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SpaceBass
The BADministrator
Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2701 Location: pellucidar
Ronsworld.org Also courtesy of BestFriendChris , this is Ron Daubert's personal website. He's got some biographical information there, what looks like a shoutout to the ARG community, a blog , and another email addy on both the "contact" and "about me" pages. I've emailed it but no response as yet.
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:14 am
herichon
Boot
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 55 Location: portland
Maybe not so meaningful, but it seems that Ron always uses song titles as the titles for his blog entries...
"Crazy" - several artists, from Patsy Cline to Aerosmith
"It's a Mistake" - Men at Work
"How Soon is Now" - The Smiths (covered by Love Spit Love among others)
"Somewhere Out There" - from "An American Tail", sung by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
"And She Was" - Talking Heads
"Nowhere Man" - Beatles
"Pick a little talk a little" - from "The Music Man", written by Meredith Wilson
"Love is All Around" - Trogs, REM, others
"Don't Worry Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin of course
"Violently Happy" - Bjork
Quite an eclectic taste in music, has our Ron. There are more but I am getting sleepy and the more I look at this the less I think it's anything other than Ron being clever... unless someone else is seeing something I am missing...
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:44 am
spaceboy
Unfettered
Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 475 Location: Cambridge Mental Hospital
Ron seems to be quite the ARG fan. I too have emailed him and am waiting for a reply.
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:47 am
sequoya
Unfettered
Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 548 Location: Land of haggis, kilts, neds and Irn-Bru
O_O I'm shocked at our Ron. Yes, he may look reasonably hot in the photos but how rude is he in the entries! Ha ha!
Quote:
...lady, I might sleep with you but it's not going to get you on the show..
Quote:
...some guy named after a fish..
Heh. Awesome.
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:47 am
Fi
Unfettered
Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 444 Location: London
How could you forget Wet, Wet, Wet?!! Outrageous!
Or maybe you were spared that awful rendition of Love Is All Around which stayed Number 1 for, like, EVAR!
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:31 am
Guest
Guest
If you check Ron's blog, at the left side is the menu bar with all the links. Click the About Me link. According to IE, the link should lead to www.ronsworld.org/bio.html. It is dead...
Is it strange that some-one who has a killer-website with awesome flash-works, and who has been working as a computer-guru and is working as a webmaster can't keep track of his own website or am I just seeing ghosts where none is to be found?
EDIT:
According to later messages, just my computer that is f**cked up as usual
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:12 am
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jamesd
Greenhorn
Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 3
BTK, I used the "About Me" link and it worked. It takes you to a Flash intro, then on to Ron's main page.
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:17 am
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 8010 Location: My own alternate reality
For the record. I did not offer to sleep with him, just ask if there was anything I could do (i.e. submit to TT was the intention) to be accepted as an Online Advisor. If he choose to take it as an offer of a good roll in the hay, well, that's his fantasy (for which I was willing to sacrifice myself in the name of furthering this game).
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:20 am
StercusMaximus
Decorated
Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 204 Location: MA
konamouse wrote:
For the record. I did not offer to sleep with him, just ask if there was anything I could do (i.e. submit to TT was the intention) to be accepted as an Online Advisor. If he choose to take it as an offer of a good roll in the hay, well, that's his fantasy (for which I was willing to sacrifice myself in the name of furthering this game).
hahaha, way to take one for the team, Kona!!
SM
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:32 pm
herichon
Boot
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 55 Location: portland
FleaSick wrote:
How could you forget Wet, Wet, Wet?!! Outrageous!
Or maybe you were spared that awful rendition of Love Is All Around which stayed Number 1 for, like, EVAR!
oh yeah! you know i had forgotten about that one... gee, thanks for the reminder.
Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:28 pm
The Watcher
Unfettered
Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 493
Wow I'm surprised he so openly talks about ARGs, considering he is a character in one.
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:47 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 8010 Location: My own alternate reality
It gives this ARG a whole new dimension
And, his love of puzzles - still keeps me thinking about those song titles. I wish I knew more about music and albums. Maybe the titles of the albums from which these songs come from? Or the names of the artists?
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:54 pm
wvlf_prower
Boot
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Memphis, TN
Maybe it's a list of numbers. Find the artist's name, find the album, find the track number.
Quote:
"Crazy" - several artists, from Patsy Cline to Aerosmith
"It's a Mistake" - Men at Work
"How Soon is Now" - The Smiths (covered by Love Spit Love among others)
"Somewhere Out There" - from "An American Tail", sung by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
"And She Was" - Talking Heads
"Nowhere Man" - Beatles
"Pick a little talk a little" - from "The Music Man", written by Meredith Wilson
"Love is All Around" - Trogs, REM, others
"Don't Worry Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin of course
"Violently Happy" - Bjork
Taking the Aerosmith route for the first one, we've got track 11. (From Get a Grip)
Men at work - It's a Mistake - Track 6 from Cargo
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now - Track 5 from Hatful of Hollow
An American Tail - Somewhere Out There - Track 9 from the OST
Talking Heads - And She Was - Track 1 from Little Creatures
The Beatles - Nowhere Man - Track 4 from the U.K. release of Rubber Soul
Music Man - Pick a Little Talk a Little - Depending on which version, it's either track 11, track 8 or track 9
Love Is All Around - I couldn't find a track listing for this at all
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy - Track 1 from Simple Pleasures
Björk - Violently Happy - Track 10 from Debut.
That's all I've got.
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 2:39 pm
Lobo
Boot
Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 23
Quote:
Love Is All Around - I couldn't find a track listing for this at all
I went with the Troggs version being that they were the first.
Appears on the Wild Thing album and is track number 2
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:05 pm
dmax
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 1387 Location: Location: Location!
Here's the complete list of song titles (don't forget to work backwards on the list of entries):
"Crazy" - several artists, from Patsy Cline to Aerosmith
"It's a Mistake" - Men at Work
"How Soon is Now" - The Smiths (covered by Love Spit Love among others)
"Somewhere Out There" - from "An American Tail", sung by Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
"And She Was" - Talking Heads
"Nowhere Man" - Beatles
"Pick a little talk a little" - from "The Music Man", written by Meredith Wilson
"Love is All Around" - Trogs, REM, others
"Don't Worry Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
"Violently Happy" - Bjork
"Working for the Weekend" - Loverboy
"Hopping Down the Bunny Trail"
"Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N Roses
"Dip dip dip dip get a job..." - Silhouettes
"Just Like Starting Over" - John Lennon
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:19 pm
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