Moab Bomb
March 6th, 2006, 05:27 PM
I know that at least one of you game lovin' geeks will know that line...
I am Moab Bomb and I've been around a couple of weeks. Most of you don't know me and don't care to, several do know and like me, and one or two poor lost souls know of me and have a profound disdain for me-go figure.
I have been playing console games since Ford was President, and computer gaming since I had a TI994A, where I would type hundreds of lines of code in BASIC, record the finished program on a portable cassette recorder, load the game in about 5 or 6 minutes, and then play thrilling games like "Battleship".
When I was 9 I was bitten by a rabid jackrabbit, making me (according to the Centers for Disease Control) the first person in recorded medical history to have been bitten by a rabid rabbit or hare (a jackrabbit is actually a hare-and there IS a difference). This, it saddens me to say, is my greatest claim to fame-but at least I was "First One in the World" for SOMETHING. Yes, there were 14 rabies shots.
I had brain surgery in November '04, which I now use to my advantage-If I lose a game, now I can say "Big deal. You beat an old man that had brain surgery". And, if I win, I can really rub it in for the same reasons. That kicks arse!
I can kick a tennis ball farther than any man alive (ok, I stole that line from Steve Martin).
Mrs. Bomb and I run a networked Xbox/Xbox 360 gamecenter, meaning that we have found a way to make EVERY console, game and all video equipment fully tax deductable. We also write/photograph/produce tourism and travel literature, making nearly every 4x4 and camping trip, including the vehicle, fuel, and digital cameras also tax deductable. Sweet deal? Oh yes, quite so. And sure, I am bragging. Forgive me, but wouldn't you?
I also work a few hours a week at the visitor center in Arches National Park, just several miles up the road from home.
My interests? Geology, Indian rock art panels, rockhounding, paleontology-boring stuff like that. Oh, and bike riding-Mrs. Bomb and I have both lost over 800 pounds (ok, only about 40 or 50 lbs since August) on two of the coolest looking bicycles the world has ever seen. No, seriously. We have the photos to back it up!
Yes, there is a Mrs Bomb, and she is my anchor and my bestest friend-the dear sweet girl grudgingly settled on me. More like took pity on me, actually- despicable wretch that I am. Love truely is blind, eh?
But I shouldn't babble on about her, though I could type endlessly about how groovy she is. I'll let her do her own boasting, bragging, and *****ing about me.
So there ya go. This is a great resource, with a whole slew of great information and opinions, and I am happy this forum/website and nearly every forum user exists. I will post here and there, now and then. Maybe my posts will be useful, maybe useless, sometimes I'll just make up nonsense for my own amusement (see the post aboot "Kid gets teabagged in real life" http://www.achieve360points.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=664 for an example) and occasionally will touch a raw nerve in the overly sensitive without originally meaning ANY offense or harm, but snits happen, eh?
ps-I suffer from "diarrhea of the keyboard", as this post amply illustrates.
"PS-this is what part of the alphabet would look like if 'Q' and 'R' were eliminated."-Mitch Hedberg
I am Moab Bomb and I've been around a couple of weeks. Most of you don't know me and don't care to, several do know and like me, and one or two poor lost souls know of me and have a profound disdain for me-go figure.
I have been playing console games since Ford was President, and computer gaming since I had a TI994A, where I would type hundreds of lines of code in BASIC, record the finished program on a portable cassette recorder, load the game in about 5 or 6 minutes, and then play thrilling games like "Battleship".
When I was 9 I was bitten by a rabid jackrabbit, making me (according to the Centers for Disease Control) the first person in recorded medical history to have been bitten by a rabid rabbit or hare (a jackrabbit is actually a hare-and there IS a difference). This, it saddens me to say, is my greatest claim to fame-but at least I was "First One in the World" for SOMETHING. Yes, there were 14 rabies shots.
I had brain surgery in November '04, which I now use to my advantage-If I lose a game, now I can say "Big deal. You beat an old man that had brain surgery". And, if I win, I can really rub it in for the same reasons. That kicks arse!
I can kick a tennis ball farther than any man alive (ok, I stole that line from Steve Martin).
Mrs. Bomb and I run a networked Xbox/Xbox 360 gamecenter, meaning that we have found a way to make EVERY console, game and all video equipment fully tax deductable. We also write/photograph/produce tourism and travel literature, making nearly every 4x4 and camping trip, including the vehicle, fuel, and digital cameras also tax deductable. Sweet deal? Oh yes, quite so. And sure, I am bragging. Forgive me, but wouldn't you?
I also work a few hours a week at the visitor center in Arches National Park, just several miles up the road from home.
My interests? Geology, Indian rock art panels, rockhounding, paleontology-boring stuff like that. Oh, and bike riding-Mrs. Bomb and I have both lost over 800 pounds (ok, only about 40 or 50 lbs since August) on two of the coolest looking bicycles the world has ever seen. No, seriously. We have the photos to back it up!
Yes, there is a Mrs Bomb, and she is my anchor and my bestest friend-the dear sweet girl grudgingly settled on me. More like took pity on me, actually- despicable wretch that I am. Love truely is blind, eh?
But I shouldn't babble on about her, though I could type endlessly about how groovy she is. I'll let her do her own boasting, bragging, and *****ing about me.
So there ya go. This is a great resource, with a whole slew of great information and opinions, and I am happy this forum/website and nearly every forum user exists. I will post here and there, now and then. Maybe my posts will be useful, maybe useless, sometimes I'll just make up nonsense for my own amusement (see the post aboot "Kid gets teabagged in real life" http://www.achieve360points.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=664 for an example) and occasionally will touch a raw nerve in the overly sensitive without originally meaning ANY offense or harm, but snits happen, eh?
ps-I suffer from "diarrhea of the keyboard", as this post amply illustrates.
"PS-this is what part of the alphabet would look like if 'Q' and 'R' were eliminated."-Mitch Hedberg