This is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen all day…
Month: March 2007
Peyton Manning United Way Spoof
I’ve actually loved all the commercials and such that Peyton Manning does, and he hosted Saturday Night Live yesterday. This skit with him was hilarious (no, I did not see the whole episode)…
Round Four, Day One Is Over
Day one of the round four is in the books, and two teams punched their tickets to the Final Four. Here’s how the tournament scores are doing now:
- Coz’s Bracket: 95
- monkeyinabox: 92
- Repeating Greatness: 90
- jenB_goDucks!: 87
- goldenglove7624: 87
- Scott’s Mad Dribblerz: 86
- #1 bracket: 85
- shots hot: 84
- Reigning Dud: 83
- steph: 83
- jaylee: 82
- whiteybarkley: 82
- bend no more: 82
- Rusty from Portland: 81
- bojack: 77
- GO GATORS!!: 75
- PLU_STATS_231_2: 74
- Bowser: 73
- Canadian Bacon: 71
- HEELSTAR: 70
- Briar Patch Project: 70
- casual picks: 70
- kandray’s bracket: 67
- MN Shivs: 67
- Jake’s ’07 Pick ’em: 63
- Tasmanian Devils: 62
- PAIZANO’S PIZZA: 61
- I can’t think of a name: 59
- shlid: 48
- Bretigny: 42
Now I’m rooting for the Ducks and Georgetown tomorrow. My bracket’s already screwed anyway, so those are just who I’d like to actually see win.
Round Three’s Over…
…and there’s a three-way tie for the lead of the tourney (with all-new leaders, thanks to the higher point value of correct picks in later rounds):
- goldenglove7624: 79
- Coz’s Bracket: 79
- jenB_goDucks!: 79
- Scott’s Mad Dribblerz: 78
- #1 bracket: 77
- bojack: 77
- monkeyinabox: 76
- steph: 75
- PLU_STATS_231_2: 74
- jaylee: 74
- whiteybarkley: 74
- Repeating Greatness: 74
- Rusty from Portland: 73
- Canadian Bacon: 71
- casual picks: 70
- shots hot: 68
- GO GATORS!!: 67
- Reigning Dud: 67
- bend no more: 66
- Bowser: 65
- HEELSTAR: 62
- Briar Patch Project: 62
- PAIZANO’S PIZZA: 61
- kandray’s bracket: 59
- MN Shivs: 59
- Jake’s ’07 Pick ’em: 55
- Tasmanian Devils: 54
- I can’t think of a name: 51
- shlid: 48
- Bretigny: 34
There are still ways for a lot of players to win this as many folks in the top 10 picked some of these teams — the next 10 days are going to be exciting!
A Quick Memo To The Source Weekly
You know, I really appreciate the plugs you guys gave me in the last two issues, but one thing annoys me: Your insistence on putting my name in quotation marks. My friends call me Jake. My co-workers call me Jake. My wife calls me sweetie, but knows my name is Jake. I’m not hiding behind a pseudonym on this blog. The left side of every page of this site say “UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman … “. The whois record for UtterlyBoring.com shows Jake Ortman as the admin and technical contact for the domain with orty.com, my very much side business, listed as the registrant (and you can check with the state to see my name registered on that as well).
So if anybody is here from links in The Source and was wondering about the quotes, well there you go: Jake is my name, don’t wear it out.
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I Officially Cannot Win The Pick ’em
After the first day of round three, I’ve been officially knocked out from winning. Even if every one of my surviving picks won, I’d still lose according to the scenario generator. ’tis OK, as I’m not eligible for the cool prizes anyway.
But if things work out, there could be three teams from the Pac-10 in the final four, and that’d be really amazing.
Anyway, here’s the scores after day one of round three:
- bojack: 61
- goldenglove7624: 59
- PLU_STATS_231_2: 58
- jaylee: 58
- Scott’s Mad Dribblerz: 58
- #1 bracket: 57
- Rusty from Portland: 57
- steph: 55
- Coz’s Bracket: 55
- jenB_goDucks!: 55
- whiteybarkley: 54
- casual picks: 54
- monkeyinabox: 52
- GO GATORS!!: 51
- Canadian Bacon: 51
- HEELSTAR: 50
- Repeating Greatness: 50
- shots hot: 48
- Reigning Dud: 47
- bend no more: 46
- Bowser: 45
- PAIZANO’S PIZZA: 45
- shlid: 44
- MN Shivs: 43
- kandray’s bracket: 43
- Jake’s ’07 Pick ’em: 43
- Tasmanian Devils: 42
- Briar Patch Project: 42
- I can’t think of a name: 39
- Bretigny: 26
Sorry to Say, But I Agree with Wal-Mart
The proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter on the north end of Bend has a ton of opposition (and folks who don’t like Wal-Mart, but don’t like the opposition), to the point where Wal-Mart had to appeal to the State Land Use Board of Appeals. The biggest roadblock was how Wal-Mart was going to handle traffic at the already clogged Cooley Rd. and Hwy. 97 intersection (their land is on that corner). What always confused me, however, is how it seemed that Wal-Mart was wholly responsible for traffic restructuring in that area, despite the other large tenants in the area and the City of Bend’s Juniper Ridge project right across the highway, which, upon completion, promises just as many traffic problems. Now that the City has its first planned tenant (the corporate headquarters for Les Schwab Tires), Wal-Mart has a legitimate beef. Is the tire giant going to have to pay to help traffic issues in the area? The City of Bend worked their tails off to get Les Schwab to move to Juniper Ridge, and (from what I can tell) is giving Les Schwab a free pass (I know Les and co’ won’t have nearly the traffic flow). From what I can tell, the City is requiring a lot more work out of Wal-Mart. Both companies are going to provide a bunch of jobs and tax dollars to the area (obviously Wal-Mart’s will be lesser paying — I won’t argue with that). But how much is the city planning on paying for improvement there versus what they’re asking of Wal-Mart and some of their preferred tenants? Yes, Wal-Mart a massive company with a buttload of money, but is it fair to pin everything on them?
Discuss.
Stupidly Addicting Game For The Day
Don’t start playing Desktop Tower Defense if you have anything you want to accomplish today. You won’t get it done. Don’t ask me why I know that. Thanks kottke for the link.
What Are Guys Really Thinking?
This video is so wrong (and not safe for work — a bit of swearing and dirty talk), but it made me laugh mostly because of the shock value (video after the jump).