Me & Yellojkt

Robert 'Granddad' Freeman: Didn't Jerry Lee Lewis marry a thirteen-year-old baby?
Uncle Ruckus: You can't compare a chocolate monkey like R. Kelly to Jerry Lee Lewis! He was the king of rock n' roll. Great balls of fire!

--The Boondocks, "The Trial of R. Kelly" (11/13/05)

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Of all the blog buddies that I have, Yellojkt is the one whose life appears to have the most parallels to mine, despite our different background and current situation. There are enough similarities that each of us, I think, could easily have wound up with the other's life, had a few key choices gone differently.

So I'm going to swipe one of his posting styles and do a side-by-side comparison chart. Also, I get to goof around with writing a table in HTML, since Typepad doesn't have buttons for that. </nerd>

I don't think I'm sharing anything here that couldn't be gleaned from a reading of either blog, but rest assured it's all in good fun. A sharp-eyed person might see past this chart and determine that it's about something else, but you're just seeing things.

Blog/Current Banner		(this is one of several blogs he has, but there's only so much attention span you have)
Current Avatar
Blogging since	November 2004	April 2005
Age	45	44
Location	Baltimore City	Howard County
College	Adelphi University (BA), C.W. Post (MS)	Georgia Tech is all we ever hear about
Occupation	Special Educator	I dunno, something Dilbert-ish
If you see this name in a chatroom or an Internet forum you're probably reading him	ccradio, there's a long story behind it that I don't think I've shared here yet	Yellojkt, because of GT
Hero	According to my Facebook page, there are no heroes, or villains for that matter	According to his 1/8/06 post, Ted Forth
Spouse	I've had two. I've been with GF now longer than either of them.	Got it right the first time. I think he and his wife met from adjacent bassinets in the hospital.
Children	One daughter, now a senior in high school. Wee One is GF's daughter, but recently decided to start calling me "Dad"	One son, now a freshman at GT.
Crushes	Sheryl Crow	Angelina Jolie
World Travel	Hasn't left the States since 1978	Has recently been to China and Vietnam, we've seen pictures of him in Europe...maybe he's really an international spy.
Domestic Travel	Knows the I-95 corridor from New York to Jacksonville intimately	Actually gets to do posts from cities across the USA
Rather Nerdy Blog Moment	Pirating the software from my head CT scan	Getting jazzed because he'd installed a light fixture on his own, which in turn kept the Internet from shorting out in his house (1/17/08)
Social Faux Pas	Most people think I'm a really arrogant sonofabitch till they get to know me.	Doesn't come to enough of my parties (read your mail, dammit!)
Weak joke in the sidebar that doesn't fit correctly	"Obama hasn't hired me for a job yet"	"I'm an idiot for joining Blog 365"
Connections to Kurt Vonnegut	My first post was on Kurt Vonnegut's birthday so I offered up birthday wishes. Also, several years back when I worked in Manhattan I passed Vonnegut on the street but I didn't say anything to him because I was too chicken. (Plus, that sort of thing just isn't done in New York.)	Vonnegut's book Cat's Cradle provides the overall conceit of the blog itself. The words "Foma" and "Wampeters" are from that book. The first post explained this in some detail. (I always wondered why he doesn't refer to his blogroll as a "granfalloon".)
Another literary coincidence	Had a subscription to Spy Magazine	Also had one (and now we each know who the other subscriber was)
Famous guy shoutouts	None that I know of	Has gotten public acknowledgment from both Francesco Marciuliano and Josh Fruhlinger

Hm. Maybe we're not so much alike as I originally thought.

UPDATE: I just thought of one more thing. This is the SECOND post I've done which has Yellojkt in the title. Yellojkt has written none which involve me in the title. Not that I'm showing any bitterness toward the sonofabitch.

Comments

[OM]

I'm sorry. You have a cool banner and a year more of experience in blogging and in life, but choosing Sheryl Crow over Angelina Jolie is unacceptable.

[dena]

That was an interesting post. I have to agree with the SC over AJ comment above.

[Claude]

I do not, for a moment, dispute the overall hottitude of Ms. Jolie. These are simply women for whom we've expressed some online love. In his case it was Angelina, repeatedly. In my case, I mentioned Sheryl, once.

This doesn't mean that Sheryl Crow is my primary source of wanking material. For that I go to the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.nude.jeanne_calment. Thank you.

[courtney]

You forgot to add the part where you both think I rock the house, especially when I do the Christmas music countdown?
Or is that just yellojkt? ;)

Claude replies: See the next post, then come down here so I can give you the spanking we both know you want deserve.

[yellojkt]

Sniff. I'm all choked up. I've never had a tribute post written about me. I'm really touched. And not in the "bad touch" way.

And I'm still selling the wife on the Christmas party. Right now it looks like a 75% chance we'll be there.