Where is RR?

I'm goin' down · 11-25-10, 02:08 PM

Nimitz asks, "The world wonders where Rockin Robbins is?"

[His last post was 10-04-2010.]

above quote adapted from Wikipeidia's summary of the Battle of Leyete Gulf set forth below:

From 3,000 mi (4,800 km) away in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz had been monitoring the desperate calls from Taffy 3, and sent Halsey a terse message: "TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS." The first four words and the last three were "padding" used to confuse enemy cryptanalysis (the beginning and end of the true message was marked by double consonants). The communications staff on Halsey's flagship correctly deleted the first section of padding but mistakenly retained the last three words in the message finally handed to Halsey. The last three words, probably selected by a communications officer at Nimitz's headquarters, may have been meant as a loose quote from Tennyson's poem on "The Charge of the Light Brigade", suggested by the coincidence that this day, 25 October, was the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava – and was not intended as a commentary on the current crisis off Leyte. Halsey, however, when reading the message, thought that the last words — ‘THE WORLD WONDERS’ — were a biting piece of criticism from Nimitz, threw his cap to the deck and broke into "sobs of rage". Rear Admiral Robert Carney, his Chief of Staff, confronted him, telling Halsey "Stop it! What the hell's the matter with you? Pull yourself together."

subskipper53 · 11-25-10, 06:03 PM

He's probably on patrol, ripping the Nips a new one in Tokyo Bay.

Diopos · 11-26-10, 12:31 AM

IMGD,
was about to start a thread, too ...
Hoping all is well.

.

Freiwillige · 11-26-10, 03:26 AM

Yea it would be a shame to list him MIA in the Pacific or on eternal patrol

That guy talked me through so many issues after coming from SHIII when I was so frustrated I was about to implode he took me under his wing (No pun intended.) and taught me to become a real skipper!

Soon I was hooked and tearing up the Pacific all THX to RR.

I hope he's alright.

G2B · 11-26-10, 09:02 AM

Maybe he sank another Essex class

Hope he is alright.

Fish40 · 11-26-10, 01:16 PM

I hope all is well RR.

Hitman · 11-26-10, 02:18 PM

Same here, hope all is well.

Armistead · 11-26-10, 02:48 PM

Yea, I noticed he sort of vanished.

Hopefully all is well.

ShadowWolf Kell · 11-26-10, 04:15 PM

He might have vanaished with the SH5 debacle like others did. I'm guilty of that myself.

WernherVonTrapp · 11-27-10, 09:18 AM

I like to be optimistic so, I'm sure he's OK. Still, I said a prayer for him, just in case.

Onkel Neal · 11-27-10, 09:50 AM

His last login was Nov 22.

Rockin Robbins · 11-27-10, 01:48 PM

*'d/i8,xre1jmh.50]z0p1\p[m9hm\90r'jsvw9=gw0;w7o0........stupid experimental squawk box there. Just surfaced for a quick airing out there. Been doing extended submergence trials with some nasty air scrubbing chemicals I can't talk about.

Actually, real life and unemployment has been intruding on my normal lifestyle. Then I had muchas graphics card problems with my EVGA 7900GS and with a replacement EVGA GTS 250 I bought, putting me out of any computing at all for about a month. I don't know about EVGA. Not only did they walk away from their old lifetime warranty but they are enforcing their register in 30 days or forget any warranty clause. Methinks it's time to shop another company next time. They may have lost their mojo.

Then after I fixed my video card problems I had a power failure while my computer was writing to the hard drive. It was complete software rebuild time as my backup was trash too. Fortunately I had a very recent Belarc report (makes duplicating your previous setup a piece of cake!) and an older backup that allowed me to restore just about every setting on the machine.

So now it's time to get SH4 running again and get back in the swim here. Thanks for all the support, guys! I'm happy to say that reports of my demise were premature.

Ubi's SH5 debacle aside, Subsim is still the greatest place on the Internet and remains unscathed! Thanks Neal.

Diopos · 11-27-10, 02:43 PM

RR,
good you're back...

and don't worry, in these times, unemployment is a lifestyle!

.

I'm goin' down · 11-27-10, 03:03 PM

Okay boys, let's carve the turkey!!

Hitman · 11-27-10, 03:14 PM

Bahh, so nothing serious happened to him ...

just joking, I'm glad you are all right and it's only the stupid real life getting in the way!!

But there have been in the past certain very strange vanishings of members that can only be explained with a tragedy

and that is something very sad, because you learn to really appreciate some guys around here

