Generally Speaking,

As you may have gathered from the name, the idea of the website is to keep some amount of anonymity about myself, because is who I am really as important as what I stand for?  Well, anyone with some technical knowledge could find out who I am rather quickly, as obviously this is a personal domain name and is registered to someone, probably even me!  But I rely on you guys to give that anonymity to me;  I keep the name and the face to myself, but I give you what I stand for regardless, and that’s what I think it should really be about anyway, this whole exchange of ideas…

Anyway.  In the vein of full-disclosure, I should give you some info as it might be relevant to how you accept the ideas I spew about. 

I’m not a yellow-jacket, but I’m close.  I’m kind of a WASP, except I don’t believe in all that pesky “religion,” though I am not anti-something-bigger-than-we.  You might say I am a WAS – a White Anglo-Saxon.  Male even, if you believe that.  I’m straight but don’t mind if other people aren’t.  My only gripe is that please, I don’t want you to feel that you just have to shout it (...FABULOUSLY!) from the rooftops that you are gay.  I hate that.  I believe in equal rights, and I believe that what’s wrong with America today is that we don’t beat kids anymore. 

I’m also a filthy liberal.  Sort of.  I tend to think about finances rather conservatively, but when it comes down to the wire, I vote Dem because as I said above, I’m very much into equal rights for all.  Plus in my experience, what the Republicans sell themselves as and how they actually legislate is quite different:  They say “fiscal independence,” but what they really mean is “… for the rich.” 

And did I mention I like animals?  To me, it’s not a meal unless something on my plate used to moo, cluck, or oink.  Not what you thought, I know.  I have a crew of my own, so, hey it’s nothing personal – I like them as pets, too.  Hell check out my crew on the bios pages, you’ll see what I mean.

I write a lot about mundane things that happen on a daily basis.  Because this website is corny and pretty much my conceited journal, in which I grandstand and generally make things up as I go along.

But it’s all true, I swear.

Why “Random Bob”

You know, it’s a long time in the making.  And like most aliases & nicknames, it has roots that span a few generations of friends & locales. 

It all started when I was in the military.  Yes, I did that.  Every time something wasn’t right or someone did something that was messed up in some way, when no one knew who it was and we were all looking at each other like “duh….”  I’d say something to the effect of “dammit!  Bob’s doing it again, dammit,” and everyone would look at me like I was retarded.

Because no one knew a Bob.  We didn’t have any around us.  Not a one that I can recall.  Bob was a construct.  Bob was no one, he was everyone, and he was both at the same time.  Why did I pick the name bob to assign to this “Not Me” personality?  Because it’s so plain, ordinary and unsuspecting that it was always everything anti- whatever was going on.  “Bob” doesn’t snipe people from 1,000 yards away.  “Bob” is bald, wears glasses, and does your taxes.  “Bob” can’t lift 4 loaded gun racks and dump them somewhere in the middle of the desert, “Bob” carries a hankie and has his mom open the jars he can’t get to budge.

Yeah, so “Bob” was the logical  choice for a name if your goal is to be ridiculous.  Which mine was. 

As time went on, friends began to anticipate the “Bob,” and it caught on.  I was the “Bob” guy.  And eventually, “Bob” was me, in a sense.  “What’s up, Bob?”  people would say to me.  Nuthin’ much.  And this carried over to my days after the military, as well.  So when it came time to create a web presence, “Bob” seemed a logical choice.

Maybe I was wrong.  Too late now, I already registered the domain.  Dammit.