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About rumblestrip
This site is Rob Guglielmetti’s personal home on the web. He writes stuff and takes pictures of things and dumps it all here. A couple of years ago he registered his own domain name so that he could have one email address and one website address forever. While “guglielmetti.net” was available, he recalled how badly people have mangled his last name and so decided against it. After an exhaustive search for a mysterious and pithy name, he found that rumblestrip.org was still available and shrewdly snatched it up. He has since discovered that no one in his family knows what the hell a rumblestrip is, so people are now getting bounced emails that were sent to rpg@gumbledrip.org, rpg@bumbleship.org, and rpg@grumbledip.org. This upsets him.

The phrase “What’s your opinion? We’d like to know” at the head of the post comment form is directly lifted from the old editorial guy’s signoff on New York’s WPIX TV channel 11 back in the 70’s. Rob realizes he’s dating himself with that one, and he does not care.

About Rob Guglielmetti
Rob is a lighting designer currently learning the ropes of sustainable design at a consulting firm in Boulder, CO. He is particularly interested in utilizing computers in lighting—using computers to predict the sometimes wily behavior of light—and uses Radiance to perform lighting calculations and analysis. He also uses AutoCAD and other programs in his daily work. At this point, Radiance is his main tool, and that program, its author and the small global community of users are his friends.

Prior to getting involved in architectural lighting, he did some theatrical lighting design, set design, acting, and stand-up comedy. Like Dean Allen, he is a gifted mimic. Deep down, he’s quite certain he’s a better mimic than Dean Allen.

He is vain.

He likes coffee, beer and Manhattans. He’s interested in web programming and HTML. He’s raced & fixed bicycles and built bicycle wheels. He’s messed around with water-cooled and air-cooled Volkswagens. He’s brewed his own beer. He watches baseball (and as far as that goes. He’s a Yankee Fan). He’s a private pilot.

He’s an opinionated jerk; he’s a kook and a dork.

Vehicularly speaking, He can operate a motorcycle, canoe, automobile, paddle-boat, airplane, bicycle, go-kart, lawnmower, BigWheel™, and skateboard. Skates—ice and roller—give him problems. He’s never skied, and he only mentions that because that verb in the past tense looks wierd when one writes it down.

After almost ten years of courtship, he & Brenda got hitched on May 7, 2000. They lived together in Woodbridge Township, NJ USA with their beloved cat, Emma, surrounded by malls and chain restaurants for three years, but are in the midst of a major life change—living, hiking and working in Boulder, Colorado amidst breweries, mountains and clean air—and loving every minute of it.

He’s been hit by a car twice. Once as a tyke on a bike; that time he broke his jaw and lost some teeth. The second time he was clipped by a chick in a Honda Acura who ran a stop sign. Seconds after telling her to “go to hell” and watching her speed off, his entire left side went numb. But he still made it to tennis class, albiet a few minutes late. Eventually the numbness went away. This was in college.

He dislikes cake, pies and most chocolate treats. He likes Necco wafers and Fruit Stripe gum.

His last name is pronounced goo-yell-METTY. It means “little william”. Guglielmo is Italian for William, and the “-etti” suffix means small, or little. Put them together, and you have the hardest name to pronounce in the english language, apparently. The two most common “jokes” he hears after telling someone his last name are “ah, a nice French name, eh?”, and “gee, how long did it take for you to learn how to spell that?”. At this point, neither are funny.

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