rob c.
@rcolonna.bsky.social
a mechanical engineer, once. train kid dad. mediocre soccer player. militant cyclist. @swimman79.bsky.social's least favorite husband.
introduce yourself with four spaceships.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
introduce yourself with four spaceships.
when you’re moved by a photo of mechanical wear…
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
when you’re moved by a photo of mechanical wear…
every once in a while i play a team that makes me feel as old & mediocre as i am. just a track meet from start to finish. 2.2 miles on a 7v7 field is not easy to do. i did not pass well under pressure, but i did have a couple of near miss golazos. we lost 2 - 0 and that feels like an accomplishment.
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
every once in a while i play a team that makes me feel as old & mediocre as i am. just a track meet from start to finish. 2.2 miles on a 7v7 field is not easy to do. i did not pass well under pressure, but i did have a couple of near miss golazos. we lost 2 - 0 and that feels like an accomplishment.
goddamn cars parking in bike lanes.
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
goddamn cars parking in bike lanes.
sure, my kid’s costume proved to be too heavy for the three hours of trick or treating, but some other fad manning a front stoop appreciated the sheer quantity of hot glue and poured me a beer. i love my neighborhood so damn much.
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
sure, my kid’s costume proved to be too heavy for the three hours of trick or treating, but some other fad manning a front stoop appreciated the sheer quantity of hot glue and poured me a beer. i love my neighborhood so damn much.
this is what happens when i let my kid go wild in cities: skylines. over a third of our operating budget is now trains. he has built them into elaborate loops that we have to figure out how to actually run lines on.
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is what happens when i let my kid go wild in cities: skylines. over a third of our operating budget is now trains. he has built them into elaborate loops that we have to figure out how to actually run lines on.
here have a picture of my cat, who doesn’t understand why we’re up watching baseball but is happy for the extra innings of snuggles.
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
here have a picture of my cat, who doesn’t understand why we’re up watching baseball but is happy for the extra innings of snuggles.
speaking of just not having a legislature anymore…
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
speaking of just not having a legislature anymore…
making’ it real, one hot glue burn and box cutter slip at a time.
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
making’ it real, one hot glue burn and box cutter slip at a time.
at least the grueling build of my kid’s halloween costume has given me the opportunity to actually design something again, and better yet, to not use solidworks to do it.
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
at least the grueling build of my kid’s halloween costume has given me the opportunity to actually design something again, and better yet, to not use solidworks to do it.
pleased that somebody improved on our halloween decorations.
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
pleased that somebody improved on our halloween decorations.
our block of the south end eerily alone without power until 0330 apparently. something really complicated must have broken under columbus ave.
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
our block of the south end eerily alone without power until 0330 apparently. something really complicated must have broken under columbus ave.
father and son matching AT-ATs. his is better and he built it first, then demanded i also make one, and obviously i made it boring and gray.
fun fact: he’s never even seen star wars but he remembered it from ‘rise of the resistance’ (which he thinks is real) and built it for me. #lego
fun fact: he’s never even seen star wars but he remembered it from ‘rise of the resistance’ (which he thinks is real) and built it for me. #lego
October 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
father and son matching AT-ATs. his is better and he built it first, then demanded i also make one, and obviously i made it boring and gray.
fun fact: he’s never even seen star wars but he remembered it from ‘rise of the resistance’ (which he thinks is real) and built it for me. #lego
fun fact: he’s never even seen star wars but he remembered it from ‘rise of the resistance’ (which he thinks is real) and built it for me. #lego
it’s 2025. major league baseball could figure out a way to charge me $5 to watch a playoff game on a friday night or they could give me this highly understandable wall of text.
October 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
it’s 2025. major league baseball could figure out a way to charge me $5 to watch a playoff game on a friday night or they could give me this highly understandable wall of text.
look at how beautifully and mathematically fucked the taper on my old crank arm is.
September 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
look at how beautifully and mathematically fucked the taper on my old crank arm is.
856 is the bear america needs right now.
September 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
856 is the bear america needs right now.
if he insists that everything we build winds up in the bathtub, may as well go in style.
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
if he insists that everything we build winds up in the bathtub, may as well go in style.
confirmed, we are having a real normal one.
August 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
confirmed, we are having a real normal one.
oh look it’s a josh kraft sign surrounded by parking lots. very on-brand.
July 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
oh look it’s a josh kraft sign surrounded by parking lots. very on-brand.
it was doubleheader day. we won 8-0 and lost 2-4. in the second we straight up gifted them three goals. it was hot and we were tired? i don’t know honestly. i do know that we didn’t get enough runners up and couldn’t hold the ball. i played fine, positioned really well, played the ball clean.
July 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
it was doubleheader day. we won 8-0 and lost 2-4. in the second we straight up gifted them three goals. it was hot and we were tired? i don’t know honestly. i do know that we didn’t get enough runners up and couldn’t hold the ball. i played fine, positioned really well, played the ball clean.
shut the fuck up, the only crime wave happening in boston is the raccoons eating my damn begonias.
July 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
shut the fuck up, the only crime wave happening in boston is the raccoons eating my damn begonias.
and now, an important and timely message from my dad, that one time he was on ‘good morning america’:
July 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
and now, an important and timely message from my dad, that one time he was on ‘good morning america’: