Yes, “Hiatus” still means hiatus

Posted on Sunday February 27, 2005Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

You know what?
I think WHUZZUPDATE is going to be switched to Plain text email in the next one.

I just found out my subscribing function has been busted for the last month (you have to confirm, but you can’t confirm if you don’t get the damn confirmation email, can you?). While testing it, the HTML mail automatically registers as “spam”. I send out an html mail “thank you” with the E-Cards…. and don’t have this problem. GAH!!!!!

So, I send out my latest newsletter, titled “I (heart) my cat, I (spade) my dog“. Basically explaining why my last post has the word “hiatus” in it. Long time CyberPals know that’s a codeword for something.

Even the plain text emails are ending up in my Yahoo Bulk Mail folder… ARRRRGH!!!!!

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I’m going to bed….

Taking a hiatus…

Posted on Friday February 18, 2005Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Starting Tuesday, I re-emerge back into the workforce (don’t expect me to even mention it any more online, as many aspects of my life are now staying private.)

Finally bit the bullet and bought The DaVinci Code today. I’ve heard so much about it…. I’ll post a review when I’m done, k?

Update: : 1:39PM. Just finished the book. WOW.
Recommended reading if you’re a history buff/intellectual/conspiracy theorist (or all of the above)….

Peace on Earth, Good will to all

Posted on Friday December 24, 2004Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Have yourself a Randi little Christmas As much as I’d love to go to everyone’s site and leave a comment… I know I won’t have the time.

Have a Merry Christmas, everyone.

Contrary to the latest rubbish by Bill “Phone Sex” O’Reilly…. Christmas is not under attack by anyone. I can name plenty of atheists and non-Christians on the right as I can on the left… so please take your self-imagined persecution and go and ruin someone else’s holiday, ok?

Christmas is in my heart… not on some nativity scene in my neighbor’s lawn or in front of a courthouse.

It’s not about how much is under your tree.
It’s not about how many cards you get.
It’s not about politics.

It’s about love, charity, good cheer and togetherness.
It supercedes all religions and all races.
It’s about giving and caring for those less fortunate than me.
It’s about magic and children’s faces lighting up with surprise and joy.

It’s about Peace on Earth… Good will to all.
And it’s all good.
-=e=-

Turkey day (aka WWF family smackdown)

Posted on Saturday November 27, 2004Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Oh Lordy, did Carole out-do herself this year. Cooking for nine, prepared for unexpected guests… and we’re STILL going to be taking Turkey/Pumpkin Pie variations to lunch with us for the next week or so. I hope you guys had a great one too.

I was tempted to invite you guys online over!

I’ve been spending a lot of my time behind the scenes fixing things on the site, re-writing scripts and cleaning things up for a server move (are you as sick of this site’s downtime as much as I am?)

A lot of restructuring in my life right now, I just turned a corner in my life and I jotted it all down in SoApBoX: Desire… and giving Thanks

Anybody know any good retro sites?

Posted on Monday November 8, 2004Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

I redid my design section in MySQL. The really cool part of it is the ability to turn the “display” on and off. I have a ton of work-related sites I can’t quite SHOW right now.

(If you recall, I was damn near …[explanation has gone bye-bye. If you missed it, oh well. Some things are more important than your entertainment, chuckles…]) Kinda going for an Archies/Lil' rascals thing here...

Aaaanyway… I got the “Redesign Bug” going on.
My new skin (Yes, the site is skinnable) is going to be a 1965 version of my site.

My four “spokescharacters” (Counterclockwise FROM top: CyberPal, Stress-Man, Bozilla the Clown and Randi) are all going to be kids. I drew rough sketches (Yes, with a pencil! I remembered how to use one!) last night.
CyberPal is going to have a Beatles suit
Stress-Man is going to have coke-bottle glasses and buck teeth. Kinda like the “Jughead” to CyberPal’s “Archie”… or the “Alfalfa/Spanky” axis, if you will (Yes, I know the Little Rascals are FROM the ’30’s, shut the fuck up… the younger kids don’t know that!)
The site will be ENTIRELY in black and white, of course. TV wasn’t in color until 1966, because there WAS no color in 1965, I guess.

So… are there any good Retro sites you guys can recommend for inspiration? Any ideas? Trends? Wanna contribute clip art?

