A Bit Conspicuous

I decided to switch my blog over to http://paulbrobst.com.

If you are one of my five readers, switch over your RSS!

This is one of the more surreal videos I have seen in awhile. The bunny seems so innocent, which makes the melting feel gruesome. Add in the extremely peaceful music and there is a lot of cognitive dissonance.

So I just got back from dropping off some of my old computer stuff at Goodwill.

It was not the experience I expected.  I thought maybe I would get a thank you.

What I did not expect was to be berated after hesitating when I was told to just throw my 80 pound CRT monitor into the bin.

“They pull them all apart and just recycle them”, they said.

“But it still works fine”, I said.

“So?  No one uses those old dinosaurs anymore, and I’m not going to be the one pulling that heavy thing out of the bin either.”

Next time I’ll just give my stuff away on Craigslist.  Hopefully then it will actually get some more use, which I thought was the whole point of Goodwill in the first place.

Ed forced me to do this typing test. The way they do scrolling is infuriating though. During the last 10 seconds it scrolled the line I was typing off the top of the page.

Here’s my results:

Number of words typed: 245
Test duration: 3 min
Speed: 81.6 words/min. (408 keystrokes/min.)
Error penalty: 0
Accuracy: 100.0%

Take that Ed!

My faithful computer of five years died a horrible death last week. I’ve tried all I can and it still won’t even post bios. A dead motherboard or CPU on a five year old computer means only one thing.

Time for an upgrade!

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A statement of purpose seems to be a good place to start.

I’ve had other blogs that have come and gone, we will see if this one sticks.

I won’t use a pseudonym. Partly because anonymity is only surface deep when it comes to the web, but mostly because I don’t think it is needed. There are many Pauls out there. Even so, tracking me down specifically wouldn’t be a difficult exercise.

As far as content goes, I’m unsure as to what this space will be used for. Will it be a personal blog? Will I talk about my AI and video game interests? Will I just post pictures of my cats and girlfriend? I choose to do as I tend to, and leave my options open. Flexibility is key and I will write posts as they hit me.

To give a taste of what is to come: I think my first real post will be about socks.