rob | navel gazing | Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
My costume for Halloween tonight was that I was a Pirate FROM the Caribbean. I rocked in the hammock, wore a Caribbean shirt, and we played Caribbean Steel Pan Band music all night as we handed out candy in our driveway. (hey, I think it’s at least as good as going as a Facebook page or a YouTube page)
The best part was when a group of kids came by and asked me a series of questions like “Are you a real pirate?” and “Is that a real sword?” I, of course, answered yes to both (it really was a real sword). I told the parents I was a Pirate from the Caribbean and they loved it. We even had an empty bottle of rum behind me.
I think the scariest thing about Halloween is the fear of running out of candy!
Earlier this week, in the House of Lords (British Parliament), there was a debate among the Lords about the restrictions on carrying liquids onto a plane. Baron Bassam of Brighton was giving a report on how well things are going with the liquid restrictions:
We continuously monitor the effectiveness of, in particular, the liquid security measures…The fact that there has not been a serious incident involving liquid explosives indicates, I would have thought, that the measures that we have put in place so far have been very effective.”
So because there’s been no incidents with explosives and liquids, the security measures must be great! It’s of course the same reason there are no elephants in my backyard — I have tight security to keep them out.
The Baron of Battersea asked:
My Lords, when these measures were first introduced, there was a complete prohibition on taking tubes of toothpaste or any liquids. This was subsequently changed. Why?
The good Baron Bassam replied:
I can only assume that it was because the level of threat from a tube of toothpaste was considered rather less than that from a bottle of liquid.
Ahh! Of course. Then came the best question ever asked in this context. The Baron Elton asked:
What damage can be done by 105 millilitres of liquid that cannot be done by 100 millilitres of liquid?
Baron Bassam baffled:
My briefing does not extend to that. I suspect that this is based on science.
Last week when my family was down, we went to Disney. The day we went to the Magic Kingdom we stayed after for Micky’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party.
After the parade, we had about 30 minutes left before the park closed so we grabbed the girls and headed for, where else but the Haunted Mansion! I got to take Victoria in my arms (the 2 year old).
She’s so awesome! And I knew going on a ride like that at night with her could be a challenge. But kids that age react to how you react. So we prepped her. We laughed, kept her moving, and had her keep repeating phrases we’d say. She loves doing this so we took advantage of it.
One of her phrases is “I not scared!” We used this one to our advantage a lot. We’d say it, she’d repeat it. We were in line and we laughed, she’d laugh and say “I not scared!”
And she never was!
Throughout the ride we kept entertaining her and making lite of everything. “Look, it’s a dance party” and “it’s dinner time” and “bye bye ghost”. She loved it! She was waving to all the ghosts and having a great time.
One thing he shares often are blogs posts that talk about him.
So, Hello Robert Scoble! My name is Robert also but I go by Rob. This is my place (though my I have a personal portal page capturing my online presence).
Last week I was talking with my 5 year old niece. She wanted me to go outside and play. I told her I would “later”. She said she’d be gone by then (apparently kids know what “later” means to adults).
I told her I couldn’t go “now” but that wasn’t good enough for her. So I had to explain that time (present and future) can be in one of 4 places:
now
after now
before later
later
We decided to go outside “before later”. Truth be told, I think we went out “after now”.
When I redesigned this place, I threw away the little Tropical Storm Status box that I used to have over there on the right. I thought about putting it back, but I figured the season was slowing down so much (and will be over at the end of November) that I wouldn’t bother.
I’ve been running across a lot of pure randomness online. It’s a lot of fun! I usually share these items, but I wanted to highlight my favorite latest top 10 items in case you missed them.
Oh, and to add to the randomness of this site, I’ve added a link at the bottom of each post that will take you to a random post somewhere here in rob’s place. Have fun randomly exploring!
I found out that my 6 year old niece knows the Peanut Butter Jelly Time song. It started when we were at a restaurant one evening and they had Peanut Butter Cake. Me, being silly, said, “I wonder if they have Jelly Cake too” and she replied, “Oh! And what if they had Bread Cake too!”
Then we started singing It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time! And she even had a dance for it. Nice.
Later I found out that my entire family knows about Peanut Butter Jelly Time, except for Dad. So Dad, I found the original Flash version of it, a YouTube version and more info from Wikipedia.
In September of 2007, Patricia and I were really fortunate to be able to go on a family cruise vacation on board the Princess Emerald in the Mediterranean Sea. I finally have photos and blog posts about each city we went to online. I’m writing this post to pull it all together (an index if you will).
So here is the list of cities we went to on our entire vacation with links to the blog post summary and photo set for each:
My costume for Halloween tonight was that I was a Pirate FROM the Caribbean. I rocked in the hammock, wore a Caribbean shirt, and we played Caribbean Steel Pan Band music all night as we handed out candy in our driveway. (hey, I think it’s at least as good as going as a Facebook page or a YouTube page)
