Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!
The field in the pick’ em has been set, and we have 32 players and brackets filled out for the games that started a few minutes ago.
We also have another prize that will be going to the winner that my boss threw in (as he’s got a bracket, too): A XXXL (that’s extra-extra-extra-large) lightweight University of Oregon jacket, made by Nike. It’s a couple different shades of green with yellow trim. It’s got a small Oregon “O” and Nike swoosh on the front and it says “Oregon” across the back. It’s a nice little jacket, I think it’s used, but looks brand new, but it’s frickin’ huge — but there are some guys that have brackets that it’ll fit fine. It’ll get shipped free of charge to the winner.
I’ll try to post updates at the end of each day of the tournament, and I’ll try to create a Google Spreadsheets file that everybody can see the daily scoring.
Good luck everybody!
Anybody Want To Try This At Safeway?
Supermarket dominos…
Thanks Dave for the video.
Ronnie Van Zant Is Probably Rolling In His Grave
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s hit “Sweet Home Alabama” done by a group of Finns and Russkies:
More background here.
Thanks Cheryl for the link.
Last Chance To Fill Out Your NCAA Bracket
The NCAA Basketball tournament starts in earnest tomorrow, so today’s the last chance to fill out your bracket and potentially win some stuff (and I’m always looking for more prizes to throw into the pot — if you have one you want to throw in, pop me a note below).
Mac People: Can You Help Me Out?
I have a co-worker who has a Mac G5 running OS X and is having a couple issues that sound hardware related (blue bar or something on her monitor), but knowing as little as I do about Macs (I’m not a complete moron, but don’t have nearly the skill set I do with PCs), and the fact that she doesn’t have a ‘net connection at her house for me to research on the fly, I don’t think I’d be able to help her. It’s a job for somebody who knows Macs FAR better than I.
Is there any local (or even non-local) Mac Gurus that read this site that could possibly take a couple e-mails or a phone call from her and help fix it (she understands there will be costs involved)? It may be a 30-second fix or a 30-minute fix, she just wants to have an idea and doesn’t want to have to drag her computer into Connecting Point to find out (as she lives in Lapine). Comment here if interested and I’ll pass off her contact info to you (or I’ll give her yours) and you can then hash it out with her.
Geekdom Link Dump
Here we go, my once-every-couple-week tradition of posting a bunch of links (in turn, cleaning out my link stash) that are primarily for my reference but are bound to be useful to somebody.
- Linux isn’t really a resource hog, but you can still speed it up.
- How to rip Netflix “Watch Now” movies.The geek “Years of Experience” myth when it comes to applying for jobs (moron HR people are to blame for this, as they’re the biggest reason good geeks don’t get good jobs).
- Great Geek resume (I really should change my resume to look like that).
- Haiku poetically resurrects BeOS (BeOS was a great operating system in its day).
- In case you ever needed to, here’s how to completely disable the system tray in XP/Vista.
- Make XP Look like Vista (and it’ll still probably perform better than Vista).
- Use of Rogue DNS servers are on the rise.
- Americans are Dumb: only about 30% of Americans think nanotechnology is morally acceptable (despite nanotech having nothing to with anything controversial, moral, or religious). Quoted from here: This is akin to questioning whether metallurgy is morally acceptable..
- 10 things to do with your now-defunct HD-DVD player.
- Good list of Windows Mobile apps (I hope to get a Windows Mobile device after my Blackberry contract expires in August).
- According to the RIAA, music piracy is a gateway to drug dealing and terrorism.
- Really nice desktop wallpapers.
- Give life to an old laptop with cheap or free projects (I know I’ve linked to these kinds of pages before, but Lifehacker’s stuff is always top-notch).
- Why you should never trust the Geek Squad or Firedog.
- Use googlemail.com address with gmail to lessen spam.
- Ten DIY Car Hacks.
- Save space when dual booting.
- The worst designed web site in the world.
- How to Build a Digital Music Server.
- A quick look a gOS (just don’t call it GoogleOS).
- CMSWatch content technology vendor map.
- How to fix that gizmo you dropped in the toilet.
- What to expect from Thunderbird 3.0.
- Sync your Google Calendar and Outlook automatically.
- Get better network performance with application-aware quality of service (QoS)..
- I’d never call myself a stud programmer, but I know horribly stupid code when I see it.
- Put PuTTY in your system tray.
- Use Unix command in the Windows command prompt.
Holy Crap: Oregon Made The NCAA Tournament
I didn’t think they’d do it, but they actually managed a 9 seed and will play Mississippi State in the first round of the South bracket of the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament. North Carolina (East), Memphis (South), UCLA (West) and Kansas (Midwest) took the #1 seeds.
I Don’t Remember Ryan Longwell Being Married To Queen’s Front Man
NFL kicker Ryan Longwell is many things (including a former Bend High School standout). But when Wikipedia said that he is married to the late Freddie Mercury and had kids named Skeeter and Dermit, that was news to me (screen shot below as this will probably prompt somebody at Wikipedia to change the article):
It appears that the Freddie Mercury reference was added last month as it was different before. It was changed by somebody at the IP address 69.81.255.220, which is owned by an Earthlink branch in Neenah, Wisconsin. My guess: Since Longwell doesn’t play for Green Bay Packers anymore, it was a crazy Cheesehead who made that edit (even though he was signed by the Minnesota Vikings a couple years ago and the edit only recently appeared).
Just In Case You Hadn’t Heard…
…a woman was stuck to the toilet seat for two years.
Yes, I read this a few days ago (thanks to the dozens of folks who sent it my way), and yes I’m a bit slow in posting it (like there was anyplace you couldn’t find the news). Real life has interfered with blogging the last few days. That, and I watched the Ducks throw away their tournament hopes, so that took a bit of time, so my guess is I won’t see them in my bracket (remember that Selection Sunday is coming up).