What the holy bejeeezus are you doing here? Are you insane?? Oh, no... wait a minute... sorry... that's MY department!
No, wait, if I know I'm insane, then I'm not, right? Damn! Now
I'm totally confused! Flibbertygibbet!
Me,
in a previous incarnation.
So, now that you've somehow stumbled in here, take a look around
at this dubious documentation of my existence, or at least of some aspects
thereof...
So, so many
have asked, "why 'Dr. Bob'?" Well, now the true tale can finally be told:
Way back in the day, around the time I became the resident "computer
doctor" at Jacoby & Meyers in Manhattan, my good buddy,
Rich Neimand (who is half-responsible for
LawThang™), acknowledging my wont
for naming everything in my life
"Bob", dubbed me Dr. Bob
— and it
stuck. Some people don't know me by any other name.
Still others have asked, "but what about this Nelg deal
— whassup with that?" To them
I say, it's all in how you look at things. I am nelg and I am glen the
way bob is bob and god is dog. WAY back in the day (we're talking 40+
years ago), my bud Mark Katz and I
dubbed each other our first names backward. Kram, my friend, some things
never change.
FLASH: it has come to my attention that there is way more to Nelg than I originally
imagined! This Nelg is not the only Nelg (by a long shot! I
guess I'm not all that original — it seems lots of other
"Glens" have
seen their name in a mirror). Nor is Nelg ONLY Nelg
— it is a surprisingly diverse thing: it's an acronym for such things as a
mouse genome, a
type of galaxy,
near eastern languages, a "loose knit"
group of fabric
aficionados, an organization that supports "locums,"
an EPA Regulatory
Process, some kind of
database code indicating that a "balance type" is "not eligible"
(somehow appropriate in this context), an
electron/photon variable (number of electrons at generator level),
Nebraska's Early Learning Guidelines, and so on.
Nelg is also the word "plough"
in the Kota Language. And then, there's the palindromic "Glenelg," which
is the name of at least 3 towns in the world:
Scotland,
Maryland, USA,
and an actual "shire" in
Australia; and a
horse. For more, see my list of links to
All Things Nelg
on the net.
Benjamin Finn is the light of
my life. He has his own section of my design (click
here to see that) and now, he has his very own website,
which you can see by clicking here! Also
available is our first stop-motion animated adventure
—
click here to
see that! (Re-play at least once for full effect!)
If it's more information you crave (who knows? you could
be weird enough to want to!), check out other, relevant stuff about and/or related to ME:
View the pics commemorating the
Big Five-Oh Celebration at Peter & Isabel's Colorado Retreat
Visit www.aclu-sc.org --
website of the ACLU of Southern California, where I am "the computer
guy." While there, take a look at all the incredible good stuff we
do, and why I have forsaken any quest I never really had for big
buck$ to remain a part of this noble institution. My work there
fills my soul with do-gooder fullness, and I am proud of any small
contribution I make to the ACLU mission. Do your country a favor and
JOIN, so you, too can be a card-carrying member and stick it to the
man!
Read this
reprint from the late Resolve of Greater Los Angeles' (RGLA) Website
of the LATimes
article about the adoption of my son, Benjamin, whose section
appears here.
I'm not looking for a job, because I LOVE my job at the
ACLU (usually), but I've posted my resume here
anyway, because everybody else seems to do that (and I so yearn to
be just like everyone else).
This has nothing to do with anything, but I find
the following Cocteau Twins videos to be absolutely sublime and extraordinary:
Song to the Siren (incorrectly attributed to This
Mortal Coil):
Carolyn's
Fingers:
Bluebeard:
and
Heaven or Las
Vegas:
are but a few of a great many Cocteau Twins songs that transport me to other dimensions.
Most of my favorites, like some of these, have "lyrics"
that can only be conjured by the listener, each song its own
language for each individual ear, simultaneously begging for and
discarding the need for interpretation —
creating an entirely other-worldly musical experience. There are many other
CT videos available on
YouTube,
though lots of them are montages set to CT music created by fans, and
not all are of reasonable quality - the real stuff can be found
here,
but they're small and take a while to download. I hereby
proclaim my undying love for the Cocteau Twins, may they rest in
peace. (The individual members of the band yet
live, so hope endures. Oh, and BE SURE to turn up the volume!)
Finally, visit
www.pacificaschool.org, the website for an LAUSD Public Charter School, where
Benjamin is in his 6th year of schooling. Pacifica is an
educational oasis in the heart of Los Angeles, providing a
non-authoritative, constructivist education from K to 8th grade.
Pacifica is a true community, centered around its 170 kids. If
you're fed up with "normal" public school, and don't want to shell
out the big buck$ for private school, I wholeheartedly recommend you
check out Pacifica. Oh, and I am a Board Member (more accurately, a
"Councilperson") and the
webmaster for Pacifica's website.
Notes on the design of this website:
The Mondrian-esque design of this site represents the "fast, cheap and
easy" approach to website design I employed in
order to get stuff up on the web quickly and painlessly. It's based on a
relatively obscure FrontPage "Theme" that includes all the
background, banner, horizontal line, bullet and button images,
and interactive buttons in a pre-packaged, yet satisfying
plug-in set. I am not a lover of Microsoft software (by a LONG shot),
but for quick and easy website development and deployment, their
FrontPage software is a damned nice tool. Sure, it generates some
nastily "dirty" code, but, while it could be better, it could also be
worse. I'll eventually do something more sophisticated, but who knows
when the hell I'll have time for that! Meanwhile, at least it looks
reasonably clean.
Also, I'm not normally a big fan
of full
justification. I had to use it here, because left
justification just looked way too raggedy in the context of the
geometric theme of the graphics. Now, you got yer squared-off paragraphs
with the resultant (and thoroughly annoying) artificially stretched-out or
compressed word-spaced text therein. One of life's little compromises, I
do suppose.
Finally, those with an astute eye will
notice that pages on this site are not centered within their browser's
window — rather, margins are deliberately
and metaphorically set to the left.
