I’ve been a bit lax (ha!) in keeping up the blog lately. My apologies for withholding from you.
As mentioned previously, the saving the world bit is on the tiring side, and the writing stuff is on the high energy side, and seldom did the ‘twain meet.
When one is pouring all of one’s emotional energy into [...]
July 14, 2009
Categories: Int Poly, Poli-Fi, Sci-Fi, advice, archaic interfaces, business, government, history, internet, pirate, robot, us . Tags: Arrested Development, Evolution of Mankind, Healthcare Reform, Hulu, Meth Capital of Alaska, Revolution, Sarah Palin, Stephen Hawking, True Blood, Universal Healthcare . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
So I finally finished reading Andrew Sullivan’s piece on “Why I Blog” (available here, as a four page blog post). He hits the nail on the head on why I’m not a blogger with this paragraph (and a half).
If all this sounds postmodern, that’s because it is. And blogging suffers from the same flaws as [...]
February 26, 2009
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, curious, internet, media, upgrade . Tags: Andrew Sullivan, Postmodernism, Why I Blog, Why Im not a Blogger . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
Rules:
Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
Done in the third [...]
February 13, 2009
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Doh, My World, archaic interfaces, bullshit, curious, gaming, government, internet, media, myth, nerd, random, stupid . Tags: 25 tags, 25 things, computers., consciousness, crime, Eagle Scout, false, feelings, Fight Club, fourth person, god, honesty, lying, Moral Relativism, politics, POMA, porn, religion, Rule #1, self-referential loops, short proof for the existence of evil, simon, third person, top, trolling, true . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
For those that haven’t had the pleasure, “Boom Blox” is one of the funner games I’ve played on the Wii.
Here is a 2d version, called “Totem Destroyer 2″, of one of the games in that game, kinda, on the web for free.
And check out “Boom Blox,” it’s a blast.
February 11, 2009
Categories: gaming, internet . Tags: boom blox, totem destroyer 2 . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 3 Comments
So I went to my favorite pub/sports pub to do some liveblogging for the Superbowl.
As football is about as close as I come to organized religion, the Superbowl is a big day for me. A Super Party, if you well. I had picked my location in the bar early and spent most of the day [...]
February 2, 2009
Categories: Doh, Football, advice, art, business, cool, funny, game review, internet, media, performance, pirate, robot, sad, sport, stupid, tech . Tags: American Honey, Frankies Bar and Grill, Liveblogging, Some Other Stuff, Superbowl, Superbowl 43, Superbowl Commercials, The Glass is Half Full . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 1 Comment
So I’ve had enough people read some of my book to realize a couple things.
First, pretty much everyone who reads it says that I’m a quote “good writer.” Thanks, everyone. Really. It’s hard to tell sometimes and get honest feedback. I had ONE professor in college (a Vietnam vet who taught a class on media [...]
February 1, 2009
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Examples of Work, Mash-up, advice, art, business, cool, curious, drugs, gaming, history, internet, media, myth, nerd, ninja, pirate, religion, robot, tech . Tags: Ludwig Wittgenstien, Mind Fuck, Mindfuck, writing with dynamite . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 2 Comments
This is a pretty good example of what my book is like…my intellectual ramblings divided by popular culture references. The book is also my philosophy “dissertation”. However, unlike most phi-disses, this one was created to be understood by another with the capacity to appreciate simple culture, and not necessarily someone who [...]
January 6, 2009
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Doh, Football, Poli-Fi, President 08, advice, art, bullshit, business, government, internet, iraq, media, money, nerd, oil, terror, us, war . Tags: Enron, Football, Madoff, Money Scales, Musical Scales, No Blood for Oil, Polite Dance Song, Pyramid Schemes, The Bird and the Bee, There Will Be Blood, war . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
As mentioned a little while back, I am putting the blog on hold and writing a book.
O.k. I didn’t do such a good job of that (as the latest posts can testify) but that hasn’t stopped the book from coming along nicely.
They can read be read here.
I’d love to get some feedback on what I’ve [...]
December 18, 2008
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Doh, Examples of Work, Int Poly, My World, Poli-Fi, Sci-Fi, Sci-Non-Fi, advice, africa, art, asia, business, curious, drugs, environment, europe, friends, funny, gaming, government, history, iPhone, internet, iraq, latin, media, middle east, money, myth, nerd, ninja, oil, pirate, random, religion, robot, sad, sex, tech, terror, us, war . Tags: Add new tag, Like a Thief in the Night, Mathematical and Psychological Proof of God, Philosophical Meanderings, Robot Pirate Ninja: The Book, Some nutjob hearing voices, The First Book . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 3 Comments
I can’t believe I have to do this. I was reading an interview that Rick Warren (of the Purpose Driven Life) gave and was struck by something he wrote. So I kept reading the interview and was struck by a few other silly things he said.
Look, I’ve got nothing against Rick Warren personally. From what [...]
December 18, 2008
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Poli-Fi, advice, bullshit, government, history, internet, media, myth, religion, us . Tags: Abortion, Blatant Contradictions, false prophets, Gay Marriage, god, Holocaust, Jack Welch, Jr, Malcolm Gladwell, Martin Luther King, Mathew 7:15-23, Millionaires, Mother Teresa, Orange County, Rick Warren, Rupert Murdoch, Satan, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, The Bible . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 1 Comment
This is a really sad day. Not that Steve is dead yet, but having some personal history and knowledge of pancreatic cancer, it’s not a good sign that he isn’t speaking at Macworld.
One of the first computers I ever used was one he (and his nerd buddy, Steve Wozniak) designed and sold. It was a [...]
December 17, 2008
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, archaic interfaces, art, business, cool, friends, iPhone, internet, media, money, myth, nerd, religion, sad, tech, us . Tags: apple, Apple Cancels Christmas, Jim Goldman, Macworld, Pancreatic Cancer, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, The Death of a Legend . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
In a somber note, I would like to extend my condolences to all first parties involved.
This is a sad situation about an unfortunate little girl. Even more sadly, the emotional aspects of this case seem to have overwhelmed the logical ones, and put us in a very curious legal place.
And by “us” I’m talking about [...]
November 27, 2008
Categories: Doh, bullshit, curious, government, internet, media, nerd, ninja, pirate, us . Tags: 9th Disctrict, Corporate America, Cyber Bullying, Cyberbullying, Josh Evans, Lori Drew, Megan Meier, Microsoft, myspace, MySpace Suicide, Tina Meier . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 1 Comment
