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Rob

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About Me

*** Preface to Myspace users... Myspace sucks! Look me up on Facebook instead!!! ***
Greetings. I have avoided predators and starvation for 30 years and counting. If were a caveman, I'd be like, really old and successful.
According to MySpace I have friends, which I must say came as a surprise to me.
I have a fabulous job in which I design HVAC and plumbing systems for hospitals, laboratories and commerical buildings. Basically this means that I know a whole lot about all the crap inside of buildings that keeps people from being too hot, too cold, burning to death, or drowning in their own refuse. All the stuff you never even think about, you thankless jerks. I know it's hard to imagine, but this is far more boring and more of a pain in the ass than you think it is.
Don't believe me? Know that I have books with tables that list the heat rejection rates in BTUs/hr for various kinds of farm animals. I also know precisely what volume of air should be exhausted per minute from a morgue. I actually had into go into a morgue once to measure something, so my job isn't all that bad. Some dude's liver was on the scale and everything. Rightous.
I live in Baltimore, MD. I have a house that I'm in the process of destroying from the inside out.
I'm married to a wonderful girl named Marisa who is okay with the fact that I play with swords and motorcycles and listen to Death Metal.
By caveman standards, life is actually pretty good now that I think about it.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Tony Randall. That son of a bitch owes me $20.

I'd also like to go back in time and witness Ben Franklin's invention of the Frankenstein. I'd take the place of his hunchbacked assistant, John Adams.

Seriously, I'd like to meet anyone local who rides motorcycles and isn't a squid. I need some riding buddies!

My Blog

This is what goes on in my head every time I run...


Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:41:00 GMT

Fossil record

Our own eras and epochsspan a kind of geologic time.  Old memories of who we were and who we knew in those eras pastare fossils that we can examinewith tools. coldly. empirically.Half buried in stone ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:20:00 GMT

I ran 7 miles the other day...

    It nearly killed me, and I didn't do it in any kind of time, but I did it.  Holy crap. It's nice to know that I can pull 7 miles out of my ass when I'm in about the worst shape...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:58:00 GMT

Quit bitching about the Environment: We're all just along for the ride.

  I'm sick to death with hearing about this great environmental doom that's stalking mankind.  Alaska is melting!  The fish are all full of mercury!  The sun kills you now!&nb...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:46:00 GMT

Yeah, I can do that...

So I could basically watch this all day long... I found it on YouTube. It's an awesome video of champion stunt rider Christian Pfeiffer doing amazing things on a Ducati Monster 1000, followed by amazi...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:00:00 GMT

My Kitchen of Despair and Broken Dreams. And Woe. Gotta have the Woe.

So as anyone who knows me knows, I'm in the process of completely gutting the shit out of my kitchen.  It all started back in July.  Marisa, Josh, Kate and I were hanging out down in Fells o...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:08:00 GMT

I've gone and broken every one of my motorcycle rules...

So I bought a new bike the other week, a shiny red 1997 Honda VFR750. Ta da!  If you're not interested in motorcycles, hit that Back button now.I'd post actual pictures of it, but our digital cam...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:15:00 GMT