Now 23-14. Told you I suck. Best games of yesterday were the upsets of Syracuse and Kansas, and the best shot of the night was Vermont’s Sorrentine’s three ball from another zip code. Tech won! ACC is undefeated in the first round. After watching Duke struggle in the first half against Delaware St. before pulling away, it occurs to me that they are a much weaker team without the helping hand of ACC officiating. Too bad I picked them. If they both make it, the UNC game will be interesting.
Painting
I am slowly painting my bedroom. Sunday night I did the wall prep, taping, and a coat of primer. Last night I painted half of the walls. That is, two entire walls, not the top or bottom half of four walls. The silvery blue color looks pretty good dried, and most importantly, it covers the lovely heart-laced border. In the meantime, I’m sleeping in the guest bedroom. It’s fun: like going on vacation without really going on vacation and still having to go to work.
After one official night of play in the tournament, my bracket is sad. Including the play-in, I am 10-8 (one loss next round for Pitt). One 5-12 was already an upset; the other three games happen today including the all-important GW-GT. Should be exciting. I’ll be updating my earlier post to reflect missed guesses, not that it really matters since I’m not in any pools.
Yesterday was St. Patrick’s day. My people appreciate your drunken perpetuation of stereotypes.
Recycled garbage is still garbage
Am I the only one that was sick of mash-ups long before the term was coined?
NCAA picks
Here is my ACC-heavy bracket for the tournament. I always suck at these.
Network stacks love me.
Hmmm, think my app is network I/O bound? EJBs are great!
$ time ./run.sh
real 139m37.320s
user 8m13.141s
sys 1m53.364s
Prepared
Bring it on Osama!
TV links
Geekery
What do you do when your college plays at 2pm and you are stuck at work with no TV around? You write a CGI to grab screenshots from your TV so you can watch it on a webpage, of course.
#! /bin/sh
echo Content-type: image/jpeg
echo
mplayer -frames 1 -vo jpeg -nosound /dev/video >/dev/null 2>&1
cat 00000001.jpg
ACC Party
The ACC party at Dream last night was lots of fun. In attendance were: the mayor (allegedly), ex-Terp Juan Dixon (tall), FSU cheerleaders (whom I will marry one day), Smashmouth (…), and Buzz! Smashmouth is not my favorite band, to say the least. In fact it was pretty telling that their best songs were the two Van Halen covers — “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” and “Runnin’ With The Devil” — and the seminal party favorite House O’ Pain jumping song. But hey, we all had a good time.
Here is the equivalent of 17000 words: pictures.
Lately
Last night I had dinner with Joe, Jessica, and Jerome. This alliterative bunch was nice enough to treat me to dinner for getting older. Good food, good times. I only mention it because Jerome told me I had to blog it. I think that is now the standard price of admission.
In other news, SounDriver might be over for good now. Bass player extraordinaire Paul “Two Hands” C. has announced today that he will be taking a hiatus with all of the looming business and marriage commitments he is facing. He will be sorely missed. We haven’t officially decided what to do next.
And tonight is the mayor’s ACC party at Dream. I don’t have any idea how dressy the affair is supposed to be, so I think I’m pretty close to the average of casual and suit: fashionable monotone sweater with exposed collar and slacks (Scorpio-style jeans and sportcoat also acceptable). Anyway it should be good: Smashmouth, that’s the band with the “rockstar” song (according to the organizer), will be providing music along with DJ Rob Or Some Other Bland First Name, and drinks are free…ly obtained by plunking down lots of money at the cash bar.