Dead Rooster Rises from the Grave
As many of you have noticed, I’ve been pretty scarce around here for the past two weeks. February is the busiest time of year here at the Dead Rooster Mansion, and I was just so overwhelmed I couldn’t keep up with the blog.
The main reason for my absence, as I’m sure you have figured out by now, is that February contains Valentine’s Day, and love is what Dead Rooster is all about.
I always try to answer each-and-every one of the over-eight-million valentine cards I receive each year, but as you can imagine, it is just impossible to do by myself; so this year, I enlisted the help of several out-of-work female supermodels, which, surprisingly, turned out to be more of a distraction than the valentine cards.
Seriously, though, February is just insane in the hot air balloon industry. On Saturday alone we flew 26 people! Lot’s of proposal flights including one at night which turns out to not be such a great idea because the girl couldn’t see the proposal sign in the dark – we had to fly the balloon super close to the ground and hit the burner to light it up!
Another distraction for me these past couple of weeks is that I’ve discovered Twitter. Before I go any further, I’ve got to send out some thanks to my friend, Bradley at Outside My Brain for getting me started and sending me a few followers. Thanks buddy! I really appreciate it!
I’m addicted to Twitter. There’s just no other way to say it. I can’t stop playing around with it. I’ve been pretty exhausted with all the hot air balloon flights recently, but I always seem to have enough energy to bang out simple comments (Twitter only allows 140-characters per comment, so you CAN’T get carried away with any single comment).
One interesting gadget I found for use with Twitter is TweetDeck. It filters your follower’s tweets into several columns. Mine has three columns: One displays ALL tweets; one shows only tweets directed at me specifically (such as replies); and one column shows only privately sent Direct Messages.
TweetDeck also lets you shorten urls right in the application eliminating the need to load up TinyUrl, etc. when you want to add one to your tweets. It’s a real timesaver.
Check out TweetDeck here.
If any of you are brave enough, and can stomach my periodic flirting with some of the hotties on there, I’d be honored if you’d follow me on twitter (I always follow back). Aside from the occasional flirt, I try to tweet interesting stuff on there once in a while as well.
Well, that’s about the gist of it for now; I’ll try and stay more active on here in the future. Thanks, dear reader, for not deserting me during my momentary laps of blogging!
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Only Three Columns ?!
I’ve got SIX yo !
One column is for friends whose updates I’d hate to miss. (You are not in it)
Another one is for a Bra and her friends who love to chatter away (You are not in it)
And one column is dedicate to tweets that I send. (You, of course are not in it either). Yea I am weird that way.
Glad you are enjoying Twitter. Welcome !
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William McCamment
reply on February 17th, 2009 3:31 pm:
I am not in your important update list? Are you CRAZY?
Having just discovered the “group” feature, I have just upgraded to FOUR columns!
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bloggers are like homing pigeons, they always return. well, unless you’re savagely attacked by hungry supermodels or something even more predatory!
glad you’re on Twitter!
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William McCamment
reply on February 17th, 2009 7:11 pm:
Attacked by Supermodels. I like it.
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This is my first visit..nice blog thanks for visiting our site.
Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com
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William McCamment
reply on February 17th, 2009 7:11 pm:
Thanks for stopping by.
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OK I’m following. And I am even downloading TweetDeck. Sheesh what a namby-pamby follower I am. I need some guts.
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William McCamment
reply on February 18th, 2009 7:50 am:
Thanks for following.
TweetDeck is REALLY cool. You can set up a column with only your favorite twitterites and filter out all the marketers.
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Sounds like you’re single-handedly keeping the economy going over there. I’m glad to help feed your new Twitter addiction and honored to have been your first follower. Have you discovered Mr. Tweet? It’s a great application. http://mrtweet.net/
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William McCamment
reply on February 18th, 2009 7:55 am:
I’m checking out Mr. Tweet now. It looks like it will help get followers but I’m not advanced enough to know what it would really do for me. I’ll probably come back to it after a few more days of learning twitter.
I am honored to have you as my first follower!
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Glad to see you back! I have no idea how Twitter works,and I think I’m going to keep it that way. I have too much of an addictive personality. I know I’d get hooked. They haven’t developed a treatment program for Twitter addicts yet,have they?
