The Official Blog of Rob Smith

By all accounts, World Cup 2010 (the video game) is very good – still waiting for the Malone review. However, the game’s main focus is on the tournament itself, and it’s also pretty much the same game as FIFA 10, released last year. FIFA 10 features more of a league-centric style of play, which I [...]

I don’t understand the timing of the Howard extension. I can’t see him commanding much more money than this deal gives him on the open market, and the probability of him developing a chronic injury like Beltran or turning into David “Twilight” Ortiz increases in each year of the deal. Granted, he’s been pretty healthy [...]

The number of automatically generated spam posts to www.therobsmith.com is getting quite high. I find myself having to delete around 10 a day these days. Some of them are gibberish, some are advertisements, some are a string of links, some are vague “this is a very interesting post, i would like to learn more about [...]

Jim and Carigs, sorry to reduce the exposure of your two recent thoughtful comments on the last post, but it’s time for another post. First, congratulations to TicketNetwork softball, that sounds like a very exciting win. I don’t like that other team, they’re the one with the really annoying coach right? He must have been [...]

So lately I’ve been reading I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, by Tucker Max. This book has got to be the most vulgar, obscene book ever published. It was given to me by Justin Prophet, of course, who recommends I begin to live my life like the book. The book is told in the [...]

I hope everyone got their income tax return in on time. That’s why I haven’t posted for the last few days, I was busy doing mine (yeah right). It’s starting to get consistently hot here – into the low 90s each day. Besides that there isn’t very much new here. We’re at less than 80 [...]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes – any presents can be given to my mother in the form of money to help her furnish my new house. I feel like 26 years old isn’t a big difference from 25 – but 27, for some reason, seems like a much older number than 26. So maybe [...]

So I’ve finally made it back after living out of a bag and barely sleeping for over five days. I never thought I’d be so happy to be back at a place that most people would consider a total dump. I took care of laundry and am getting up to speed on what’s been happening [...]

I almost got off of this base today – I was ready to board a helicopter but at the last minute the crew chief said that they didn’t have room for me. So I am stuck here for a couple more days. There are very, very few flights from this base to my base, so [...]

Greetings from Kuwait. I haven’t slept in a long, long time, although I think I managed a few minutes here and there on the flight. I’m waiting here to move on to my next destination, and I’m hoping to be back at my normal base in the next couple days.
When I saw that the UConn [...]