Category: Site Updates

Some new developments on the EricBrooks.Com site & stuff.

Protecting the brand

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While revamping my Daily Carlinisms, I stumbled on this at George Carlin.Com:

“…Floating around the Internet these days, posted and e-mailed back and forth, are a number of writings attributed to me, and I want people to know they’re not mine. Don’t blame me.“

Right now, he’s doing what we in marketing call “protecting his brand”. A “brand” is an abstract concept that invokes trust and reputation. This is why someone will buy Tylenol instead of the big-ass bottle of acetaminophen next to it, at half the price.

When you think of the name “George Carlin”, a certain level of quality in comedy comes to mind (Another good example is “Microsoft”).

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Turkey day (aka WWF family smackdown)

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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?

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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…)

Have you seen my friend, Sam Hain?

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Wow… October passing and nothing horrible happened to my family for the second year in a row. Friggin’ A!

If you don’t see anything different with this page… then I did my job! I made the switch FROM MT to WordPress last night…

….and OH HOW I LOVE IT AND ALL IT’S FLEXIBLE DATABASEY GOODNESS!

It must be permanent, as I have put up every single post I’ve ever made since April 1998. Ironically, my very first post was titled “WHUZZUP!” (In case you’re ever on Jeopardy and that’s the question.)

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Happy Birthday, Bitch!

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Another one of those no-comment posty-thingys….

That’s so you can head on over and wish the Anti-Social Bitch a HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Or…Send her an E-Card (I couldn’t make that any easier unless I sent the damn card out FOR you.)

50 greetings or more and Ms. ASB has promised to send me pics of herself in her birthday suit! Of course I’m not supposed to pass them around…

… but you’d think some people should know me better by now. :0)

Sorry, can’t resist

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“One thing is for certain, though, about me, and the world has learned this: When I say something, I mean it. And the credibility of the United States is incredibly important for keeping world peace and freedom.”

– President Bush – 04/13/04

Hoo boy.

  • Trust, Don’t Verify – Bush’s incredible definition of credibility (Slate)
  • Read it already, George (Reverend Mykeru)
  • And for the “Bush inherited the recession” crowd, Blunted on Reality offers rock-solid proof the recession began in March 2001 (A little after Slick Willie’s reign).

It’s not been a good week, has it?
As Robin Williams once said: “Reality, what a concept!”

Personally, I never touch the stuff.

That the best you got???

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It appears some naughty little monkey or two has been HAVING fun in my Guestbook. In the past week or so, I’ve had to DELETE several hundred entries where they just keep pressing “submit”.

I figure it’s more than one because every 2nd or third IP address is the same (yes, I have your IP’s. Read the source code on the Guestbook page, Sherlock.).

Of course since I have an enemy list 2 miles wide I won’t speculate, and I never bothered to run trace routes on your lame ass. I put in a few safeguards, and quite frankly you barely register on my radar as a “nuisance”.

Perhaps if I’m bored one day, I may hunt you down and suck your eyeballs out.
No promises.

I just wanted to use this as an excuse to mention my Guestbook, and I’ll be bringing back the “Guestbook FROM Heaven/Hell” real soon.

I may rig it so the screen explodes in a spammer’s face.
If only I can stop giggling at that thought long enough to write the code.

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