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Robert

I am here for Friends

About Me

I never like these things because it seems I never say enough. Ah well. I'll try it anyway.I'm 24 now, now two years out of college (I graduated in December of '03). For about a year I worked for the relatively financially troubled seemingly financially God-forsaken United Airlines , but now I'm working at a place that's a clearinghouse for futures, developing webapps (ideally) but instead now I'm also a Database Administrator.I've been married to my wife Jennie since December 4th, 2004, and we went on a honeymoon trip to the Caribbean that was absolutely stellar. You can read more about it at our wedding website .I'll add more to this space as I get to it, like college and stuff, but for right now I think I'm all done. :-)

My Interests

G etting to know God more (always the hard part), computers, but especially Apple computers ... biking, webpages , driving around both aimlessly and for a vacation... and lying around on a couch doing nothing for a while.

I'd like to meet:

G iven that I'm married, I'm not in any mood to start up anything relational outside of friendship. Sorry. :-)

Music:

I t ranges. You'd be better off looking through my iPod for the stuff I listen to the most. But I listen to a lot of Christian artists, plus the strange combination of pop and R&B (I'm no expert, trust me), along with things like the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.

I managed to start getting into Jazz (an unofficial goal of 2005) and now have CDs of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, the Mahadishvnu Orchestra and Duke Ellington. Of those four, I absolutely love Miles Davis the most (with John Coltrane's My Favorite Things running a close second, but all of the CDs are exceptional.

Movies:

The Urilift System


The Urilift is a urinal that rises out of the ground at night. It's pupose to stop people from peeing on the street.Rob's note: Are you freaking serious?

Lyrebird Unbeleivable Jungle Bird Mimics Bird and Human Sounds


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyrebirdWho said nature wasn't cool?

W hat in the world is this category for? My favorite movies? What kinds of movies I watch? Erm... all right... :-) Look at it this way... I loved both Finding Nemo and Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind. Anything halfway intelligent will probably earn my vote.

Honorable mentions: The Thin Red Line, Moulin Rouge, Magnolia, American Beauty. Links to movies may come later.

Best movies for 2005: Pride and Prejudice (I admit it! Don't taunt me!), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, March of the Penguins, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.


2005 To See Movies: Duma, The Chronicles of Narnia, Howl's Moving Castle, King Kong, Murderball, Rent, Wallace and Grommit. Told you I'd watch about anything.

Television:

T he TV is currently dead, so 'til we set up a new one, this section will remain intentionally blank.

Books:

A nything by C.S. Lewis, at this point, is something I'm interested in. Specific titles? The Screwtape Letters was my most recent read; the one before that, Til We Have Faces, which is a wonderful rebranding of the greek mythology of Cupid and Eros. Then of course there's Mere Christianity, which is a series of short writings about aspects of the Christian life, and all seven volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a children's story with some fairly obvious parallels, but still the best books I have read that were clearly aimed at that age group, short of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.I did skip out on The Silmarillion, though... it's like reading a fictionalized version of the Old Testament, which, if I were to be perfectly frank with God, I would say contains great practical applications. You just have to look for it. Hard.

Heroes:

N ext to God? Sheesh. That's a tough one... Pastor Jon, I suppose. Anyone and everyone on the frontlines and back offices of the fight for social justice. :-) By the way, that's a wonderful topic to start discussions about... especially in 21st century America...

My Blog

Someday the sucking will end. :-)

(This note is written entirely in humor and not in bitterness. Not yet, anyway.)So I'm part of the softball team "Living Hope Church", and we're four games into our season, and it looks like it's goin...
Posted by Robert on Sat, 19 May 2007 08:46:00 PST

From one service to another...

My profile will now be up-to-date at Facebook. As soon as I get access to [email protected] again. Sigh.
Posted by Robert on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:55:00 PST

Lesson from movies #3,941

Always beware of Asians on motorcycles.
Posted by Robert on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:42:00 PST

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"No Bravery"James Blunt There are children standing here, Arms outstretched into the sky, Tears drying on their face. He has been here. Brothers lie in shallow graves. Fathers lost without a trace. A...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:38:00 PST

Funny enough to risk copyright violation

Copyright belongs to Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle, http://www.chron.com/nick...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:38:00 PST

Brrr.

Night of 2/3: -7.6 degreesNight of 2/4: -12.3 degreesNight of 2/5: -8.3 degreesNight of 2/6: -3.6 degreesI've lived here a long time, but this is COLD!
Posted by Robert on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:58:00 PST

Life without digital cable, week 1

It's better than I thought it would be. =)
Posted by Robert on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:43:00 PST

I'm Colin Powell!

The moderate of moderates. I'm not surprised. :-)http://franz.org/quiz.htm
Posted by Robert on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:34:00 PST

You know you're working too much when...

You know someone's been thinking about work too much when you see someone tried to trade online on December 25th.Holidays indeed.Happy new year!
Posted by Robert on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:01:00 PST

On the way things should be...

(11:41:56 AM) Jennie: we should just get it all out on the table(11:42:02 AM) Jennie: instead of debates and campaign promises(11:43:33 AM) Jennie: GW could've just said "Look. The oil companies...
Posted by Robert on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:00:00 PST