Tag: General

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Rituals

Now that the basketball season is over, I can talk about my rituals and superstitions. You see, during the season, I have a pattern of things I have to do in order for the Louisville Cardinals to win. If I talk about these things during the season, they lose.

This was the first season I didn’t wear any UofL clothing on a game day. I couldn’t even touch it. Last season I always worse UofL clothing, and the Cards didn’t do as well as anyone had hoped.

Next, I always got Gray to say “Go Cards” on the day of a game (though when he says it, it sounds more like, “Go Tards”). The one day he didn’t say it was the day Louisville lost to Memphis at home. This was also the day I had a 102 degree fever and couldn’t participate in my next ritual.

Every game except 2 this season, I sat on the edge of the coffee table in out living room. Same spot, same position.

Lastly, I had to tell Alicia that there was an important game on the next day at such and such a time. The one day I didn’t do this was that same Memphis loss.

So what about the 3 earlier losses in the season? Well, none of them happened after Christmas, so they don’t really count. The pre-Christmas season is the time in which routines are established, so there is a little room for error.

Call me crazy or obsessive, but this is what you get when you are born in North Carolina and raised in Kentucky.

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FINAL FOUR!!!!!!!

YEEEAAAAAHHHH!!!

What an insane game. West Virginia made so many three-pointers it seemed impossible. Geez, Louise.

Now Louisville faces Illinois, which I think will be the end of the season. I’m just glad they made it this far. Whew!

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More Crain Stuff

Thanks to the venerable Bob Weston, I now have a copy of Crain playing live WMBR radio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This was recorded by Bob at the radio station after we were done playing at Hampshire College (if my memory serves me correctly), which put it at about 3am. The date was some time in April, 1992, on the Speed LP tour de mayhem.

I also recently learned that the re-issue of Speed will be available on the iTunes Music Store whenever they get around to adding it.

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ANNOYING!

That was extremely frustrating. I was pulling my hair out for 2.5 hours, watching the little box with the score of the games not being shown. CBS chose not to show the Louisville game here, favoring Puke instead (of course). They cut over to it with 13.9 seconds left, which was long enough for me to watch Francisco Garcia and Taquan Dean make free throws to clinch the win.

At least it was a win. An ugly win, but that doesn’t matter now. They are in round two, which is good news.

Oh, and Clarke Kellog, eat dirt!

Go Cards!

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Link Goodness

Allrighty, how about a little linkitudinal updatage going on here?

First, for those of you in the Asheville area, I have for you perhaps the best online weather info available. Current NCDC Weather Conditions provides you with current data from atop the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. There are also links to regional radar maps (loopable) and lots of other cool weather geek info. I have an inside track on this sort of thing these days, which makes me even geekier. I know you are jealous.

Montage-A-Google is a neat way of creating photo montages by searching with Google Images.

If the news that Microsoft is finally releasing an update to its bug-ridden, non-compliant, piece of doo security threat called Internet Explorer (for XP users only, mind you) isn’t enough to make you crumple over with a hernia from laughing, check out their “A parent’s primer to computer slang” article.

Key points for learning leetspeek

  • Numbers are often used as letters

40w 08|?10U$, M@N.

And about the Internet Explorer thing, it’s not really a new version of the browser, it’s a service pack. Looks like they are feeling a wee bit threatened by someone.

In case you didn’t know, you can opt out of a lot of credit card junk mail. It’s your legal right, so do it.

Lastly, for those of you who need to surf the Internet in style, I give you Pimpzilla the bling-bling Firefox theme.

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Pics and Stuff

I have resurrected the image gallery portion of this site. Woohoo! Lots of pictures for all 4 visitors to look at. Check out Will’s Ye Olde Photo Gallery.

At first I installed Gallery to manage the photos. I tried Gallery out about 3 years ago and wasn’t that impressed. Since then it seems to have made a lot of progress. It installs easily and seems to be rather easy to manage. However, there is one big problem with it that bugged me: it’s not Web Standards compliant. The features offered in Gallery were almost enough to allow me to ignore this, but in the end, my morals took over and I ditched it for something better.

Enter Simple PHP Gallery, which you might have seen used on this site before. This program too has made leaps and bounds of progress since I last used it. It was so easy to install (upload and go), I thought I was launching rubber frogs from a Turkish catapult. No, I don’t know what that means either.

Granted, Simple PHP Gallery doesn’t have quite as many features as Gallery. However, it makes up for that in other ways. Not only does it validate as XHTML Strict, it was pretty easy to integrate into my site’s existing design. This was not true of the program last time I tried it, nor is it true of Gallery.

Additionally, Simple PHP Gallery has a much smaller footprint on the server in both speed and size. Taking advantage of PHP’s GD Library, it creates thumbnails and resizes images on the fly. Oh, did I mention it validates as XHTML Strict???

Anyway, keep an eye on Will’s Ye Olde Photo Gallery for lots of kewl stuff. I just uploaded the first batch of pics from my new Nokia 3620 camera phone, and am impressed with the resolution for a free phone. There are also some new pics from my Olympus C5050 and my Sony Handycam.

Geez, this took forever to say all this stuff. I gotta stop this stream-of-conscience writing thing.

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