Posting from Flickr, originally uploaded by alienmeatsack.

Did you know that you can post to the Hoop via your Flickr account?

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Hey all. In order to make life easier for us Hoopees on the go, I suggest you check out the way cool free service called Jott.

Available at Jott.com, this wonderful place lets you setup an account that gives you the power to send emails and make posts to many blogs etc with your phone.

I use it to send myself emails from the car and it can’t be any easier. Well, it could if it were magic.

When your account is setup and you have contacts and blogs setup, you just call the phone numer they provide, tell it who to email or blog to, and then leave your message.

The service then records this, transcribes it to the best of its ability and then emails/blogs for you. Couldn’t be simpler!

Note that it does not do vulgarity transcribing but will leave the voice message in tact for the person to hear your sailor trash talk. It does not do super long messages, so you might have to do it in several sessions.

But ultimately it rocks with its socks out.

If any of you wish to use it with Hoopee, contact me and I will give you the info you need to setup a Jott blog link from their site.

Hey all. The site’s slowly gaining back some traffic. Not much content outside of my own poasts and the occassional extra post from some of our fellow Hoopeeans. Hoping that will change over time.

Most of our traffic seems to be from sites who harvest our content for their own uses. The hottie pics I’ve been poasting seem to be a major part of this. At least I had the decency to pull the images I posted from their original hosts and host them here. Flickr is the only except to this, since they offer a good service, I try and use their blogging tool to poast photos I get from there to here.

While looking through our stats, I came across this and thought it was funny. Some of the things people will search Google/Yahoo/etc for that links to us are down right silly.

I mean,  sure, some of these I get… but “girls pee and poop in panties”? lol.

I guess due to the idiots using our bandwidth and our photos, I will be limiting the hotties I put on here. And besides, I don’t want Hoopee to become just a place to come look at hotties. The old Hoop was about content, mostly original, funny  and sometimes ranting content. That is what I want this to be, to continue the tradition of what Hoopee is all about.

And, just in case, if any of you find yourself here because I have used a photo of yours, please let me know if I need to pull it. I don’t steal, I only use. And usually link back to the site it came from if I can find it. :)

I would love to see more old school Hoopeeans here, and new folks. Hoopee thrives when you contribute your thoughts, silly images, whatever. So get to joining and posting folks. It puts hair on your chest. Except in the case of the ladies, where hairy chests are not desired.

Hoopee really is a miracle drug.

Dear Hoopeeans,

Some of you are stupid. Yes, stupid. Why? Because you are not signed up to be a part of Internet history. Hoopee IS part of that history and you deny yourselves this wonderful connection. Why would you do this?

You see, here at Hoopee, we believe in the moment, now, here, the fizz, the reality, the boobie, the sex, the beer, the weed, the whatever the fuck you are doing at this moment. NOW is the important time. NOW is the time you would think of and should think of being in existance.

Stop with your bullshit.
Stop with your job and life.
Come and see us. Join us. Add to us.

If you do not, we will trace you down, trap you, cook you slowly, and eat you with a side of rice and some steamed veggies.

Why do we feel so adimantly about this? Because we fucking CARE about you. We care about your stupid lives and your pathetic bullshit.

“You are all losery doodieheads!” you say. Well it is JUST NOT TRUE. Because we have something special here at Hoopee that other sites just do not have.

We have a dimented 39 year old man who needs to cling onto things past. And that makes Hoopee strong.

Besides, we have hotties, rants, and the occassional rant.

You might be able to find this somewhere else, but why look when you know Hoopee is your motherinternet and AMS is your father.

Welcome children to your home.

Don’t believe it? Click on thru to the other side motherbitches.

ams
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Yo my peeps! Another update given you the 411 on the Hoop’s hot sexy stylee.

TripleDuck and I (aka he did the work, I said thank you) have implemented a new coolee for your comments and poasts, ‘Shoutouts’.

For those of you familiar with the existing formatting tags to place images, bold text, etc, they work much the same. For now, we have the following available…

Darth Vader (shoutout name: vader):

I totally owned those stupid Rebels, hahah!

Beer Talk (shoutout name: beer):

Dood, I am soooo wasted.

Quoter (shoutout name: quoter):

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Flower Power (shoutout name: flower):

This is like teh ghey.

Ronald (shoutout name: ronald):

Hey Kids! Fast Food is GOOD for you!

CarrotTop (shoutout name: ctop):

WTF happened to my career?

Mel (shoutout name: mel):

WTF happened to _my_ career?

Mel Too (shoutout name: mel2):

Ask our crazy f*cking Dad, wifebeater. ;)

and

2 forms of Spoilers for when you wanna talk about a movie or show and don’t wanna ruin it for others.
Standard spoiler (shoutout name: spoiler):
Spoiler alert! (highlight to read spoiler)
Darth Vader is Luke’s father.
and Spoiler TD (shoutout name: spoiler_td):
TripleDuck likes to look at naked pictures of animals.(highlight to read spoiler)

These are available in a pop-up in the comments form, and should hopefully be part of the Write a Post page soon. Until then, simply enclose your shoutout name in a set of brackets and close it with a set of brackets with a close slash in them like this:

That is all. Back to work with you!

