About Pandapolis

> > welcome to pandapolis

You have just gone beyond the outer limits of the last website you surfed and have crash landed into Pandapolis, where pandas live in peace. Some say this is really the personal website of some guy named Rich Rodriguez using a cutesy panda motif, but that's what THEY—the pandas—want you to believe.

The pandas are in control. You will eat bamboo and like it. Resistance is futile.

Pandapolis has a new section called Gadgets showing off my tech skills in web design and retrocomputing. It has web page templates I have designed for actual sites and programs I have developed or modified for the classic Atari 2600 gaming console and Radio Shack MC-10 home computer. There are also links to emulators, which allow you to operate the console's operating systems on your Windows PC.

So you're now asking, "I understand the Atari, but why a Radio Shack computer?" Because I want to Do Stuff, that's why. Read the MC-10 page for the real reason.

> > the silly truth

And to avoid any confusion, I'm not that PBS guy who writes essays and books. I'm a Southern California guy who creates websites and animates pandas. He's Richard, I'm Rich. That's my picture, not his. Do I look like him? No. Of course I don't. Rich good, fire bad. Hulk smash! Like, ewwww, baby. (Thanks for letting me rant outside of my blog.)

Now back to why there are pandas at Pandapolis. The pandas help me in displaying my artwork, animated movies, slideshows, blog, and music, and in return I give them a weekly bamboo and carrot allowance. It's a symbiotic relationship, you see.

If you want to email me about the site, my portfolio or send Chauncey some fan mail, you can reach both of us at pandapolis@yahoo.com.

Welcome to Pandapolis. I hope you have a bear of a time.

Rich Rodriguez

This site was last updated on July 9, 2008.