(My popup announcing something is a satire is a good example of what I’m gunning for here…)

An idea so dumb it HAS to work

Posted on Wednesday October 13, 2004Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

I just had another one of my hairbrained schemes come INTO mind.

A Cyber Chinese Auction.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with the concept. (In the Poconos they’re called a “Tricky Tray”) part raffle/part auction. You buy a certain number of raffle tickets. There’s a wide variety of items up for bid. You bid on items by putting as many raffle tickets on items as you want, and the winner is drawn (so, theoretically, the more tickets on an item, the better your chances of winning.)

So here’s what I’m thinking:

Running a Chinese Auction online for REAL prizes
Sign up for an account and get five “virtual” tickets to start
Buy additional tickets with PayPal
We all pitch in items or services to be raffled (I can throw in my “Lotsa Fonts!” CD, Carole’s Chocolate Houses go over REALLY big in Auctions for our kid’s schools. You can also offer a site redesign… stuff like that)
We choose different charities for each event
Lots of publicity for people donating

What do you think? What would you like to see in something like this? How do you see it working?

B.B. King: The thrill ain’t gone!

Posted on Saturday September 4, 2004Friday May 15, 2015 by Eric Brooks

You didn’t go last night, did you?
Damn, you missed a SHOW and a half!
One more reason you all need to come up to the Poconos and visit me!

Me & Randi
We had a perfect spot on the lawn, where we laid out blankets and listened under the stars to some of the best Blues, Jazz & Rock & Roll artists on the planet.

(Sorry, I know I promised my tens of fans a team up of B.B., Lucille, me & Randi… but I am TROOLY not worthy to be on the same stage as that man. Maybe in, like, 150 years or so, ok? Besides I have “Mr. Mom” detail this week, as I am off on vacation, so Carole, Christina and Ashley can work the shows and hang with all the artists. So I have little ones.).
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I’m not dead. No, really.

Posted on Monday August 9, 2004Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

For a guy whose slogan is “Only the coroner will know for sure”, you can bet your bippy it must be bad when I beg for a doctor’s appointment.

About two weeks ago I damn near collapsed. I come home & I can’t see straight and all of the caffeine pills in the world aren’t helping. Hence, my moreso-than-usual preoccupation with death, lately.

Well, I finally got the results FROM the tests at the hospital.

Are you sitting down?
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Putting the ‘FUN’ back in ‘FUNerals’

Posted on Tuesday July 27, 2004Wednesday June 28, 2023 by Eric Brooks

Let me just interject some thoughts before giving Witchy back the stage again (isn’t she a great writer?).

I had to go to a wake yesterday (not the soldier FROM Iraq, this one is a friend’s mother… since it comes in threes, most people at work wouldn’t be surprised if I’m going to be #3, so it all has me thinking about my own mortality, and why I keep seeing the Reaper every time I go to the convenience store for a soda refill & cigarettes.).

So after work, I’m picked up where we immediately drive to California* to the wake.
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Pain is Beauty

Posted on Monday July 19, 2004Sunday June 5, 2011 by Eric Brooks

Man, I hate shaving.
People think I use a cheese grater.

What the hell was I thinking back when I was 14?
“OOH! I can’t wait till I’m a grown up and I can grow a beard! Hell, Some Spanish girls on the block already have mustaches… and they’re only 11!”

“I’m gonna lather my face up, I’ll shave… and then splash my face with Aqua Velva and scream like that kid FROM Home Alone*.”

(*Yes. Home Alone came out 10 years later. I’m a prophet and can see the future. Don’t question me.)

Tonight, I decided to take a shortcut… I put Nair on my face. Just the parts around the goatee that I normally slice up and bleed like Charles Manson was my barber.

HOLY FUCKING S#!T MOTHER OF JEBUS!!!!!! I HAVE 15TH DEGREE BURNS!!!!
I turn to the side and I can see parts of my exposed jawbone!

How many of you women come to this site… and NONE of you can warn me that Nair burns like hell???? The smell of burning flesh took me back to when I had my hair permed at 19 (Don’t ask. It was 1984. My friends all had Jhericurls back then, ok?).

UPDATE It’s an hour later… I’m loaded on morphine, and I feel a little better.
Just one question…

How long until I stop looking like I just walked through an Apache line of gay guys bitchslapping me? I can’t go to work like this??!!??

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