I just found out that Ryan Adams’ new CD, Cold Roses won’t be out until May 3. Originally it was supposed to be April 19. At least now it is supposed to be a double disc album.
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Archives for the month of: March, 2005
<p>I now have no teams left in my bracket. I am done. No more points. Not going to win. Oh well. To make matters worse, though, Chloe is in first place by 10 points.</p>
Today’s Dilbert was extra funny.
I was reading a book last night by some lawyer and he said:
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<p>The transmission of email usually doesn’t jeopardize confidentiality, because each message is broken into packets of information and reassembled at the delivery point, making it difficult to intercept.</p>
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<p>He went on to say that the “scary” part of email is storage. Meaning that if you are afraid someone is going to read your email, you need to protect your inbox because that is where the “theft” is going to occur.</p>
<p>I laughed out loud when I read this because I don’t think he could be more wrong about email. To me, the scary thing about email is that, just as he says, “each message is broken into packets of information and reassembled at the delivery point.” Each packet travels as part of the whole across the internet for anyone to see. Of course you may say to yourself, I have never seen anyones email packets traveling across the internet. Let me promise you this: some has seen your packets! The delivery of email is similar to asking different people you don’t know to deliver a book to your friend (which they don’t know where he is) one page at a time. Along their journey to deliver the page, they would stop and ask people, “Is this page destined to you? Do you know where I can find the final destination.” In addition, the <a href='http://www.courier-mta.org/'>courier</a> would let anyone along the road read it that wanted to.</p>
<p>I am much more worried about someone along the road stopping and reading my mail than someone breaking into my apartment or computer to read the email that has already made the treacherous journey to my machine.</p>
Is anyone eating Frosted Mini Wheats? They have a promotion to send in 7 UPC codes (from the bottom of the box) and get a free Star Wars – Episode 1. I already happen to have this title, but can’t pass up a GREAT deal when I see one. If anyone happens to have any extra Frosted Mini Wheat UPCs, would you mind sending them my way. I need 4 more.
It is no surprise to anyone that Adam and I are competitive with each other and when one of us wins (or in this case, is ahead) we like to make sure everyone else knows. So in that spirit, I would like to update everyone on the eightfivethree pick’em. First, congratulations to Chloe, she is in first place after this wild weekend. Jacob has earned second place. I rounded out the top three, which is unbelievable since I only have about 3 teams left in the tournament. This recap clearly shows that I am ahead of Adam (makes you wonder where the key he claims to have was during his selections). This will be, barring any (more) miracles, the last time I am ahead of him, so I will enjoy these next 4 days.
<p>The pick’em has come down to whoever gets the winner. If Illinois wins, Chloe wins with second place far behind. If North Carolina wins, Adam probably wins. If it’s Duke – it’s Jacob. Since Gonzaga and the Jayhawks took an early exit, Rachel and I (respectively) are pretty much out. I am now rooting for Oklahoma St. since I had them loosing in the finals to KU.</p>
<p>By the way, even after not getting all my picks right today, the scenario generator says I will win if I get the rest of my picks right. And given my current track record in this year’s tournament, it isn’t out of the question.</p>
<p>Oh, and big exciting news for the eventual winner: I got a few new prizes yesterday while at my cousin’s house. Her husband is a drug representative for Ambian, so the winner will be getting a pen that is actually a flashlight and an alarm clock that doubles as a stopwatch.</p>
So I ran into a little trouble in my bracket last night with KU losing its very first game. I don’t think too many people saw that one coming. I am not too worried, though, because I ran the “Scenario Generator” and found that if I get the rest of my picks right (which isn’t out of the question) I will win the pick’em (for the second straight year, I might add) by 34 points over Adam.
This is pretty cool. I can subscribe to my Gmail using netnewswire (or any Atom-enabled newsreader).
Band: Eli Young Band
Song: When it rains (listen)
First, and most importantly, you have until tomorrow at 11:15 CST to sign up for the eightfivethree pick’em AND get your picks in. Rachel says I have to put what prizes I will be giving away this year, so let me tell you what you will be playing for: 1g and 1 green iron bracer sent via standard mail. I won’t win this year, unless the Big 12 dominates. But since I won last year, it would be hard for me to expect people to come back year after year just to lose.
<p>Also, I saw <a href='http://www.rubyonrails.com/'>Ruby on Rails</a> yesterday. WOW! I need to take some time to learn this. This could cut development time by amazing amounts. Have you tried <a href='http://www.basecamphq.com'>Basecamp</a>? I am guessing not, but Ruby on Rails was developed by them somehow and Basecamp is quite a work of art.</p>
<p>I am really busy right now. I have a paper/presentation next week over a topic somewhat related to “the u.s. law and encryption”, or rather, “how you know when you have broken the law.” It is pretty fun trying to learn what programmers can and can’t do, but just recently the government loosened its grip on the powerful munition of encryption. So really, it is quite open (which is VERY IMPORTANT), but make for a boring report and even more boring presentation. The DMCA, however, is full of stuff you can legally do as a researcher/programmer, but will still certainly get sued over and therefore not actually get to do it.</p>
<p>Rachel and I have been renting Nip/Tuck and Deadwood from Blockbuster (joined the all you can watch per month) this past week. Both fun shows. It is so much nicer watching the shows on DVD. No commercials and you can watch them whenever you want. I have a feeling this is going to catch on.</p>
<p>I downloaded all 2.6 GB of <a href='http://www.sxsw.com'>SXSW</a> showcase music via bittorrent recently. It took something like 5 days to do so and there is way too much music to listen to. Hopefully I will find some indie band to like so everyone thinks I am sooooo cool since I like music that no one has ever heard of. Plugging all the songs into iTunes was pretty cool. I can select the album and then the genre that I want to listen to. It was a sad moment when I first listened to ‘Country.’ WHY DO I LIKE COUNTRY? It hurts just to say that (sorry to all you country fans, nothing wrong with it, it is just that when I tell people that I have to buy my music out of the country section they immediately ask me what I think Junior’s – Earnheart Jr. that is – chances at this weekends race are. And there is something wrong with NASCAR – I won’t apologize for that). I’ll keep you posted on my SXSW music findings.</p>