Archive: March 2007

• Photos / Bridge and Bay panoramas in flickr, visual · Mar 20, 21:35

  The weather has been getting nicer, so I’ve been jumping at any chance to ride my bike. Last Thursday morning, I rode across the Golden Gate Bridge and up into the Marin Headlands as the sun was coming up, and I stopped to take some photos as it was peeking above the horizon.
  When I [...]

• March Madness / My bracket, with explanations in basketball, kansas basketball · Mar 13, 02:26

  UPDATE 1: A couple of changed picks; UPDATE 2: Some eerie resemblances my bracket and those of SI writers; UPDATE 4: Surveying the carnage: Thoughts after the first two rounds
  Here’s the bracket that I made on the Monday after the seedings were announced.

  UPDATE: Since Monday, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading up on [...]

• Online adventures / my Flickr hecklr in flickr · Mar 9, 20:24

  Earlier this week, I noticed that there had been a lot of activity on my Flickr photos. Someone named “furgurl” had commented roughly 50 times, and the comments themselves were pretty unusual. Most were lengthy, not the standard “OMG!” or “nice shot!” or whatever. They were also all lower-case, filled with misspellings and weird punctuation, [...]

• ESPN.com / March (information) madness in ixd · Mar 6, 21:57

  To the editors of ESPN.com,
  I visit your site every day, multiple times a day. Today, I decided that I’ve had enough. You need to stop. Whatever you’re doing, just STOP.
  Years ago, ESPN.com was a useful collection of online sports information. It was relatively easy to navigate, scan and read. Today, it is a dark, [...]

• Pre-post-season thoughts / Containing Kevin Durant in basketball, kansas basketball · Mar 5, 20:57

  In a previous post, I suggested that the Kansas defense must “contain” Kevin Durant, thereby implying that Kevin Durant could, in fact, be contained. I said: “he’s going to get 10-15 points no matter what you do,” and anything in excess of that was a matter of the opposing team’s defense shutting him down. Against [...]

• Big Saturday / KU-UT thoughts and predictions in basketball, kansas basketball · Mar 1, 21:09

  Watching the Longhorns repeatedly (and ultimately successfully) drive a stake into the heart of Acie Law IV last night, I got to thinking about Saturday’s showdown between the Longhorns and the Hawks. (I also penciled in A&M for the Final Four. Is there any team in the nation — other than UCLA, I guess — [...]