Video of the Day: Scarface School Play

(H/T Good Mom/Bad Mom)

Seriously… WTF?

(Short blurb on the video over at Mashable.)

How unoriginal…

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Your Prank Is: Setting off stink bombs

And that's how you should celebrate April Fool's Day

What April Fool's Prank Should You Play?

Blogthings: Cheaper Than a Therapist

Yea, really, that’s the best they could come up with… so sad. :(

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Bracket Update

So here’s how my bracket is shaping up:

Kansas (My national champion) is out, but Kentucky, Baylor, and Kansas St. are still alive.

Obama, whose bracket I declared a week ago that I would beat, has Kentucky and Kansas St. still alive in his Final Four, and we both have Kentucky making the championship game.

Obama has 590 points, I have 640.

But, since any points Obama scores from here on out would also score for me, it’s impossible for him to beat me.

Mission. Accomplished.

About the new look

Yesterday, I got an email from Blogger (who never, ever emails me about stuff) announcing their new Template Designer.

So I took a look at it and fell in love with the new, uber-customizable templates they offer.

After playing around with it for a while, this is what I came up with. I really, really, like it.

I’m curious what my three readers think about it. Leave me a note in the comments…

Prairie dogs!

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This will be the last Friday Photo I do with the tagline thingy up top… it’s time for it to go.

Aren’t they cute?

You got this from 5’10”? Really?

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Your Height Says You're Intuitive

You are a gifted communicator, and you understand other people well. You are compassionate and empathetic. You feel other's pain a little too easily. Because of your open heart and open mind, many people admire and adore you. You are classy and well mannered. You have the art of charm mastered. You are about as tall as the average Australian man.

What Does Your Height Say About You?

The First Rule of Blogthings Is: You Don't Talk About Blogthings

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The first round is over and I’m beating Obama!

My bracket’s doing quite well. 26 of the 32 first-round games right and I’ve only lost two Sweet 16 teams, nobody I had going any deeper.

This year, I’ve only got one measuring stick. One goal with my bracket. To do better than Obama. And, so far, I’m succeeding. He got 25 of 32 and he’s lost an Elite 8 team…

Yay me!

And now for a much smaller bird

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Continental drops free in-flight meals, makes Dwight Silverman sob.

It all started with @dsilverman posting a link to an article about Continental dropping free in-flight meals for coach passengers. Here’s his tweet:

RT @HoustonChron: Continental drops free lunches for passengers in coach http://bit.ly/a0UmTN | And I just may drop Continental.

I responded:

@dsilverman I won't fly anything but @SouthwestAir. Hobby's a hell of a lot easier to deal with and I don't really care about "perks"

And Dwight said:

@FatElvis04 i love the cheeseburgers on Continental. you even get a little salad. or used to. *sob*

And I fired back:

@dsilverman Dwight can haz cheezburger? Now you've given me a craving for one. I'm blaming you for any trips to Hamburger Depot today...

And then the idea for this came to me:

Shot of the plane from mrkathika’s Flickr account.
Dwight’s picture from TechBlog.

Star Wars name

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Quite possibly the most confusing one I’ve done yet.

Your Star Wars Name Is Jusya Adbea

Your Star Wars Title Is Hguswe of Refinnej

What Is Your Star Wars Name and Title?

Blogthings: We Have a Quiz for Almost Everything

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Puma’s knee needs to be cleaned out, could miss Opening Day

Damn:

Astros first baseman Lance Berkman will undergo surgery to remove loose particles from his left knee and will miss two to four weeks.

[…]

It's unknown whether Berkman will be ready for Opening Day.

[…]

"We're probably looking at two to four weeks," general manager Ed Wade said. "Whether or not he's going to be ready for Opening Day really just depends on the healing process. They haven't even gone in yet, so it's too early to tell, but the normal timeframe would be two to four weeks. We'll see where it flows from there."

Well, at least they’re dealing with this now instead of sometime in June or July. Get well soon, Big Puma!

Big bird

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The condor’s getting his nom’s on…

New toilet design could help the environment. But will men like it?

As far as the environment is concerned, your #1 isn’t #1.

Thankfully, those crazy Europeans have found a solution for the problem. Read about it over at SciGuy.

Realistically, I could never see something like this being implemented on a wide scale. It would just cost way too much money to be worth it…

Well, that and I prefer to stand when I pee.

Reflections on Spring Training

As I’m sitting here reflecting on the tidbits I’ve heard so far from Kissimmee, the Astros are currently sitting at 3-3 through spring training. But what can I take from that?

Not much.

If they were 1-5 or 0-6 so far, then maybe I’d be concerned. I feel for the nine teams with just one win and the Nationals, who are sitting at 0-7 right now.

It’s still pretty early on in the game. Starters are throwing only two or three innings and surely don’t have their best stuff going yet. Everybody else is still shaking off some rust from the winter months. Nobody’s anywhere close to the top of their game, though I suppose hitters would have a little bit of an advantage as it shouldn’t take them nearly as long to find their groove.

There’s really not, in my mind, a huge window where you can look at teams during spring training and judge how good they’re really going to be. That window falls towards the beginning of the last week of spring training. I’d say the whole week, but the last two or three games there are players in the games that are fighting for that 25th roster spot.

So, realistically, you’re talking about a five-game window in my mind.

If they go 1-4 or 0-5 through that window, THEN I’ll be worried.

Video of the day: 2012

From SNL:

Please tell me I’m not an emo one, because that would just kill all the badassery of being a vampire.

Welcome to Stupid Quiz Sunday, in which I'll take an online quiz that may or may not be stupid and post the results.

You Are A Vampire

You have a real thirst for bliss, and you consider yourself a true hedonist. And you're not afraid to walk alone in life, if it means getting what you truly crave. You truly enjoy entrancing people. Not to mention the ensuing pleasures of the flesh. Your tastes have been called decadent and bizarre. You usually give in to your temptations, no matter how primal Your greatest power: Your flawless ability to seduce and charm Your greatest weakness: Human flesh You play well with: Werewolves

What Kind of Monster Are You?

Blogthings: A Fine Line Between Insight and Stupidity

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(Wild) Dog Blogging

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Well, ok, not really a dog. More like a Mexican Wolf:

Yes, I’m starting in on my photos from the Phoenix Zoo. I did eventually find the card. Two weeks later, after I’d ordered a replacement.

It’s a good thing we’re here to help nature!

So today Obama lays out plans to restore the Gulf Coast from:

…the catastrophic dangers of rising sea levels, hurricanes and erosion on the Gulf Coast, and backed efforts to invest in restoring barriers islands and wetlands in Mississippi and Louisiana.

A thought on the barrier islands and wetlands that I’ve always wondered…

Hurricanes have “always” happened, right? And they’d do damage to the wetlands and barrier islands in the past, right?

Logic would say so.

And didn’t those same barrier islands and wetlands eventually restore themselves without our help?

I’d think so…

So why are we doing anything?