free from cable television, so I restrict myself to what I can get from Netflix and download off the interblag. Such cases of either would be Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, Futurama, Oz, The Venture Brothers, Prison Break, Red Dwarf, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and a handful of others.

Books:

Authors: Terry Pratchett, Kurt Vonnegut, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Irvin Yalom, J.R.R. Tolkein, Richard Feynman, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Gaius Julius Caesar, Douglas Adams, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Saul Bellow, Milan Kundera, etc. etc.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, existential philosophy and psychotherapy, Roman/ancient Mediterranean history, Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history, physics, philosophical fiction, really bloody comic books, etc. etc.

Heroes:

Generally speaking, the meatball marinara from Potbelly is probably my favorite.

My Blog

Goals

I can't name many things more frustrating than asking yourself, "What do I want out of life?" and the only reply you can think to give yourself is "Not this." The more people you see who stick themsel...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:39:00 PST

Done.

At long last, I think I've reached a critical mass of wholesale disgust towards the online medium of communication. Taking a walk down memory lane will quickly remind me that I've indulged in some pre...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:12:00 PST

Altruism and Obligatory Actions

It's been awhile since I've posted a smartypants lecture! I am a bit rusty, so bear with me.   Altruism and Obligatory Actions ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:offic...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:41:00 PST

^_^

lulz, nevermind
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:37:00 PST

Looptopia = suck.

I had a sneaking suspicion that Looptopia was in trouble when I noted that the website was pretty much continually displaying a "Service Unavailable" page, which quietly suggests that they had not pre...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Sat, 12 May 2007 09:30:00 PST

Changes!

After the destruction visited upon my physiology by the rampant binge drinking of last Thursday through Saturday, the inevitable "WHAT HAVE I DONE" quasi-epiphanic self-evaluation has brought me to th...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:42:00 PST

A terrifying thought

I have had a terrible thought. Almost Twilight Zone-esque. What if, suddenly, all of those chain emails/bulletins/etc that you ignored suddenly came true? Think about it. All of those emails you recei...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:26:00 PST

The hand that holds the gun

This is the only thing I really feel like addressing in regards to the Virginia Tech shooting, which I just sent to the editorial department at the Trib:Much has already been said in regards to the Vi...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:31:00 PST

My grand fun with our Socialist neighbors to the north

Okay, my boss is not at work today for some reason, and I'm already done catching up, so I guess it's time to take a stab at a COMA recap. This will be broken down by day for your viewing pleasure. FR...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:34:00 PST

Your scene sucks

For some reason, something has been on my mind a hell of a lot lately that honestly probably shouldn't even be occupying that much of my attention. That thing happens to be this big, silly scene of ou...
Posted by J. Robert Optimus Prime on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:47:00 PST