Robb Topolski
22 May 2008 @ 11:30 pm
It's Larry Craig "Bobblefoot" Day! - May 22, 2008  
It's Larry Craig "Bobblefoot" Day! - May 22, 2008
Minor league promotion is homage to senator's airport bathroom bust

MAY 22--Capitalizing on Senator Larry Craig's restroom bust, a Minnesota minor league baseball team this Sunday is giving away a promotional item celebrating the Republican politician's arrest last year at the Minneapolis-St.Paul airport. Dubbed a "bobblefoot" (as opposed to a bobblehead doll), the polyresin giveaway depicts an occupied bathroom stall (the inhabitant's pants and shoes can be seen below the stall's panels). When the St. Paul Saints's "bobblefoot" is shaken, one of the spring-loaded feet taps.
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Robb Topolski
16 May 2008 @ 05:14 pm
Beware the Salmon Bot  
Apparently, I just got Salmon-botted.  It was weird but harmless.  This has been going on for a while.

(4:50:23 PM) PliableSalmon: I'm not sure that's any different from prostitution, but I like it anyway.

(4:50:43 PM) AIM: funchords: eh?

(4:51:13 PM) PliableSalmon: Relax...did you read my previous post?

(4:54:12 PM) AIM: funchords: Sorry but I don't know who this is nor which post (since I've been in several today). :)

(4:56:14 PM) PliableSalmon: Ah...You probably don't know me...this is the forth time this has happened to me...Getting an AIM message from someone with a SN that's "____Salmon" is a bot that connects two recently updated LJ users with both having the "____Salmon" Screen Name...it appears harmless, but if you didn't know that before, you know it now...please feel free to ignore these in the future

(4:58:54 PM) AIM: funchords: How strange! At least it helps people meet. I'm "funchords.livejournal.com" and yes, I just updated. Nice to meet you.

(4:59:41 PM) PliableSalmon: Yeah...but usually it just leads to confusion, I'm geckoman on LJ

(5:01:10 PM) PliableSalmon: Well, I'm off...gotta go buy a birthday present for my niece

(5:01:19 PM) AIM: funchords: okay, nice to meet you!

(5:01:23 PM) AIM: funchords: bye
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Robb Topolski
16 May 2008 @ 04:47 pm
Worth a Click: "Ballad of the TCP Reset Packet"  
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Robb Topolski
22 April 2008 @ 11:59 pm
Pwned! And on Google Maps "Street View" No Less!!!  
Click the following links, in order...

1. "What a nice day!"

2. "Riding my bike, riding my bike, riding my bike ... Hey, what's that weird looking car following me for?"


3.  "Hey, watch it -- HEY! -- Owww.  OWWW! -- Son-of-a-OWWWW!!!!"

4.  "Cripes!"

5.  "Uhhhhhhhhh.... uhhhhhhhhhh.... I sure hope nobody saw that!"


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Robb Topolski
15 April 2008 @ 08:11 am
Yahoo Messenger Spam  
I woke up this morning to this via Yahoo! Messenger ...
(4/15/2008 2:27:08 AM) lizzybeth22222: I am lizzybeth j john,I was Born and Raised In Arizona In Usa..Loc..300,mission road,sedona..I will Like to Describe Myself....I am 5;7fst,Brown Long hair,hazel eyes...130lbs...I am an Honest and Godfearing lady,Respect,Caring,Faithful,Loving,Sense of Humours...I was Born In Christain Family ...My Family BackGround...Catholic....I am Causain White.....Wht do U Like to do....I Like to cook,Readnovel,Movies,Dance,Music and go to beach with My right man.......I am Single Looking For Long term Relationship to spend the rest of my life with him in Happy home and settle down forever........I will like to know eachother better.....Like to hear from you....Bye..
I get two or three of these a week.  They're real people.  Usually, I politely say "thank you, but I'm not interested," and then I block them. 

I looked up the address, and it is a valid address in Sedona, but I don't think there's a beach nearby.  If she lives with Grandma and Grandpa, though, I think they're my kind of people!

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Robb Topolski
21 March 2008 @ 09:38 pm
I Believe in Yesterday ... the ramblings of a cyber-hippie  
I Believe in Yesterday ... the ramblings of a cyber-hippie

Yesterday
We made friendships here and far away,
Greed and power brought our judgment day,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There weren't half the sites there used to be,
Deep Inspection hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly!

Why'd they cut my flow?
Now it's slow. But they just say,
"You'll do something wrong!"
How I long for yesterday!

