Cockeyed staff page
Cockeyed staff page These are the people that assist me in the strenuous rigors of website
excellence.
For instance, Mike helped me look up "rigors" in the thesaurus.
Brooke Pannell |
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Brooke is the Chief of Scientific Practices at cockeyed.com and co-stars in the Science Club episodes. Her great enthusiasm and overflowing charisma come through in every photo, making her a cornerstone of Cockeyed.com's success. She studied entomology at U. C. Davis. When she isn't at hip basement nightclubs, she reads Fametracker and The Onion. She was awarded the title of Cranberry Queen 2001. |
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| Mark Hamilton is the Head Bartender at Cockeyed.com. His boundless energy makes him California's most wanted party-goer and a natural in front of the camera. One time he challenged Stuart Murdoch from Belle and Sebastian to a dance contest...and won! He stars in the episode that broke us into the mainstream: "How much is inside shaving cream?". |
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Ambur Benally |
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Ambur is Chief Composer & Music Designer for
cockeyed.com. She sings in a band. She is
more focused on music and the sound of things than anyone else I know,
plus she knows all about chromatic progressions and the like without
boring you to death about it. One time I let her borrow my car and she later
confessed driving it a hundred miles an hour.
She voted for Nader. |
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Leif Anderson |
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| Leif Anderson is Chief Historian at Cockeyed.com. He established himself in 1997 as the most reliable source of war and Government information available outside of the internet. It is a completely different sphere of knowledge than my other friends, which makes him very valuable at times. He is known to have stumped the "Guess the evil dictator/sitcom character" engine on his first try. Leif has a vast collection of philosophy books and bicycling scars. He reads the New York Times website. |
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Mike Cockerham |
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| Mike Cockerham is Captain of the Royal Navy at cockeyed.com. He is (so far) the only person injured in a prank, earning him the Gold Cross for Valor. Because of our similar appearance, Mike often stands in for me at Royal weddings, State dinners and other diplomatic functions. Having worked at both libraries and bookstores, he knows where to find the freaky sex books using the Dewey Decimal System. |
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Susan Cockerham |
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Susan Cockerham is the Chief Sketch writer at
Cockeyed.com. She is also my younger sister.
She has worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and two Bay Area Drug Companies. She says there is a name for people that inadvertently destroy huge batches of drugs during the manufacturing process: the million dollar club. She rides a motorcycle. |
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Jane Cockerham |
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Jane is my youngest sister & Head of the
Critical Response Team at cockeyed.com. She took Harlow's Nightclub
to the labor board for cheating her out of her wages, outmaneuvered
their bigshot lawyer and came out on top with the maximum award.
She has an absolutely deadly combination of strength and wit. |
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Christina Cockerham |
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Christina Cockerham is Head of Travel and Chief Internet
fraud debunker at Cockeyed.com. Her cutting response to a bevy of internet
tales can lead you to think the whole internet is a pack of lies-- perhaps she is
just keeping all those Free Victoria's Secret gift certificates for
herself.
Chris is a marketing woman, a thinker, a bug collector. And that makes her dangerous. |
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Colleen Craig |
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Colleen Craig is Chief ex-girlfriend and diplomat to the deaf community.
When I told Colleen about my plan to keep track of all the panhandlers that ask me for money on the streets, she countered with her own plan to keep track of the men who approach her with their unwanted sexual advances. For every sour beggar I had, she had four. |
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Stacy |
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Stacy is the voice of reason at Cockeyed.com. She possesses a combination of wise professionalism
and gay abandon that is extremely rare and highly treasured.
Her hair is blonde, but the style changes all the time. |
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Catherine |
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Catherine is the rudest rude girl in San
Francisco. Despite her tough exterior, she is quick to laugh
and has shown extreme patience in times of great strain...like with
that woman in the emergency room.
She was in this one music video, but she will never admit to it. Catherine and Jeanette teamed up to be the spokeswomen for the "Bad things that can happen to you" and ended up being enthusiastic actresses in both Sacramento and San Francisco. |
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Jeanette |
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Jeanette is Chief of Bureaucratic Sidestepping
at cockeyed.com. She lives in San Francisco and dreams of one day
owning the same number of guns and bicycles. She is the half-sister of internet
pioneer Julie Carniero.
Catherine and Jeanette teamed up to be the spokeswomen for the "Bad things that can happen to you" and ended up being enthusiastic actresses in both Sacramento and San Francisco. |
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Jennifer Tipton is chief of Fashion at
Cockeyed.com. She is also a master at video. She first gained international fame for her "drowning" short from Italian technology and review site "Neural"
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Tara Rakis |
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| Tara is Head DJ at Cockeyed.com. Tara, Eric and I toured Europe in the summer of 1999 after being laid off from our internet jobs at Cable and Wireless. Tara was the group spokeswoman for much of the trip, talking us into several choice situations, and talking herself out of a couple of tricky ones. She even convinced me to cut loose a couple of times. |
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Holly Petersen |
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Holly is the promotional mouthpiece of cockeyed.
Laughter is her drug of choice and will let nothing stand in the way of a
good joke, including money, time and making a complete ass out of herself.
