About
So, you clicked on the About page to find out more about me. I’m flattered and if you are looking to stalk me, then I am excited. I’ve never had a stalker before… oops, wait a minute, I did when I was living in Newburyport. Hey, that should be a post!
I’m not much of one to talk about myself, so here’s what Sock Monkey has to say about this blog:
The OB1og is suitable for children ages 16 to 40. Not a lot of swearage around these parts, but Sean seems to be really enamoured of using words that start with ass these days. The blog was created in April 2006 after working day, night and dreams on building a blog called The Ed Zone for his BFF. It would seem that by encouraging his friend to write, he caught the bug himself. The only difference being Sean can’t write worth a shite (didn’t say I didn’t swear). If you can decipher his first post, Walk This World, then maybe you can figure what he’s doing here because I sure as hell cannot! Best I can tell is he’s trying to get out of some kind of shell and grow or something.
Okay, that went well so let’s see what Sock Monkey has to say about me:
Sean likes to be called OB or OB1, but no one really calls him those names. They instead prefer names like: Slim, Stretch and Scrim (my personal favorite). He lives on the South Shore of Massholeachusetts and doesn’t have a dog because he rents. Thanks to that, I’m not getting eaten like a chew toy. He writes code for a living and thinks any coder that calls themselves a ninja or rockstar are asshats. Scrim recently gave up coffee for some stupid reason and has been remarkably fine about it (update: after 5 weeks off, he’s back on the bean). He listens to a lot of crappy music instead of pure country gold, but at least he likes Gorillaz. Like me, Scrim likes the top down and doors off, but he’s still a comic book geek. He squeezes the toothpaste from the bottom.
Hey, I told him not to call me Scrim! While we are on bathroom etiquette, I also like the TP to waterfall.
You know, SM mentions I can’t write worth a “shite,” and that’s true. I still haven’t figured out how to properly use the semicolon, but I’m sure it is sometimes right on pure accident. I did somehow manage to dupe a college English professor into giving me an A- one semester, but it was in Kansas, so it prolly doesn’t mean much.
Speaking of that place, SM left out my ed-u-ma-cation, so just so you know, I did the 8 year college plan after graduating from Rockland High School. Did my frosh year at Boston University and the next 3 at The Wichita State University. All four of those as an Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering major. It turned out not to be as fun as it sounds, so I came home, took a year off and went back to Bridgewater State College for 2 1/2 years to finish with a degree in MIS.
I didn’t get a Navy ROTC scholarship while at BU, so I had to leave. I wanted to be a pilot, but it was probably for the best as I am likely too tall to fly fighter jets. On a flight back to school in Wichita I got to spend a night in the Chicago O’Hare airport during a blizzard and ended up on my roommate’s flight — he was from Chi-town — back to Wichita the next morning. At BSC, I went on a 3 day and 2 night Vision Quest for my Native American Anthropology class and had some weird, non-substance induced visions I should write about some time. Turns out fasting for that time (well, bread and water allowed) will cause you to get all funked up to go with a killer headache.
Other fun facts: I was almost struck by lightning as a kid, I was almost in a tornado, I have been hit by a car while riding a bike (twice!), I probably should have been struck by lightning another time, I have fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed a car (twice!), been on a plane struck by lightning — Captain: “In case you were all wondering what that was, we just had a lightning strike off the nose of the aircraft, but everything is A-Okay” — and I’m pretty sure I’m still not dead. Oh, and that picture at the top is of me and I am probably like five. Yup, Bad in Plaid with a super Beatle’s mop-top cut!
If you need more stalking information, you can probably troll Flickr for a more recent picture of me or check out last.fm to see what I am listening to right freakin now…
Okay, maybe you’ll be interested in the Changelog or Colophon.
Who isn’t?
Right?
Right?
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