I'm thinking about Captain Cox

11-25-10, 02:08 PM	#1
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	Where is RR? Nimitz asks, "The world wonders where Rockin Robbins is?" [His last post was 10-04-2010.] above quote adapted from Wikipeidia's summary of the Battle of Leyete Gulf set forth below: From 3,000 mi (4,800 km) away in Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz had been monitoring the desperate calls from Taffy 3, and sent Halsey a terse message: "TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS." The first four words and the last three were "padding" used to confuse enemy cryptanalysis (the beginning and end of the true message was marked by double consonants). The communications staff on Halsey's flagship correctly deleted the first section of padding but mistakenly retained the last three words in the message finally handed to Halsey. The last three words, probably selected by a communications officer at Nimitz's headquarters, may have been meant as a loose quote from Tennyson's poem on "The Charge of the Light Brigade", suggested by the coincidence that this day, 25 October, was the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Balaclava – and was not intended as a commentary on the current crisis off Leyte. Halsey, however, when reading the message, thought that the last words — ‘THE WORLD WONDERS’ — were a biting piece of criticism from Nimitz, threw his cap to the deck and broke into "sobs of rage". Rear Admiral Robert Carney, his Chief of Staff, confronted him, telling Halsey "Stop it! What the hell's the matter with you? Pull yourself together." Last edited by I'm goin' down; 11-26-10 at 02:34 PM. Reason: added wikipedia quote

11-26-10, 12:31 AM	#3
Diopos Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Athens, the original one. Posts: 1,226 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	IMGD, was about to start a thread, too ... Hoping all is well. . __________________ - Oh God! They're all over the place! CRASH DIVE!!! - Ehm... we can't honey. We're in the car right now. - What?... er right... Doesn't matter! We'll give it a try anyway!

11-26-10, 09:02 AM	#5
G2B XO Join Date: May 2009 Location: Guam, I think Posts: 420 Downloads: 80 Uploads: 0	Maybe he sank another Essex class Hope he is alright. __________________

11-26-10, 02:18 PM	#7
Hitman Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 6,109 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 2	Same here, hope all is well. __________________ One day I will return to sea ...

11-27-10, 09:18 AM	#10
WernherVonTrapp Admiral Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Now, alot farther from NYC. Posts: 2,228 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	I like to be optimistic so, I'm sure he's OK. Still, I said a prayer for him, just in case. __________________ "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Miyamoto Musashi ------------------------------------------------------- "What is truth?" -Pontius Pilate

11-25-10, 06:03 PM	#2
subskipper53 Seaman Join Date: May 2010 Location: Running Silent, Running Deep Posts: 41 Downloads: 190 Uploads: 0	He's probably on patrol, ripping the Nips a new one in Tokyo Bay.

11-26-10, 03:26 AM	#4
Freiwillige The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phx. Az Posts: 1,458 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Yea it would be a shame to list him MIA in the Pacific or on eternal patrol That guy talked me through so many issues after coming from SHIII when I was so frustrated I was about to implode he took me under his wing (No pun intended.) and taught me to become a real skipper! Soon I was hooked and tearing up the Pacific all THX to RR. I hope he's alright.

11-26-10, 01:16 PM	#6
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	I hope all is well RR.

11-26-10, 02:48 PM	#8
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	Yea, I noticed he sort of vanished. Hopefully all is well.

11-26-10, 04:15 PM	#9
ShadowWolf Kell Medic Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 163 Downloads: 123 Uploads: 0	He might have vanaished with the SH5 debacle like others did. I'm guilty of that myself.

11-27-10, 09:50 AM	#11
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,383 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	His last login was Nov 22. __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

11-27-10, 01:48 PM	#12
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	*'d/i8,xre1jmh.50]z0p1\p[m9hm\90r'jsvw9=gw0;w7o0........stupid experimental squawk box there. Just surfaced for a quick airing out there. Been doing extended submergence trials with some nasty air scrubbing chemicals I can't talk about. Actually, real life and unemployment has been intruding on my normal lifestyle. Then I had muchas graphics card problems with my EVGA 7900GS and with a replacement EVGA GTS 250 I bought, putting me out of any computing at all for about a month. I don't know about EVGA. Not only did they walk away from their old lifetime warranty but they are enforcing their register in 30 days or forget any warranty clause. Methinks it's time to shop another company next time. They may have lost their mojo. Then after I fixed my video card problems I had a power failure while my computer was writing to the hard drive. It was complete software rebuild time as my backup was trash too. Fortunately I had a very recent Belarc report (makes duplicating your previous setup a piece of cake!) and an older backup that allowed me to restore just about every setting on the machine. So now it's time to get SH4 running again and get back in the swim here. Thanks for all the support, guys! I'm happy to say that reports of my demise were premature. Ubi's SH5 debacle aside, Subsim is still the greatest place on the Internet and remains unscathed! Thanks Neal. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

11-27-10, 02:43 PM	#13
Diopos Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Athens, the original one. Posts: 1,226 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	RR, good you're back... and don't worry, in these times, unemployment is a lifestyle! . __________________ - Oh God! They're all over the place! CRASH DIVE!!! - Ehm... we can't honey. We're in the car right now. - What?... er right... Doesn't matter! We'll give it a try anyway!

11-27-10, 03:03 PM	#14
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	Okay boys, let's carve the turkey!!

11-27-10, 03:14 PM	#15
Hitman Pacific Aces Dev Team Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 6,109 Downloads: 109 Uploads: 2	Bahh, so nothing serious happened to him ... just joking, I'm glad you are all right and it's only the stupid real life getting in the way!! But there have been in the past certain very strange vanishings of members that can only be explained with a tragedy and that is something very sad, because you learn to really appreciate some guys around here I'm thinking about Captain Cox __________________ One day I will return to sea ...