Robert Shick was born in Derry, New Hampshire, 87 years after Robert Frost originally moved there in 1900.  Eight years after that, he immigrated to New Jersey and did some growing up there.  He graduated from Susquehanna University with a BA in both Creative Writing and German.  He did a stint in North Carolina as a German interpreter for a company whose primary interest in Germans was their poop. Currently, he is working as a graphic artist for Therapeutic Resources in NYC while hocking handmade LEGO jewelry online and picking up the occasional handyman job on the side.

Rob has many disparate interests, the most obscure of which is vexillology, or the study of flags.  He fancies himself an amateur vixillographer, to wit he has designed a personal flag among many others, and is currently engaged in a project to recreate US state flags that currently feature nothing more distinctive than their respective state’s seal.

When he isn’t writing, speaking German, or designing flags, Rob enjoys a good film, a good book, a good shave, photography, graphic design, bicycling, geocaching, eighties post-apocalyptic/dystopian sci-fi noir, 80-cent bowling night, and the occasional backyard bonfire.  Rob is a recovering Dream Theater fan with a Rush problem, has been in and out of rehab for The Clash, and is currently in the heat of a love affair with Otis Taylor.  He was once the drummer for a one-gig Blues Brothers band and for a three-or-four-gig prog rock band subtly titled Axiom Addict.

Rob64.com most likely got its start in 1999 or 2000 as a primitive Angelfire site and became a domain in its own right around 2004.  Once a website for the sake of having a website, it now serves as Rob’s personal online portfolio and blog.  Some older versions of the site can be experienced on the miscellany page.  The name comes from an early screen name, which in turn comes from a robot character (pictured) in the video game StarFox 64, which remains one of the best games of all time.