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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 and “lighting simulationist”. 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.

Having done an eleven year tour of duty as a lighting consultant in New York City, Rob moved to Boulder, Colorado in the summer of 2005 and loves living among the mountains. He spent four years at a sustainable design consultant in Boulder, but upon realizing that the owners of that company were infantile retards, he looked for employment elsewhere. He currently works in the Commercial Buildings Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO and is happy to be doing lighting research there. Oh, and by the way, everything on this website is the opinion of the author and does not reflect the position of the Lab in any way.

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 weird 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 before moving to Colorado. Emma has very sadly passed away, but her spirit lives on in Hooper and Ellie, their new dog and cat.

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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