Ego Surfing!

Surfing the internet for references to one's own name is henceforth to be known as ego surfing. Since nothing on the web could possibly be false, all of these references MUST be to me. I really do get around don't I? They misspelled my name a few times, but I'm not complaining. I'm just glad someone had the foresight to display my exploits around the world in HTML format. This page was last updated in December 2005 and lots of the links are dead now, but I don't care... I'm leaving them here! Check the "cache" links to see what they looked like back when they were valid.

Featured Links!

Some of my favorite links to look up from three of my favorite sites: The Internet Movie Database, Google search, and Yahoo. These sites aren't cached since they're bound to change more frequently then the rest of this rot.

My Education

I've really jumped around getting my education. I've graduated from numerous high schools, colleges, universities, and academies. When you see data below that seems contradictory, know that this is does not disprove my theory that all these links must point to me. It only serves to support my OTHER theory that time travel is not only possible, but easily achieved with some twist ties, bubble gum, and several hundred hamsters (with hamster wheels).

	Seems I'm seriously into also Philosophy and baggy shirts. I started as a student and ended up a professor! I'm a faculty member at the University of Indiana and Adjunct Faculty member at the university of Southern Indiana (Philosophy AND Political Science!).
	http://ai.uga.edu/~ghrosenb/book.html	Cached
	http://www.indiana.edu/~geu/organizers.html	Cached
	http://www.usi.edu/libarts/philpolsci/phil/faculty.htm	Cached
	http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/cdelance/IMAGES/bio.html	Cached

Bands that I've played in

After graduation, I bounced around a while and learned to play a few instruments or sing or something that ended me up in one of the following bands. Interestingly, I'm thinking of getting back to that Disciples look.

	The Disciples - That's me on the left. First time in my life I was the tallest!
	http://www.moonmartin.com/photos_page4.html	Cached

	The Flying Burrito Brothers - Not an original member of the band, Eric (or Erik depending who you ask) Dalton was the drummer on their 1974 tour and the "Live in Amsterdam" album. He left the group afterwards and currently plays with another former member of the Burritos in the Byron Berline Band (see below). Check the mouse-over picture on the left. Eric Dalton is the guy on the far right. Excellent beard.
	http://members.tripod.com/mysongbook/artists/fbb/amsterdam.htm	Cached
	http://members.chello.at/bluegrass.newgrass/gazette2.htm	Cached
	http://music.excite.com/artist/biography/-3401	Cached

Odd Jobs

Eventually, I decided I needed a real job. I had several over the years. Sometimes apparently a few at the same time. Here's a list of the ones I'm most proud of.

	Another example of a time I used a slightly variated-versionated name. Erik Dalton, PHD founded the Freedom From Pain institute and to this day works to free you from the tortures of lower back pain. He's a certified rolfer, and boy can he rolf. What in the blue hell is a rolfer anyway?! But seriously, there are literally hundreds of links to Dr. Dalton and I just *LOVE* his tag line.
	and Dalton’s Myoskeletal Alignment Techniques takes deep tissue work to a new dimension.
	http://www.erikdalton.com/ http://www.freedomfrompaininstitute.com	Cached Cached

	I'm chairing a focus group to determine the impact of home-school and private school students becoming part time students at the school I teach at Fauquier County Virginia. There's actually several links from this school, but this one made me feel like I was part of something.
	http://www.fauquiercounty.gov/government/departments/BOS/pastagendas/06-03-02/home-schoolfactstimeline.pdf	Cached
	http://www.fcps1.org/index.cfm?Action=pages&sectionID=200	Cached
	http://www.fcps1.org/Documents/AP%20Potential%20Summer%20Academy.pdf	Cached

Eric the Athlete

I'm quite the athlete and I have the links to prove it! As you will see below, I've not only excelled at most sports, but in a few instances, I've been the captain, or even the coach of the team! I might no longer hold the record for career runs in Cricket, but I'm still the champ of Tyger Blowing!

Publications/Newsgroups/Submissions

I've stolen some time here and there to pen a good mess of emails, newsgroup postings, letters to editors, and the like. Here's a sampling of just some of the stuff that's actually made it into the searches.

Clubs and Organizations

I'm a joiner! Check out all of these clubs and organizations I belong to!

	I love when people name awards after me! "Vibro-Acoustic Sciences has proudly instituted the Eric Dalton Memorial Achievement Award for leadership in engineering simulation of acoustics, vibration and shock in memory of the late Eric C. Dalton."
	http://www.vasci.com/company/events/asuc/	Cached

	Ok, this one might take some explaining. I'm Eric "Evil Eye" Dalton, one of the founding members of the Centurions. We're super heroes and we kick some major butt with our strange brand of 'super' powers. We have our own comic book series and everything! And of course you know that only the greatest of super heroes have their homepage on "Geocities".
	http://www.sbyrc.org/TellTales/Tell%20Tales%20Vol%201%20No%202.pdf	Cached

Genealogical Links

Eric of the ages! There's quite a few more of these, but I'll decline to put them all here for the sake of brevity.

Miscellaneous Links

If it didn't fit into one of the above 'categories' then I stuffered it down here. Don't think these ain't important links though!

	This is Eric Dalton in his photo from the Graduate School's external awards recognition dinner, February 26, 2001, for students who have won prestigious external fellowships and grants. This link seems to have died, but my Cache is still valid. Click it to see a bigger picture of "me" and my wife or sister or somebody I just met who happens to have the same last name. Can't really tell can we?
	http://research.unc.edu/grad/funding/photopages/pix1.htm	Cached

	If you get to Australia any time soon, look me up. This could be one of my favorite Ego Links of all time as well as one of my oldest. The quote from the page describes me thusly: "The dark and sinister figure in the corner, striking a pose for Rodan, is Eric Dalton, party guy." Nice!
	http://www.ai.uga.edu/~ghrosenb/bloomington.html	Cached

	I bought a sheep! Not just any sheep... I got "Jag the outstanding ram" (see picture at left) from the Pirtle farm. "He is a Rocky son out of the great Victoria ewe which gives Jag a great genetic background of Train and No Fear." He'll do well for me in my Benton, TN home. The most interesting thing about this webpage is the knowledge that there is a right way to hold a sheep to photograph it: 1) Stand in front of animal with legs splayed legs apart. 2) Tuck sheep-head under armpit. 3) Step back with far leg thus stretching the animals form and showing off it's height & posture. THAT is need to know information!
	http://www.clublambpage.com/pirtle/pirtle.htm http://www.clublambpage.com/reilly/salepage.htm	Cached Cached

Dead Links

Alas, the links that follow are no longer in service, but they WERE at one point so I'm including them! When these died they gave me the idea for the Cache. Thanks also to Google who provided the idea for cached web pages and for some of the links on this page.

Links that actually ARE to me! (The TRUE ego-surfing links!)

The year 2001 was my year to participate in every ESPN fantasy sports game I could (including the expensive ones) and see how high my UBER Ranking could get. I even got in on the fantasy Bass Fishing & horse racing! I'm the MVP Baby!
http://games.espn.go.com/uber/entry?username=EricDalton&season=2002&v=0	Cached

That's all. I can't believe you read down this far! You deserve, and therefore have my heart felt praise and congratulations. Later!
-Eric