(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.
February 6th, 2008
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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.
February 1st, 2008
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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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December 19th, 2007
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If you’ve been wondering why you haven’t seen me at your local night club picking up ladies, it’s because I’ve been doing some research for the website (see picture, above).
After painstaking labor, I was able to ascertain that Liquid Egg Product is the 2,182,289th best website in the world. It would have cracked 2 millionth place if I were featured more frequently, more like 90% of the time.
And it would help if I got a raise, too.
Today is the last day to cast your vote for the 2007 Liquid Egg Product on the Face Award. Although everyone who was going to vote has done so already, I think. And the winner is an almost-certainty. Even so.
December 18th, 2007
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Hi, it’s the Mascot. I don’t know why I gotta do this, but I’m supposed to.
There are these 3 noobler chess blogs. They’re about chess. Just so you know. I think they’re boring, but I’m supposed to tell you chess people to check them out. Or something. I’m going to take a nap.
Gorckat, Drunknknight, and Chessaholic
December 6th, 2007
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It seems people on the blogroll are starting to develop an enemy/rival/pseudo-enemy with a cute nickname:
Samuraipawn: Evil Emperor
Castling Queenside: King Kong
Dinosaur Mom: Eeevil Seestor
Me: Sworn Enemy
There’s probably a few I’m forgetting as well. Who’s your enemy/rival/pseudo-enemy?
(By the way, a lot of comments I haven’t responded to yet. I’m getting to it.)
November 14th, 2007
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I’m going to have to go to one of those rotating blogrolls really soon.
Most of the chess bloggers may already be familiar with the newly added chess bloggers…coincidentally, these guys are all last alphabetically in the chess blog list. Patzer’s Corner sorta reminds me of chessloser. Samurai Pawn is the new Knights Errant secretary, so is supposed to be doing a good job. Tacticus Maximus is the originator of the Wilson Gambit and introduced me to the Moron Defense. Wahrheit has some serious chess introspection, as well being a contributor to Eternity Road.
Carson Sasser is a counterexample to my original hypothesis of 55+’ers not blogging. I have no clue how I found his site or why I keep going back. It was the first site I saw with the Thinking Blogger Award. (Incidentally, Carson, feel free to pick up a Worthless Blogger Award if you want it…)
Nor do I have any clue how I stumbled on Dinosaur Mom’s site. She apparently works for the government (a “federal wage slave”), so I briefly considered sticking her under the Enemies list. But it’s probably not her fault. [The Mascot says: Her avatar's hot! I think I'm going to ask it out!]
November 10th, 2007
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There’s this guy, Dan Zak, who articled for the Post about how to “Be More Than a Blip in the Blogosphere”. He has 10 tips, and I’ll just hit lightly on his insight. And I’ll add an 11th tip that was somehow ignored, but will be the biggest driver of traffic to your blog.
1. TELL STORIES RATHER THAN STICKING SOLELY TO LINKS OR PHOTOS. It’s the first one on his list, and I’m at a loss for a funny or sarcastic response. It’s probably the best advice the article gives.
2. CREATE A VOICE FOR YOURSELF. That’s what the Mascot was supposed to be for, but he’s not doing a very good job.
3. MAKE EVERYTHING EASY TO READ AND ACCESS. Actually, this is good advice too.
4. SIFT THROUGH BLOGROLLS AND CREATE YOUR OWN. Also known as the “I-read-your-site-could-you-please-read-mine” strategy.
5. WIDGET YOUR PAGE. Um, OK.
6. COMMENT EARLY AND OFTEN. Another “I-read-your-site-could-you-please-read-mine” strategy. Wonderful.
7. PRAY FOR A LINK FROM THE BIG BOYS. Yeah, that’s a good plan.
8. NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR AWARDS. I gave myself the Worthless Blogger Award. But I don’t see nobody taking me to Chick-fil-A.
9. POST WITH VERVE AND CONSISTENCY. Sounds like a Silmanism. (One of Silman’s books actually used the word “verve”, which is one of those words people know the definition of, but don’t actually use in real life.)
10. JOIN THE CROWD. Boy, Mr. Zak is really into this beg for traffic stuff.
All these tips are a drop in the bucket compared to my findings:
11. HAVE POSTS SOLELY DEDICATED TO PICTURES OF HOT CHICKS. Remember how I mentioned there was a spike in traffic after Hot and Allegedly Hot Female Day? Well, it’s actually a plateau now. The weird part is that the most popular picture is an older one done a while back of a woman in a bathing suit standing in a snowy forest. [The Mascot says: That means you need to make more images of women wearing bathing suits engaged in illogical environments! Like arguing in front of the Supreme Court or swimming in volcanic lava.]
November 3rd, 2007
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The praises for Liquid Egg Product continue to roll in…
There was merrily!
I is pleasantly amazed! Thank!!!
This simply prodigy!
The Regard! The Excellent forum! Thank you!
The Good lad an author! I much like site!
Like! Thank you!
The Pleasing text and design!
Pretty nice forum, wants to see much more on it!
I simply mad about this forum!
And my favorite…
Forgive that beside You was little ed!
Despite the flattering recommendations, I have decided not to display their advertisements for cialis, payday loans online, and WoW gold.
October 25th, 2007
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There was a 50% increase in unique visitors on Hot and Allegedly Hot Female Day over October’s average.
[The Mascot says: I told you so.]
October 24th, 2007
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