Well, so much for me picking Iowa to win this years NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. [sigh]
I was doing well first round right up to that moment. All of my first round picks that had not made it to second round were slated to lose there anyhow, so I still had plenty of opportunity to make it!
Alas, so much for the Atlanta Regional for me. Go Ohio! who I have playing Iowa for the championship.
Yes, I’m contributing to the $4B of lost productivity.
Today, I was sent a video excerpt from a CBS news broadcast. I’m not going to post it because I’m 99.44% certain I’d be violating copyright to do so. However, you can read about the feel-good story by clicking any of the links here at Google.
It is the story from February, 2006, of an autistic high school student who gets his chance to shine in the last basketball game of the year.
The only time of year when we talk about that month’s “Ides” is March! That’s too bad. I think I should start dating my official documents with the Roman System.
But, today we celebrate the passing of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Go Rome!
Just in case you needed some song to stick in your head for days on end, you should check out this remixed LOTR video.
Of course, while you’re at that site, you should glance around and see some of the other posts that entertained me:
For example, Random Personal Picture Finder. This one can keep you amused for hours.
Item: Yay for Live halftime shows! Despite their lackluster performance, I give the Rolling Stones 2ThumbsUP (“One for the Thumb!”) for doing the show live. Thank god there were no wardrobe malfunctions to deal with.
Item: Could the Seahawks have been more lame? I don’t think so. They soundly beat themselves, despite any (disputed) referee miscalls. And, they got one big call in their favor during the first half, when the fumble-that-wasn’t was ruled as an incomplete pass. Unless they’ve changed the rules on me (control plus two steps or a “football move”) that was definitely a fumble. And that “downed by contact” that was ruled instead of a fumble was just luck on the Seahawks part. There was no part of that light touch that caused the fumble and it’s merely the letter of the rule that saved their bacon on that one.
Item: It’s bad when I, a profound football noob, am yelling at the TV about wasted play time at the end of the half and the game. If I can see it, why can’t they?
Item: It must suck to go to the Super Bowl and be definitely the Away Team. That was a truly Pittsburgh Home Field.
Item: The MacGyver commercial rocked! My favorite, followed closely by the Ameriquest defibrillator paddle commercial, and then the “Streaker.”
Instead of writing my monograph, or cleaning the toilets, or staring at the rainfall, I watched 5000 blow-up dolls get loaded into the Rose Bowl.
Link from BoingBoing
A new spokesperson steps forth! Check out Go Fug Yourself.
It’s a night for surfing around.
Here is a site which lists a Cthulu antenna ball for your car. Intersting in and of itself, but take a look at this close up picture of a bunch of them together.
Do you see what I see?
I see a cat toy in the background!
I imagine there was one freaked-out kitty with this army of green cat-toy sized monsters!
SnapShirts.com will take your blog and make it into a wordcloud such as this one.
The words come from your website and size represents frequency. Just go to the link and check it out…
Very nice, and they’ll make you a T-Shirt! I supsect that it will be interesting to see how things evolve over time.
Link found from SFSignal