She loves design, computers, origami and eyeglasses. |
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Daniel James |
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Daniel James is Chief Officer of Emerging Markets at Cockeyed.com. He takes his post in the Crow's nest and keeps his one good eye peeled for bountiful targets on the horizon. He stays up-to-date with internet waves and trends, and will someday help focus the reckless energies of Cockeyed.com into a profitable internet juggernaut. I've never checked his family history, but I am sure there is a Blackbeard or Dread pirate among them. |
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Elise Thurman |
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Elise is the Master of Disguise at Cockeyed.com. She spent a few years studying interior design in Sacramento, but has always had the ability to determine what "looked right" and declare it with
unwavering confidence. If you are lucky, you have a friend like her. She has more ebay feedback than me. |
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Steven Cotterill |
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Steven Cotterill is Lead Guitarist at Cockeyed.com. Steve has lived in a bunch of different cities all over the world, but managed to escape without adopting an air of superiority. He is impossible to rattle, probably due to his time spent on the stage. He has a superhuman ability to stay up late. |
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Tom Davenport |
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Tom is President of hospitality at Cockeyed.com.
Tom knows how to get things done, which helps make him very treasured friend. If I was assembling a group of superstar bad-asses who had to accomplish some critical mission, I'd ask Tom to be the leader. He is the only guy I know that gets stopped in the street by people who would like to compliment his hair. |
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Amy Davenport |
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Amy is Chief Negotiator at Cockeyed.com.
Amy works so hard, and gets so involved with her work, it is easy to get the idea that she loves it. Like a top draft pick, she has an aura of impending success. She has seen more fake boobs than all my other friends combined.
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Chris Loental |
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Chris is ARCHDUKE!
He is a great guy who is always willing to lend a hand. He works at Intel, and although he almost never talks about computers, it is obvious that he loves the internet as much as I do. If you have a party, and you invite Chris Loental, Chris Loental is going to be at your party.
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Stephanie Stephens |
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Stephanie is the Director of Live Entertainment at Cockeyed.com. Brooke dragged her onto the Cockeyed Staff in 2001 so she could help us tape printouts up at the elementary school. You have seen Stephanie's photo on the movie poster for "Poltergeist". Yep. That's her. |
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Summer Morrison |
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Summer Morrison is Chief Activities Director at Cockeyed.com. She was somehow able to throw a giant party with four bands at her house in Sacramento. Although the police came on four separate occasions, she escaped without getting a single noise citation. How did she do it? Charm. |
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Melanie Berlin |
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Melanie Berlin is the Ultimate Outfit Coordinator at Cockeyed.com. She is
probably the funniest woman that I know.
She is a champion thrift shopper and has a double black belt in karaoke. |
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Tara Prescott |
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Tara Prescott is the Chief Wordsmith at Cockeyed.com. She's got a sparkle in her eye and a taste for adventure that make her ideal
for cockeyed.com hijinks.
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Eric Gilbert |
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Tara, Eric and I toured Europe in the summer of 1999 after being laid off from our internet jobs at Cable and Wireless. Attacking Europe with an open mind and a willing attitude, when the going gets weird, the Eric gets thirsty. |
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Pam Lee |
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Pam is head of Design at cockeyed.com She has no
enemies.
Once, at a party in Davis, California, when I was trying to impress her with the vast number of bicycles in Amsterdam, she countered with, "you should see Beijing!" |
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Julia is Chief of Urban Culture at cockeyed.com.
Julia once designed and printed a thousand sticker-back postcards in New York City and distributed them around town to all of the "free postcard" stands in the coffeeshops and bookstores. This April I spotted one stuck to a door in San Francisco. She's got better art than I do. |
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Ross Eaton |
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Ross Eaton is Chief of Electronica at cockeyed.com. He
helped me design the paparazzi costume, and gives me frequent advice on
all subjects electric and electronic.
One could even compare him to "Q", only not the new John Cleese Q, the old, Desmond Llewelyn Q. |
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Marc Nolfi |
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An early influence to my taste for high-adventure, Marc
Nolfi is Chief of Counter Intelligence at Cockeyed.com. Marc will
invest hundreds of hours in preparation for the one moment that a clever
prank gets revealed. His dedication to tricky is unmatched.
Marc is the Macintosh Evangelist and the only person I know who knows more about Adobe Photoshop...and counterfeiting. |
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Steve P. |
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Oh man. Steve is the King of good ideas. He works in Oakland, but he
used to live here & cook for us all the time. He loves movies and
beauty...but mostly it is the screwball ideas that really make him so
valuable.
He calls keyboard shortcuts "hot keys". |
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Translators |
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Cameron Kroeger, Karl-Heinz Kreiter, Pablo Benjamin, Peter Sandström and Niels Royers are the translators for "How Much is Inside" Pictured is Niels Royers, from the Netherlands, who translated HMI into Dutch. Thanks to Niels, Cockeyed is number one result for searches of "Isolatieschuim". |
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Cameron Kroeger, Karl-Heinz Kreiter, Pablo Benjamin, Peter Sandström and Niels Royers are the translators for "How Much is Inside" Pictured is Pablo Benjamin, from Buenos Aires, Argentina who translated HMI into Spanish. Thanks to Pablo, Cockeyed is now number one result on google for searches of lapiz labial, the spanish words for lipstick, as well as envoltura de aluminio and espuma expansible. |
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Karl-Heinz Kreiter, from Wassenberg, Germany is setting the pace for translators. He has not only translated every HMI episode into German, he has also translated the "Work from Home" story and has started on the "Science Club" episodes! He operates www.mlm-beobachter.de, a consumer-advocate site in Germany. |
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