The Final Four is over, and I’m actually winning the 2012 UtterlyBoring.com Pick ’em, but it’s still going to come down to the final game. If Kansas wins, I’m the bragging-rights champ (since I’m not claiming any prizes), but if Kentucky wins, I’m going to drop down to fourth, as several folks are really close to me, and have Kentucky winning the final game. The final game is worth a bunch of points (13 to be exact) so things could really get interesting. The updated scores for the day are here.
Month: March 2012
Reading Material
- Whoops…Kazakhstan’s shooting team has been left stunned after a comedy national anthem from the film Borat was played at a medal ceremony at championships in Kuwait instead of the real one.
- Block your friends’ Facebook apps from accessing your private info.
- Welcome to the post-PC era.
- Need a legal document? Docracy is a social repository of contracts, legal agreements and other legal documents.
- Easily manage all your social network settings in one place.
- Somebody really knows their conspiracy theories.
- Font Awesome is an iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.
- iPhone people have all the fun: This iPhone case combines all your credit cards into one. The Kickstarter project has long met its goal, and it’s too bad that this will probably never make it to Android (too many devices in different shapes — developing accessories for iStuff is far simpler).
- If you’re transferring cPanel accounts between servers (like I was a few weeks ago), some of these command will be useful.
- How we decreased sign up confirmation email bounces by 50%. Now I just need to implement this code on some sign-up forms I deal with.
- Similarly, the Open Domain Directory idea proposed here is a good idea, as is Humans TXT.
- The movie Inception explained in a nice little web site.
- Instead of “amazing,” why not say….
- Sometimes product reviews on sites are just plain worthless.
- Add a bit of water color to your Open Street Maps.
- Because I can never seem to find it via a Google search: the new Federal Student Loan Servicing page where you can log in and deal with your federal student loan account without having to remember a PIN.
- Why James Whittaker left Google.
- It was hard being a jazz performer during Nazi rule. They had pretty strict rules.
- One drug to shrink all tumors.
- Open plan offices must die.
- Post Office 2.0 Plugin for Movable Type allows you to e-mail to post to your MovableType blog.
- The regu.la blog network is a collection of simple daily information: Daily facts, quotes and numbers.
- What if modern photo editing techniques used in magazines were applied to classic artwork? It might look like this.
- Need to connect Lincoln Logs to Legos to K’Nex to Tinkertoys? Now you can.
- Interesting look at how testing and development is done on the Netflix app for Android.
- The time is…
- 10 Essential DIY Skills that Aren’t as Hard as You Think.
- Bradley Manning, the U.S. serviceman who leaked info to Wikileaks, is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
- RT Se7en Lite allows you to easily create Windows 7 Slipstream disks, like nLite and vLite did for XP and Vista.
- After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica has stopped publishing. Wikipedia has a collection of errors in Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia.
- The Weinstein company is done dealing with the MPAA: Bully to be Release Unrated.
The Final Four Is Set!
In all the years I’ve been running the pick ’em on this site, never have I been in contention to win the thing this late in the game. As it stands right now, I manage to pick 3 of the 4 Final Four teams and stand in second place behind “Zen-ish,”, who has been close to the lead for more of the tournament. If Kansas and Kentucky win next weekend, it would come down to me and “BBall Magic” for the championship, as he picked Kentucky to win, I picked Kansas.
That being said, it doesn’t really matter, other than for bragging rights. I’ve said all along, I’m not eligible for any prizes, so should I manage to win, the prizes will be given away starting with the second place person. But you dang-well better believe that that I’m going to make sure everybody knows that I picked it right.
Of course, knowing my luck, all this might be for naught as Louisville and Ohio State might win and I won’t get any more points anyway, so it might end up being a moot point.
The Elite Eight Is Set
The last few games of the Sweet 16 have been played, and we have a new leader in the 2012 Pick ’em. “Zen-ish” regained the lead he had last week with several folks right on his taile (scores are here). I managed to pick six of the eight teams that are still left standing, so I’m sitting tied for ninth (which is the highest place I think I’ve ever sat in this late in the tournament).
Scores for the next round will be posted after the Final Four is set on Sunday. Good luck everybody!
Half Of The Elite Eight Has Been Set
The second weekend of the 2012 Pick ’em kicked off today with four of the elite eight teams being decided tonight. Which naturally means two of the four teams I had picked lost, pretty much killing my bracket.
“MGoBlue” still has a single-point lead over “Zen-ish” heading into the second day of the Sweet 16, if you see the scores. “Zen-ish” still has more points sitting out there to score, so the tournament is far from over.
It’s A Lot Less Scary When It’s Not Dark
Limbo is a pretty popular little indie game (been meaning to try it out). The setting is very dark, and all you primarily see is shadows and silhouettes, which adds to the game’s tension. Life in Limbo would be a lot less scary if you had a flashlight;
The First Weekend of the Pick ’em Is Over, and We Have our Losers!
The first weekend in the pick ’em is over, and we have our losers. By a single point, “Drentastic!” will be getting the loser t-shirt (again) and “GoHogs!” will be getting the burrito. Neither one of them have teams left to score points with, so the bottom two shall remain the same. Congrats, gentlemen! I’ll contact you later this week to arrange for prize delivery. Dren’s managed to lose this thing a few times now, so I’ll have to make his t-shirt extra special this time around.
As for those of us who are actually trying to win something by picking winners, “MGoBlue” took the lead today, scoring 10 points and holding onto a slim, single-point lead going into next week (where the games are worth more points). Spreadsheet and pretty graphs are posted here for your viewing pleasure.
Day Three of the Pick ’em Is Over
Things went mostly as predicted today in the 2012 Pick ’em, with the top seeds winning and folks who picked them getting two points each for their trouble. Things will get interesting tomorrow as the low-seeded teams that won yesterday will get a shot at further screwing up everybody’s brackets.
After half of the Sweet 16 has been set, we have a tie on top with “Bodacious Bracket” and “Zen-ish” tied for first with five brackets only a single point behind. The day’s scores have been posted with “Go Hogs!” and “Drentastic” bringing up the rear. Tomorrow’s games will probably solidify which person with get the burrito and which person will get the shirt. We’ll see how things turn out. I’m currently tied for 21st place with the like’s of Jack and my brother, but I still have more potential points to score than all of them (and even “Canadian Invaders” could make a serious run from 28th place, as that bracket still has 115 potential points sitting out there).
A Heap of Upsets Makes For A Bunch of Screwed Up Brackets
With two different #2 seeds losing to #15 seeds and a #11, #12 and #13 seed all winning today, there are a load of screwed up brackets after the first round of the 2012 pick ’em. Perpetual loser Dren scored more points than I think he has in a while, and has some competition for last place. Thankfully, after it was all said and done, my Elite Eight teams are still alive, so I still have a lot of potential points, but I’m still near the end of the group, tied for 35th place.
Scoring sheet has been updated. Good luck this weekend, everybody!
Day One Of The Pick ’em Is Over
A few upsets today made it so we didn’t have any body pick all the winners in the first round of the pick ’em today (unlike last year), but we did end up with two nearly-perfect brackets. Picking 15 of the 16 games correctly today were “Lost Cause” and “Zen-ish”. Both were thrown off by different upsets.
As usual, I’m towards the bottom, tied for 28 out of 41.
Scores for the day are posted here. Good luck tomorrow!