Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 28th, 2014 in MainYears before I registered robohara.com, I used a free forwarding service with the address of http://welcome.to/theoharas. The earliest working snapshot the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has of the site is from November, 2001. Back then, before WordPress, I ran my own “blog” software (“blog” was barely a word in 2000) that I had written in ASP and later converted to PHP. It certainly wasn’t as fancy or robust as WordPress — in fact, all it really allowed me to do was update my webpage remotely by inserting entries into the top of a text file that was displayed on the… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 25th, 2014 in MainTwo feet to my right is a toy Gizmo figure (from the movie Gremlins), standing on top of a model of Speed Racer’s car (the Mach 5), which itself sits next to a giant pile of unopened Star Wars Pez dispensers. On my left is a USB powered lightsaber, a toy Minotaur, a taco-shaped pouch for storing my USB thumb drives, and a boxed copy of Win, Lose, or Draw for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I have a room in my house dedicated to Star Wars toys, a bubble gum vending machine, a working payphone, and once bought a convertible… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 21st, 2014 in LoveThyShelfWhenever I begin a new project I like to write a “mission statement” for the purpose of setting the scope of the project. Likewise, whenever I end a project, I like to document that as well. This posts marks the end of a project: LoveThyShelf.com. I registered LoveThyShelf.com back in 2011. The following is from my initial post on that site: As a collector of many things, storing and displaying those things has been an issue for much of my life. Back when I was in mid-high, my parents owned and ran a small computer store. Shortly after the store… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 21st, 2014 in MainLast November marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. I’ve been to Dealey Plaza once or twice before just to walk around the grassy knoll but had never been inside the Sixth Floor Museum. For something to do over our past three day weekend, Susan purchased tickets to the museum for the four of us and so that’s what we did last Sunday. The (former) Texas School Book Depository located at 411 Elm Street in Dallas, Texas is about as nondescript of a building as you could build. It’s square and orange… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 21st, 2014 in LoveThyShelfThe following shelves, created by Digital Press forum member PSony, utilize a combination of track/brackets and metal L-shaped brackets for support. The white track/brackets, L-shaped brackets, and white laminate wood can all be found at most home improvement locations. While PSony uses his shelves for video games, these could obviously be adjusted to store just about anything.
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 20th, 2014 in Adventures, FoodOver the weekend, Susan, the kids and I drove down to Dallas, Texas. A little over halfway there the kids were getting hungry for lunch and I told Susan I knew of a nearby restaurant named MG’s. MG’s is hard to miss as they have the back half of an MG mounted to the front of the building, and the front half mounted over the front counter. I pulled up the address and a few minutes later we arrived. Unfortunately it looks like MG’s closed some time ago, but in its place we found the Burger Time Machine. With a… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 5th, 2014 in MainTo date I have spent 17 1/2 of the past 19 work years sitting in cubicles, the exception to this being the 18 months I worked in Spokane, Washington. The very nice people there in Spokane gave me my own office, complete with a door and a name plate and everything. I was 23 years old at the time and I assumed they had given me an an office because I was so important. In retrospect I realize it was more like Goonies, in which the Fratellis kept Sloth chained up in the basement out of the eye of the… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on January 2nd, 2014 in MainThe first time I took Mason rollerskating by himself was in September of 2006, a few months before his fifth birthday. Susan wasn’t feeling well that day and did not go to the skating rink with us. I figured it would be a nice, stress-free trip out of the house for the two of us. Mason fell that day and hit his elbow really hard. He screamed and screamed and said he couldn’t move his arm or feel his fingers. According to my blog entry from that day, after an ice pack was applied, he felt much better. That’s the… (read more)
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