Spring Break
I’m taking a Spring Break vacation. Here’s the note I left for Donnie; I’m sure he couldn’t be bothered to let you know about what was going on.
Love you all–I’ll be back on the 28th!
Egg Benedict
The Mascot has gone over to BDK. Or taken him hostage. Or something. Guess I should have given him that raise.
Good riddance; I don’t need him.
The legendary Blue Devil Knight is leaving the blogosphere really soon, at least for now. (”Legendary” should be understood in context, in as much as it is possible to call a personal chess blog a legend.) I was unfortunate to have caught him only during the last third of his time on the net. He held the reins of the Secretary Knight for some time and turned his site into a nexus of chess information and improvement for the Knights Errant and passing patzers alike.
The website wasn’t without controversy. Critics universally panned his decision to get rid of his spinning head.
BDK, we at LEP wish you the best in your future endeavors.
And the black glove was a nice touch.
Alex Chiu update
Several months ago, I had some requests to try to interview Alex Chiu, famous for being the creator of immortality rings. They let you live forever, or at least not age. I e-mailed him recently to see if he would deign to take his time for a small potato blog such as this one.
One thing I don’t want to do is ask a bunch of questions that could be answered by reading his website. There’s no point in that. While I have a couple questions in mind, it’s not enough for a decent interview.
What would you want to ask Alex Chiu?
UPDATE: He has agreed to an interview.
YES, YES, YES! My life is complete!
Please don’t comment on l3rucewayne’s blog
I’m at my best on l3rucewayne’s site today, in the Recent Comments list. If no one else ever comments on his site, it’ll show me in a tux forever!
LEP is the 2nd to 5th best website in the world
Want proof?
Do an image search in Google for “best website in the world” (without the quotes so it looks more impressive) Or just click here. Depending on Google’s temperment, a picture of me will show up 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th.
Finally, getting the recognition I deserve.
Updating the blogroll
Well, it looks like there’s some more chess bloggers hanging around. Per the Boss, I’m not allowed to say these other blogs are boring and/or sucky (whether or not it’s true), so here’s the scoop.
There’s this Aussie who handles the Lousy@Chess site. He’s made the lame excuse that he’s not awake the same time as everyone else so he can’t play in the Tournament of Lepers. He’s trying to give chessloser and Blunderprone a run for their money at the most self-denigrating name.
Then there’s this Brazilian dude “Sir Augusto” who’s been excited about being a Knight Errant “Inside the black & white jungle”. It hasn’t been updated for a while, so he’s probably too busy chopping down the rainforest or whatever it is they do in their spare time in Brazil.
Samurai Pawn has committed seppuku, completely taking down his site. But it’s not like chess bloggers aren’t a dime a dozen. So to replace him, The Knights of Castle Kimbark by some guy named Tom is noted. It’s not like Castle Kimbark is a real place, so I don’t really get it. Maybe it’s like Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
How you got here
Searches used to stumble onto LEP recently:
- chavez using drugs on tv
- what does it mean when a testical goes into the stomach
- “scot pollard” 2008 pic club
- rpgle number divisible by 10
- does liquid rotton a egg
- superbowl winners determined by an egg
- image in woman piece super the one which
Liquid Egg Reassembler
(The post name was 100% inspired by the Reassembler post on this, Cross-blog pollination.)
We did a programmer’s pre-nup, an idea of Reassembler spawn to be something like his brillant* chessplayer’s pre-nup.
So how did this come about?
1. Derek had to bug me to check my e-mail.
2. Agreed a programmer’s pre-nup would be a keen idea.
3. Two or three weeks later, I finally sent some decent ideas.
4. Derek had to bug me to check my e-mail.
5. Looked at his BASIC code; looked fine. Sent my assembly code.
6. Derek had to bug me to check my e-mail.
7. Told Derek whatever he put for my bio should be fine.
8. Still have to check my e-mail.
* Here’s looking at you, Paula. (At least one reader knows the reference. He may be the only one.)
What’s in a name?
Please note: I haven’t checked e-mail in about three weeks, partly because I can’t be on my usual e-mail checking machine. I’ll try to get to it this weekend. Now that’s out of the way…
Rocky Rook was curious about this site’s tagline, the Shawn Bradley of Weblogs. I’m going to try to make this as un-boring as possible, because it’s not that good of a story come to think of it.
For reference, I have inserted a picture of Shawn Bradley below. (He’s the dunkee, not the dunker.)
The first incarnation of this site was back in late 2006. The name “Liquid Egg Product” came from the cartons of…substance…that McDonald’s uses for some of their egg-containing breakfasts. (I’m forever grateful to the McD’s employee who thought it was a good idea to set the carton close enough to the counter that the customers could read it.) Since blogs are “supposed” to have a tagline, and I was pretty sure the blog would be filled with all sorts of foolishness, the tagline became “The Ronald McDonald of Weblogs”.
My web host accidentally destroyed my database in May 2007, so down went that site. I switched to WordPress, and decided to change the tagline. Why?
Mainly because of Dan LeBatard, who hosts a sports talk radio show that is often unbelievably dumb and inane (which I admit, will occasionally listen to and enjoy). One of his promos has him as McDan McLeBatard hosting “the Ronald McDonald of radio shows” or something like that.
There’s no way I was going to have the same tagline as him.
Shawn Bradley fit very well because he’s:
- white
- skinny
- awkward
- mediocre
- not very tough
- easily mockable
- only plays basketball effectively if everyone else is shorter
All of which describe either me as a person or this website (usually both).
I want to hear about how some of you came up with your names (in some cases, what the deuce do they mean?). Where does gorckat come from? Wahrheit sounds German for something-or-the-other. And we never got an explanation about the now defunct ookweb… whatever the deuce it was. And so forth.
Your winner!
Congratulations to Judge Roy Pearson for winning the first ever Liquid Egg Product on the Face Award!
Judge Pearson and Senator Craig were the frontrunners, as I more or less expected. What I didn’t expect is the judge to jump out to such a large lead, and it looked like a blowout at first. But Senator Craig slowly crept back into contention, and Scot Pollard made a surprising charge in the end to tie with the congressman for second place.
As promised, I will attempt to contact the ex-judge and let him know of his victory. What a perfect Christmas gift.
The 2007 Liquid Egg Product on the Face Award winner should be…
- Judge Roy L. Pearson: $67 million lawsuit for lost pair of pants (37%)
- Senator Larry Craig: requested gay sex in public restroom (26%)
- Scot Pollard: told kids to use drugs on TV (26%)
- Duane “Dog” Chapman: called son’s gf a n*****; son leaked tape (5%)
- Jonathan Ogden: “dances” in auto insurance commercial (5%)
- Christopher Emmeroy: disrespected bank robber (0%)
Total Votes: 19
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