December 2007
It started out as, "we both need to get laid" ...
Kim: I have not been laid in like....48 hours
Rob: 48?!@?@
Rob: fuck u
Rob: lol
Kim: LoL
Kim: I'm just kidding I need to not get laid after the weekend I had
Kim: I'm pretty sure my vagina is going to fall out
Rob: wow
Rob: haha
Rob: I wanna make someone's vagina fall out
Kim: LoL
Rob: in the figurative sense
Kim: I told Montana, "We can't do it anymore, it actually really hurts to pee"
Rob: wow
Kim: And like, I shit you not, my labia majora were SWOLLEN
Kim: But he seemed to take that as "MOAR"
Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy
Of the new albums I purchased this Christmas, A Fine Frenzy was quite the find. The sound is one that agrees very well with my tastes, yet doesn’t have a certain adjective that I can tie to it. It is a very calm, vocal album. Alison Sudol sings to a clean and yes, not to be too simple in vocabulary, but pretty accompaniment. The most common is piano, but she’s got the whole typical...
A personal message
Erin txt: ” R we really done 4 good? “ Thoughts? I responded to her with (ad lib, since I don’t remember): Yeah. I think so. I miss you sometimes, and remember how much I love you, but it’s soon followed by how things went bad and then I have a different mindset. -msg part2: I don’t think I could go back and have things be normal. ————-...
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"Computer Love" ~ Kraftwerk
I need a data date…. data date…. Ah, classic! And to make this less illegal I was going to post a link for the purchase of said song, but instead I found their website where you can listen to most of their songs (that I know of) for free. http://www.kraftwerk.com/ Enjoy your old skool German techno :)
WatchMy thoughts on sunlight after a few days of going w/o…
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“Celery isn’t watery at all”
– Nick
When stuff crashes in OS X
I’m left baffled! I basically can’t use Adium anymore because of the crashing. Ever since I got leopard it did that. Now I have a new hard drive and fresh install of 10.5.1 and still crashes occur. Honestly, I had only been using iChat for the longest time, then decided to get Adium and was painfully reminded why I didn’t use it. Basically occurs if I’m talking to someone...
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The Grades Roll In:
I skimmed this with only one eye open… afraid to find the classes that dropped below a C. With my effort and difficulty of classes this semester, I started hoping for Cs… that’s a new thing for me. But something not new is doing better than expected: Philosophy of Mind: A- Educational Psychology: A- Advanced Spanish Grammar: A- Spanish Civilization and Culture (thought I was...
Response to rant on the TGI Friday's menu
Here’s the article: http://www.mikerapin.com/blog/2007/12/19/typography-and-design-on-a-dining-menu/ I just wanted to say that it’s too bad there’s no picture of the menu to follow along with. Now I really want to see it. I went to their site to see if I could find it, and couldn’t. I realized though, that maybe they spent all of their ‘design’ budget on the...
An inappropriate Mac ad:
Allie: scrapetorrent is trying to give me viruses
Rob: lol
Allie: no really
Allie: wtf
Allie: why
Rob: uh i dunno... i usually just get a popup
Rob: cuz they're poor
Allie: i got a popup
Allie: and then almost a virus
Rob: ah
Rob: well i guess i don't notice
Rob: cuz i have a mac
Rob: and we don't get those things
Allie: whatever mac gay ass
Rob: clean and aesthetic gay ass...
Rob: oh and did i mention ease of use?
Rob: haha... that's getting dirty
Allie: you
Allie: SUCK
Itsy-bitsy pink bikini gets serviceman jail
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore national serviceman who sashayed into a lift early one morning wearing only a pink bikini has been handed a day’s jail and a S$11,000 ($7,529) fine by a court in the city-state, a newspaper said on Tuesday. Tan Wen Zhong, 21, admitted to five charges, including “outraging the modesty” of the woman who shared the lift with him and...
Some Ambience by Rob
Played around in GarageBand for a bit… I didn’t really come up with a ‘song’ but after exploring some of the instruments I had, I ended up with a little ambient piece. Not amazing, but I kinda like it :) Hope you do too. Feel free to steal it. If anyone wants the mp3 just mention it in a comment. ~Rob
Rob's (shitty) book thus far
Well… nothing special… but I felt like getting it out loud instead of just on the screen, so I made a recording of what I have so far with this spontaneous ‘book’ thing. ~ Rob
Watch*sigh* Converted to new file type and FINALLY got it to work. Okay… enjoy the last 8 seconds haha…
Nipon = Japan (in japanese)
Rob: hehe, my socks say “HEAD” on them...