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William McCamment
reply on February 18th, 2009 7:56 am:
Don’t be chicken! Get on there! Help feed MY addictive personality!
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I can’t think of anything better than to follow you on Twitter. Alright, maybe I can, but it will be fun to read what you tweet.
Oh! I started a contest on my site where I’m giving 10k in EC credits to one person. Details are on my site if you’d like to enter.
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William McCamment
reply on February 18th, 2009 9:56 am:
Talk about rising from the grave! Where have you been lately?
Thanks for following — I’m following you back!
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Definitely nice to have you around on Twitter! Say, with all of those hot air balloon proposals, have you ever done any hot air balloon “it’s over” events? Because the full-circleness of it all would be, well, funny.
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William McCamment
reply on February 18th, 2009 12:00 pm:
There was one “I want a divorce” flight, but unfortunately, I wasn’t involved with that one. I thought it was funny too!
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TweetDeck is awesome! I have a whole group just for cats. Now you need to sign up for “Qwitter” so you can see when someone stops following you and after which Tweet. Or maybe not. Sometimes, it makes me sad.
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William McCamment
reply on February 18th, 2009 12:01 pm:
I use SocialToo and they send a daily update as to who followed and who stopped following. It automatically follows those that follow and automatically dump the quitters. Pretty cool.
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Welsome back Rooster!
Be careful with Twitter. Actor Stephen Fry is so addicted to Twitter I am fearful for his career…
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William McCamment
reply on February 18th, 2009 12:02 pm:
LOL I believe it. It’s hard to stop twittering all day!
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William,
I appreciate the mention in your post. I enjoy seeing people get started on Twitter. Yes, it is quite amazing how addicting it is. I think it is the same psychology as mini-bite cookies. I think we end up eating more of them because they are smaller. Go figure.
Thanks,
Bradley
@OutsideMyBrain
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William McCamment
reply on February 19th, 2009 5:15 am:
Thanks again for all your help, Bradley. If tweets were mini-bite cookies, I’d have already went-off like the restaurant guy in “Meaning of Life”
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But I do like the program TweetDeck. It is very easy to use and quite affordable.
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William McCamment
reply on February 19th, 2009 5:16 am:
No one could argue that it isn’t VERY affordable.
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Hi William, just found your blog the other day (not sure how). Great stuff here, I started using the TweetDeck and what a difference it makes organizing tweets. Thanks for the recommendation.
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William McCamment
reply on February 20th, 2009 7:24 am:
You’re welcome! And, thanks for finding me!
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Sure baby, I know the REAL reason why you never blog anymore….
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William McCamment
reply on February 20th, 2009 7:26 am:
You don’t know how close I came to writing a post professing my love for you in great detail. You are right, of course. YOU are the real reason.
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hatingtherain
reply on February 20th, 2009 7:30 am:
I love you baby
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I’m only glad that you are safely on the ground where an old rooster should be!!! Now, back to work servicing those damned hens will ya?!
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William McCamment
reply on February 22nd, 2009 2:03 pm:
LOL Righty-O raider!
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Hey William
Stopping by the site is looking better and better, you must of been doing a little studying to make your own link back to yourself no follow thats a good move and I need to do it myself.I’m rolling the dice and following every link guess there will be a update around St Patty’s day I’m guessing and I’m guessing you’ll see that 6 finally.
Stumbled enjoy your day
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William McCamment
reply on February 22nd, 2009 2:05 pm:
Interesting. I didn’t do ANYTHING. It must be the newest WP upgrade; either that, or it’s the latest All-in-one SEO plugin upgrade.
Thanks for your stumbles and other help John — I really appreciate it.
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I have missed you my mouldering friend. I was afraid you finally rotted or something. I am so glad you are on twitter, and I love tweetdeck. I also use tweetlater. I will find you when I get home from work.
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I have the stigmata. Do you have any scrolls you need translated?
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Just remember, that face your flirting with… may not look at all like that picture you’re looking at! Not that anyone on the internet would be dishonest. I’m just saying… lol!
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LOL just digging an old post.
Belated Happy Valentines Day.
BTW I don’t see ya in twitter these days.. where are ya
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William McCamment
reply on April 5th, 2009 5:53 am:
Hi Dosox! I’m still around. LOL
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