Yesterday,
We built networks for both work and play!
Then the bullies took it all away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

When they dimmed the dawn,
Progress gone! So now they say,
"Tune in, See what's on!"
How I long for yesterday!

Yesterday
Iron walls could not keep friends away,
World-wide networks gave each man a say,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.



by Robb Topolski, a cyber-hippie. Inspired by and dedicated to Karl at DSLReports. Parody of McCarney lyrics to the Beatles hit Yesterday, which has several paradoxical links: including reflection, the 1960s, breaking-up, best (songs/inventions) of 20th century, etc.


http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20198505-Yesterday
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Robb Topolski
19 February 2008 @ 08:32 pm
Okay, try this when you're really, really drunk (and your insurance is paid)...  
...march to The Star Spangled Banner.

Go visit the Songwriters Hall of Fame at www.songwritershalloffame.org and then
1. Click on Inductee Exhibits, then
2. Early American Song, then
3. Colonial Period

The 4th paragraph starts: The greatest influence during the Colonial times, however, were the melodies generated from Europe, including "Yankee Doodle," "The Star Spangled Banner," and "America," all of which featured a march-like 4/4 rhythm.

T'huh, wha?! Okay, so go do it! And when you fall down and break a hip, send your bill to SHoF Chairman Hal "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" David.

(For the musically disinclined, "The Star Spangled Banner" is in 3/4 rhythm, which might work as a march if you have a number of legs divisible by 3. You might be able to get a Waltz out of it, but not a very good one.)

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Robb Topolski
14 November 2007 @ 12:29 pm
Worth a Click: Respect the Colorectal Surgeon...  

This is a hilarious song, apparently performed for the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons by comedians Bowser & Blue.

Thanks for the forward, mom! XOXO
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Robb Topolski
12 November 2007 @ 09:00 am
Family Guy Season 6: '911 Call' (Deleted Scene)  

Fact: 2 out of 3 Emergency Dispatchers do not complete the standard 1 year 'probationary period.' Maybe if they took the job a little more like this...
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Robb Topolski
09 November 2007 @ 11:27 am
A Fun Fact about My Town: Hillsboro, Oregon  

I found this funny passage on the Washington County Museum site:

In 1880 a Hillsboro city ordinance established a fire district with a volunteer fire department. By 1890, the town had a new city hall, a building for the fire department and three fire hydrants.

When the Oddfellows Hall burned down on a cold winter’s night in 1894, a local bar owner offered free drinks to firefighters to keep their bodies warm and their spirits up. Unfortunately, the next day the Fire Department was greatly depleted as the men stayed home to recover from the bar owner’s generosity. The result was the formation of the Hillsboro Coffee Club, which thereafter provided coffee and cakes to the firefighters to keep them out of saloons. The Club later purchased a house as a resting place for farmers and their families. The Coffee Club disbanded in 1997.
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Robb Topolski
25 August 2007 @ 02:41 am
IPHONE BILL  

AT&T Drops Huge iPhone Bills after Outcry -- Justine Ezarik, a graphic artist from Pittsburgh, placed this video on YouTube after she received a 300-page bill that she explained with exasperation in her voice, arrived "in a box."
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Robb Topolski
20 November 2006 @ 07:39 pm
 
1. A little bit back, I posted about the $100 million PlayStation. Now read about the Nintendo Wii that killed the 60-inch Big Screen Television!

2. Taking the kids out to dinner, tonight. It's Heidi's Birthday!

3. My bowling break-through fell through. God, I suck. The only good thing I have to say about yesterday's bowling is that nobody got hurt!! :-D
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Robb Topolski
29 June 2002 @ 08:30 am
On the Air Gaffs  

On the Air Gaffs


(I was in law enforcement for 12 years, most of that working in Communications...)

Silent alarm at the Oaxaca Restaurant. (I didn't know how to pronounce that, so, of course, it came out "Any unit to respond to the 4-5-9 silent at the Oh-Kah-Kah Restaurant..." Business was down after that, I'm sure.)

Pursuit at O-Dark-Thirty, officer requesting a helicopter. My reply: "eight-john-thirteen, be advised, I can't get it up."

While I was on new-employee probation, I dispatched a Family Fight where mom was upset because "the son brought home two whores." I wanted to be more professional than say "whore" on the radio, so it went out as "seven-edward-twenty-three on the 4-15-Family mother and son dispute because the son brought home two trollops." You all know what 7E23 said next: "10-4, what's a trollop?"
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