Kim: Yeah well I'm not wearing a bra 'cause I just got out of the shower but I realized I had to go get a soda and KTB and Jon are both out in the living room so I had to go out there with a towel wrapped around me like I was cold and it was prolly totes obvious I was just covering up my pointy boobs
Rob: haha, pointy boobs
Kim: Yeah it's totally bad right now 'cause getting out of shower + freezing cold air = DOUBLE NIPON
Kim: Also, I am eating pita mmmm
Rob: I just had a shower too, but no japan here...
Kim: LoL
Kim: I got that yessss
WatchAlright everyone… I know it’s kind of boring, but it’s just a means of me being able to say “hello” to you and let you know what I’m up to: not much.
Dialogue on virtual gift-giving w/ The Macinjosh
Josh: what is with these online gifts? like with facebook and now twitter?
Josh: it's crazy
Rob: that way people don’t have to spend money i guess haha
Josh: maybe i dunno
Rob: are you anti-virtual gifts?
Josh: kind of
Josh: it's kind of stupid
Rob: I guess so. Even though I don't receive anything, if I get one on facebook at least I think, oh, that person was thinking about me.
Josh: i dunno i suppose.
Rob: Well what do you have against it, Scrooge?
Josh: i don't know i just don't see what the big deal is really. i get these virtual gifts and I'm just kinda like "ok...what the hell do i do with this??"
Rob: I don't think of what to do with it... I just think, oh cool, so-and-so wanted to 'send' this to me... I don't know. They're nothing great of course, being intangible, but they're nothing bad (to me).
Josh: I know i just...eh...it's just more stuff to waste time on i guess, and i'd rather just be communicating with people by sending messages or something like that
Josh: where there's something more substantial
“I destroy Kirkegaard with lasers.”
– A girl wrote that on her profile page for that nice web2.0 dating site I waste time on
One of those 'true' quiz results.
The Boy Next Door Random Gentle Love Dreamer (RGLD) Kind, yearning, playful, you are The Boy Next Door. You’re looking for real Love, a lot like girls do. It might not be manly, but it’s sweet. We think the next three years will be very exciting and fruitful ones for you. Your spontaneous, creative side makes you a charming date, and we think you have a horny side just...
“You’re fuckin’ WEIRD!”
– @Mikerapin - best recent compliment I’ve received
Sodapop
I think it was the summer before sixth grade that I went to Huntsville, Alabama for aviation camp with a friend. Yeah the camp was awesome, we learned the basics of flying jets, played in sims, did some of the more ‘fun’ air force training stuff…. but it was real, FUCKIN hot there. A group of the campers were hanging out in some pavillion outdoors while a counselor was talking...
Music - Thoughts (edit:12/11/07)
I like doing this. Maybe I’ll keep editing and adding to the list. It might be interesting (to me) when it gets longer. Song/Artist -makes me think of - ‘memory’/’concept’ Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dancing with Erin in that amazing black dress, being awkward, but so happy Led Zeppelin - Driving along Orchard Lake, looking out the window. It’s early summer and...
Feature request:
You’re driving home (walking home) while listening to your iPod. You walk in with your headphones in your ear until you get to your computer. You plug in the serial connecter from your mac to your iPod, the music stops. Take out the headphones, grab your apple remote and (or go to iTunes) and hit play. Your music continues where you left off. Yes, you can do that with podcasts sort of. It...
Something surfaces...
Rob: So how is life for you?
Erin: I donno
Erin: confusing
Rob: you didn't seem too happy on ur facebook status
Rob: how was your senior show
Erin: i like a guy who is still kinda wanting his x
Erin: it was great
Rob: i was kind of curious to see what the Camille songs looked like
Erin: thanks for coming?
Rob: oh, so that's basically how I was with Jacoba
Rob: I wasn't even here this weekend
Rob: sorry
Erin: where were u?
Rob: at home
Erin: Y?
Rob: allergy shot
Rob: i woulda felt weird about going i think
Rob: anyways
Erin: ok
Rob: i didn't want to like, run into your family
Erin: ok
Rob: sorry
Rob: Has the guy admitted he wants to be with his ex? or is it the sort of thing where he's being single, but you can tell he wants his ex
Erin: I donno what he wants
Rob: Rough.
Rob: Well I guess just remind yourself not to take anything too far until you get an idea of where he's going
Erin: guess I donno what I want either though
Rob: oh
Rob: I think I live with illusions of knowing what I want
Erin: can't believe we r done
Erin: still beating myself up about that
Rob: It's pretty crazy yeah
Rob: we were going to a movie saturday night
Rob: and my mom said she missed you
Rob: and i realized yeah, it's weird, it's been so long
Rob: sort of like when my brother had this one girlfriend for like 4 years
Erin: if it counts for anything now. . u were they greatest thing that ever happened to me. i donno if i will ever forgive myself.