We’ve added a series of publicly available avatars for those of you who want to use an avatar, but don’t have one of your own to use. If you click on the ‘My Profile‘ link and then click ‘Choose Public Avatar‘, you’ll have a whole smorgasbord of goodness to choose from. The selection process does require javascript.

Also, I think I peed my pants a little.

Waddup bitches and sluts. The powers that be have been hammering away at this beast dilligently. As you may notice, little things are changing here and there as well add new features and such. Little did we know that the beastie called “Hoopee.com” would consume our free time so heavily to get it up and running in stylee. :)

We have finished up the Random Quote system, so anyone logged in can add their own quotes. Old school hoopeeans will remember these as “Missions from God”.

Currently working on the Avatar system now. As it stands, you can add your own avatar no problem. But, we wanted more than just that. So we are working on adding our own library of special avatars for you to choose from as well.

Next up, not sure really… But, here are some things I personally would like to do something about:

• I’d like to add in a tagging system. I like those little tag cloud thingies I see on other sites.
•  More aggressive promotion of the site. I need to get folks attention again that the Hoop is alive and kicking. How do you feel about link graphics and such on sites? Annoying? helpful? Do you put them on your site?

It’s Thursday, do you know where your beer is?

Here’s a little blast from the past. This was the Hoopee in 2000-2001:

The time has come. The moment is finally here. Hoopee.com Rebirth is now live! You should be seeing this instead of my under-construction message.

I realize there are some issues, and I hope you will bare with me until I get everything totally working.

Issues currently include:
1) Search is broken. I borked this in the last few days and not sure what I did. It will be back soon.

Update. i fixed it. stupid me.
2) IE7 fucks up the sidebar. Nothing I can about that for now. Please use FireFox or similar if you can. :)

3) “Generic Avatars” not ready yet. Until then, you will just have to make your own. 40×40pixels of goodtimes.

4) ….. I dunno whatelse. I hope there is nothign else major forked up.

Enjoy and welcome home Hoopeeans!

Hi gang. Well, yet another post by me. This time, we are asking for feature requests. What do you want to see here at Hoopee?

Since we are using WordPress, there are tons of plug-ins available. And, I have a genius programmer brother who can help with things not plug-in-able.

So chime in, let us know what you think you need to enjoy Hoopee that much more!

Well, things are coming together nicely here. The site works great and looks great in Safari and Firefox. But looks like shit in IE. I hope that most of you are NOT using IE because, well, it sucks.

Download FireFox!

I am not really sure how to fix it so it does look correct in IE. Since I am using legit code that is an accepted standard. And IE ignores this and does whatever the hell it wants.

Argh.

Wow… I have spent soooo much time lately on this project. Last night, I got home around 5:45pm, sat down at the computer and it was nearly 11pm when I realized I should probably go chill and watch some TV.

That my hoopee pals is dedication to the cause.

I’ve tweaked the look, added a random quote generator, and am working on the avatar portion of things now. The ability to add an avatar is there, but it is not displayed yet. Not until I can figure out how to add it to the div and wrap the text around it. Sometimes CSS makes me crazy.

Update… I got the avatar stuff working, wahoo! I have for now limited them to 40×40. Maybe later I will up the size. And up the academy.

I’ve also upgraded the new user abilities to be able to create your own new posts/edit your own posts but not submit them until I upgrade you to the next level. Going to see how it goes before I just let the flood gates open and let anyone post. Not worried about you guys, I am worried about spammers. Those fuckers.

I’d like to take a moment to plead with you to join our community of freaky oddball wierdos here at Hoopee.com.

Signing up is simple, just look for the link on the right over there ->>> that says “Register” and click it.

You will be asked for a Username and a valid Email address. It will then send you a temporary password for you to use to login. Just login (with the link provided if you wish), fill out the Profile, change your password to something you can remember and then click “Update your Profile”. You will then be good to go!

So, obviously you will notice the new look of course. But, there is much more that is new.

First off, I have moved Hoopee to a new server and have taken control of the domain.  Malachi honored me with the passing of the baton. I hope I can continue the tradition of the Hoopee.com goodness in all it’s glory here on this new server under my own watchful eye.

Secondly, I have setup the site as a WordPress site. So, this means a family interface and all the functionality that goes with it for you folks who have used it before. Haven’t used WP? No problem, it’s simple to use!

Third, we now have the ability to poast images in posts without linking to an outside post. The image Upload tool is part of the Write Post page, just below the poasting area. Please try and keep the images around 40o pixels wide so it does not send the page scrolling off to the left. The Image Upload tool has the option to show just the thumbnail, so you can do that if you wish as well.

Hmm… what else… well, I am not sure. As I am still setting everything up. I will update you as I come up with new “New” things! :)

ams

If you see something amiss, let me know. WordPress’s config and theme stuff is overly complicated when trying to tweak everything to look how you want. So I will have probably missed something.