big day
Happy nth birfday to Ma Bungle! I can still remember when we first met -- Bill Clinton was our leader, the internet consisted of a coupla message boards for Xena: Warrior Princess, and Larry the Cable Guy was thankfully still installing cable boxes. Osama Bin Laden was still frequenting titty bars. Believe it or not, Val Kilmer was Batman. It was a simpler time and you knew where you stood. I was but a humble shuffler of tapes and you were just a cute li'l office tart that caught my eye. Well it's (n-x) years later and you're still the hot topic in the water cooler conversation of my heart. Here's to 6.0221415 × 1023 more!
I am in deeper swampwater than usual in our ofice NCAA pool. I filled mine out with like 8 seconds left on the 35 second clock, and it shows. I actally forgot who West Virginia was and had them losing in the first or second round in both of my pools. Then within like ten minutes of the deadline passing, I remembered Pittsnogle & Gansey and several other reasons why I should have been pulling for WVU. Dammit. I will root for them anyway. 'Snogle it, just a little bit!
Here's an interesting tidbit for HDTV owners. I've been watching the tourney games on channel 702, which is CBS's HD channel. So the games are in beautiful HD blah blah. But I noticed that CBS was sticking with regionally-mandated games even longer than usual, so I flipped over to channel 2, the SD CBS entry. And wouldn't you know it, the SD channel was cutting away to the game I wanted to see, while the HD channel wasn't! So I guess they are still figuring that shit out a little bit. At first I was pissed because I've been watching nothing but 702 and so I've missed lots of thrilling finishes. But then I realized: I now have a CHOICE of which channel to watch when games are going down to the wire. So it's (almost) like having two separate NCAA tournament channels, albeit only for the last few minutes of certain games. Check it out next weekend if you get a chance, although it's more handy for the early rounds.
I had a lot of interesting things to say this weekend, but then I forgot them all.
Eight genius points for the person who can guess how many beers I drank this weekend.
I am in deeper swampwater than usual in our ofice NCAA pool. I filled mine out with like 8 seconds left on the 35 second clock, and it shows. I actally forgot who West Virginia was and had them losing in the first or second round in both of my pools. Then within like ten minutes of the deadline passing, I remembered Pittsnogle & Gansey and several other reasons why I should have been pulling for WVU. Dammit. I will root for them anyway. 'Snogle it, just a little bit!
Here's an interesting tidbit for HDTV owners. I've been watching the tourney games on channel 702, which is CBS's HD channel. So the games are in beautiful HD blah blah. But I noticed that CBS was sticking with regionally-mandated games even longer than usual, so I flipped over to channel 2, the SD CBS entry. And wouldn't you know it, the SD channel was cutting away to the game I wanted to see, while the HD channel wasn't! So I guess they are still figuring that shit out a little bit. At first I was pissed because I've been watching nothing but 702 and so I've missed lots of thrilling finishes. But then I realized: I now have a CHOICE of which channel to watch when games are going down to the wire. So it's (almost) like having two separate NCAA tournament channels, albeit only for the last few minutes of certain games. Check it out next weekend if you get a chance, although it's more handy for the early rounds.I had a lot of interesting things to say this weekend, but then I forgot them all.
Eight genius points for the person who can guess how many beers I drank this weekend.
posted by hans q. bungle at 01:19
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