Rob: Of course it does. And I grew a lot from our relationship. Just because something happened doesn't mean it was meaningless
Erin: yeah but nothing should have ever happened.
Rob: Yeah, well I still find that part just... well, it's still surprising because it's so out of place
Rob: I thought I had everything I wanted and then out of nowhere you started communicating that you hadn't been honest in the past and that you weren't really happy and such and such
Rob: things weren't as great as they seemed I guess
Erin: i donno why i even thought that
Rob: I don't think you should beat yourself up still about what happened though. It's unfortunate, but maybe it was necessary? Instead of going through the in-between crap of not being sure if we were happy together anymore. (honestly since that night at blue lake, I was sad and clinging on to the relationship i loved, but i was never sure if you were happy past that point)
Erin: i think i just got really depressed and lonely and u were not there for me
Rob: I'm sorry I wasn't
Rob: I don't know why I wasn't. I'm sure I wanted to be.
Rob: It killed me when you wanted to be alone and all I wanted to do was be with you
Rob: It's kind of crazy how I ended up going through a mini-repeat of all of this with Jacoba
Rob: I wonder how that happened
Erin: didn't you see how depressed I was and how me being alone was not healthy
Rob: Yeah. Remember your explanation at Blue Lake to me? About how I've always been there for you during the hard times in your life, and you realized that you finally needed to try and deal with things on your own. I wanted to be there for you like I was used to doing. Of course I wanted to comfort you when you were sad! But didn't you know that I suffered NOT being there for you? I cried at night and felt frustrated during the day because I saw you in pain but because you said you needed and it would be best for you, I did what I could to let you have that and not be there for you.
Erin: but i could not handle it on my own
Erin: that's what i found out
Erin: and then i wanted u to come save me but was to weak to ask for help
Rob: I guess I tried to not be selfish and give you what you said you wanted. It's kind of a fine line to walk. I didn't know when to step in... and if I did, I felt like I would risk you breaking up with me. Our relationship was already put on 'hold' as you asked for this away time, and I didn't want to it to turn into something where you thought I wasn't respecting what you wanted to do and that I didn't understand
Rob: You already confessed to me something crazy, about having deliberately acted different in the past... I was kind of in a messed up state at that time too you know. It was hard for me to judge what to do with you
Rob: i was basically scared of losing everything i loved that i just tried to do whatever you told me
Erin: yea... I did not know what to do with me
Rob: I even said I'd give up my job to follow you around since you said you'd be moving every few months or year
Rob: obviously I cared
Erin: i know
Erin: i am just an idiot
Rob: Well for some reason you were in an extreme emotional state and that changes you too
Rob: I told you that I had already found myself. But if finding who you really are means being able to make yourself happy then I don't know if I really have.
Rob: Maybe what I meant was that I have been alone before and I dealt with it.
Erin: yeah
Erin: who knows
Erin: I need to sleep. i have an exam at 8
Rob: ok
Rob: night
Another "bloggish" post
Okay, so I decided to be honest and give an update on where I am with this mental drama. Hard to explain, and given what I’m about to say, I doubt it will be believed, but the way I feel right now is that I don’t hope or really even *want* a relationship with this girl. That at least is good, right? I’m starting to move on. The only thing that is still ‘tugging’ at...
“I don’t get this.”
– Professor Loeffler (Philosophy of mind and consciousness)
My Philosophy Professor == amazing, check this...
Rob Writes:
Professor Loeffler,
I encountered much more difficulty than I expected in writing this last paper. To make a long excuse shorter, while working on it, I stayed up all night on Monday but fell asleep by morning. I woke up much later than I expected and finished it on Tuesday. I see that your office hours are only Tuesday and Thursday, but I will drop it off at your office this afternoon. I'm sorry that it is a day late, this semester has been very challenging in many ways, but at the least, I completed it and I hope that I can still receive some credit for it.
- Rob Brogan
Prof Writes:
No big deal, Rob. Of course you will receive credit for it. See you tomorrow morning.
Best,
R
Nick was right when he said I needed a real blog
Yeah, this isn’t interesting media, just me, about to spew some things out. Writing must be my method of coping. When I can’t understand what the hell is going on in my head, I put it in words. If it’s in words, then the thoughts become things, objects, and well… we can deal with objects. Maybe. Instead of trying to form this into something coherent, I’m just going to...
Jan 28, 2007 (old journal entry)
So I opened up a mostly empty journal that I have and found the first and only entry on there. I was shocked by my writing style. I understand I write in an odd mood when I feel it’s something formal, like an essay for school, but this kind of shows me that even my near stream-of-consciousness has become so as well. Hard to make sense of it unless you remember what you were talking about...