Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 31st, 2014 in MainIt’s funny how that carrot-on-a-stick promise of “it’s only a 2 1/2 hour flight from California to Oklahoma” turns into 11 hours after you figure in the drive to the airport, returning the rental car, time spent in the TSA security line and so on. We left our hotel in Pleasant Hill, California at 6:30am this morning, and arrived home at 5:30pm. In the past seven days we visited Disneyland, the Warner Brothers Studio, Rancho Obi-Wan, the Jelly Belly factory, the Sequoia National Forest, Computer History Museum, and Alcatraz/Pier 39, with lots of other little stops and diversions along the… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 28th, 2014 in Main
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 27th, 2014 in MainIt’s the fourth morning of our vacation and I haven’t updated the blog because we haven’t had a lot of downtime yet. Here’s a brief recap of the past three days. I’ll be writing more and posting more pictures when I get home for sure. Last Friday we flew out to California. As you all know by now I am not a big fan of flying but the rum and Cokes in first class make the experience a little more tolerable. Saturday morning, bright and early, we went to Disneyland. It was the first time for all of us. We… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 21st, 2014 in Star WarsEach time a morsel of news related to the new Star Wars films currently in production hits the web, I get asked the same question by people: “Are you looking forward to the new Star Wars films?” In short, I am. I saw the original Star Wars the summer of 1977 shortly before I turned four-years-old, and the other two films on opening day. I may have previously mentioned that my dad took me to see Return of the Jedi opening day (May 25, 1983) the day after I had my tonsils removed. I remember standing in line outside the… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 19th, 2014 in Adventures, PodcastOver the weekend I updated the States! section of the website. If you have not checked it out, it’s a list of every states I have ever visited with lots of pictures and mini-stories. In 2013 I added or updated Missouri, Illinois, Indianapolis, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Toronto (Ontario), Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. In this weekend’s update I updated Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada.Check your state — maybe I’ve been there! Link: robohara.com/states Also last week I posted three new podcast episodes. Of the two for You Don’t Know Flack, one was technical in nature… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 18th, 2014 in Main(Apologies if you got this one twice. I killed my webserver earlier and had to recover this one from the cache.) Look — if you’re going to live in Oklahoma you can do one of two things: deny it, or embrace it. Me, I’m all about embracing and experiencing things, which is how my family and I ended up for a second time at the El Reno GRASCAR Races. My dad, Mason and I have attended the races once before. I told my wife it was “three or four years ago” but after finding this old blog entry I guess… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 15th, 2014 in MainEarlier today for Facebook’s “Throwback Thursday” I posted the following picture with a bit of a tease as to the story behind the photo. I might as well tell the story. My buddy Andy (seen in the picture above) is pretty much the pillar of honesty — always has been, always will be. Most of his stories that involve debauchery also involve me because, let’s face it, Andy was the nice guy and I was the little devil sitting on his shoulder saying things like, “Hey Andy, wouldn’t it be awesome if we stole that fire extinguisher and set it… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 9th, 2014 in MainHere at robohara.com I offer e-mail notifications for whenever I post a new blog entry. You can add and remove yourself from the list, so I rarely get bounced e-mails from the mailing list. Unfortunately, last week, I got one. rogmeister@earthlink.net Error Type: SMTP Remote server (209.86.93.226) issued an error. Mail Server sent: RCPT TO: Remote server replied: 550 rogmeister@earthlink.net…User account is overquota Last week while I was in Vegas, my friend Rogmeister passed away at the age of 61. Online communications have redefined the meaning of the word “friend.” I grew up calling BBSes, so it was not uncommon… (read more)
Posted by RobOHara ( @Commodork) on May 2nd, 2014 in MainI’ve been in Vegas for 12 days now as of this morning. The pace of this class has prevented me from wandering too far into the belly of the Vegas beast, but I have (on three occasions now) had the opportunity to play a slot machine: once at an actual casino, and twice in the vestibule of CVS. It’s always jarring to me to see slot machines outside of casinos. Back home in Oklahoma, that’s the only place you see them. Here in Vegas they’re everywhere including convenient stores and grocery stores. The entry to CVS has a line of… (read more)
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