College
basketball article that Jason sent me

My favorite line:
“Duke is so dominant that Coach K leaves during halftime to film a
Burger King commercial with Hootie and the Dallas Cowboys
cheerleaders.”

I got some Skittles from the vending machine. There’s a contest. If
all the Skittles have a picture of Shrek on them, you win $10,000.
Unfortunately, the contest ended 12/31/04. I’d have been really pissed
if I opened up the Skittles to find a bunch of Shrek Skittles.

The Skittles may be a bit old, but they’re still quite yummy.

Speaking of contests, I will need all of the favored seeds to win
tonight to maintain my position at the top of the SI.com contest.

It’s all well and good that in this day and age, one can’t smoke in the workplace. Too bad smokers can’t be forced to shower and change clothes after smoke breaks. The smell is just nasty. Sorry smokers, but it is.

It’s so nice to get a paycheck from an employer direct deposited and on time. It’s so much easy working for TekSystems than for Rectangular Prism (damn that legal mumbo jumbo)…and no, you cannot disparage Rectangular Prism on my behalf…unless you do it very, very careful. I should be getting something from those assholes soon, at long last.

PS – That icon of the money…actual photo of money in my possession, after I “beat the squirrel” in Vegas a few years ago. There was this ridiculous slot machine at the Boardwalk called “Gettin’ Nutty” or something like that. While the other guys were packing up and getting ready to leave at the end of the trip, I was playing Gettin’ Nutty. It should be said that my total lifetime net is probably a loss in the amount pictured…

A certain someone recently told me they wished I could relax a bit. I just watched Eurotrip on HBO. That counts, I think. Movie snob that I am, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Nice to see Michelle Trachtenberg showing some range. No, really…all she did was pout on Buffy as Dawn.

3/4 done with Week 2 in Fort Mill/Pineville…

People should write the IMAX theater director in Charleston to tell
her that they won’t be visiting Charleston, let alone her theater, if
the locals are such IDIOTS
[This is what I'm talking about...]

Wouldn’t a simple disclaimer that the “views” (er, science) presented
in the film do not constitute an endorsement by the theater?

Lisa Buzzelli, Theatre Director, lbuzzelli@charlestonimax.com

One of the most disgraceful things I’ve learned in the past day or so
is that Governor Bush signed a law in Texas in 1999 that gave
hospitals the right to terminate patients on life support if a board
of ethics determined there was no chance of improvement…unless the
patient’s guardian could afford to transfer the patient to another
facility within ten days. Throw in all the Texas executions, Iraq, the
easings of environmental protections…this President and his minions
don’t give a shit about life. They give a shit about Terri Schiavo’s
life because the GOP is in danger of losing 25 seats in the 2006
election.

[ Laura Flanders says it all far more eloquently than I can... ]

From: SI.com Fantasy Sports
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:03:02 -0600
Subject: Re: SI.com General Question

Thanks for the email. There are just over 100,000 entries in the Bracket Challenge.

After round two, I’m #1 in SI’s pool. I don’t get anything for that, except the privilege of saying that I’m #1…

In the midst of feeling like sh-t, I am 5th in CNNSI.com’s NCAA pool. ESPN has millions of entries. CNNSI has to have at least tens of thousands, although they don’t say anywhere. They only give prizes to the top three…

My CNNSI bracket (8/8 in Saturday’s games)

Prizes