March Madness

My friend Caitlin informs me that I am currently leading in her NCAA pool. This my friends, is a shocker. No one, and I mean no one, has a more convluted bracket than I do. But I guess that's why it's called March Madness...=)

Speaking of, Slate has an interesting article explaining where the name came from.

George Mason plays Michigan State tonight, and I'm trying to figure out where I want to watch the game from. My friend Lindsey has changed our meeting location from Fairfax to Woodbridge, which means moving from home turf (where everyone will be watching the game) to a place an hour and a half's drive south in rush hour traffic. Social life vs. dead clutch foot? I ponder. Some of you may be wondering, "But Chris, you don't give two shits about basketball! Why now?" Well, because GMU is in the NCAA, and believe it or not, but I actually like watching college basketball when it's on. Lots of ball movement and strategy as opposed to the NBA. And it feels good to support your school team.

I'll probably head out of here in a bit, let's see if I actually decide to do anything tonight...=P

Tron!

I normally make a point of avoiding Tom's Hardware, but this was actually a neat article. I still detect their usual bias, but in this case it's well deserved. Take a look here at the making of Tron, and if you haven't seen it, do so! =)

Oh, and something completely different.

Robots and Macs.

It's March, and if you live in the D.C. area that means that the Cherry Blossom Festival is coming up. I have to admit, I don't think it will be as fun not having Lauren around, but I still plan on going up to do some picture taking and hopefully catch some of the festival as well. Last year it was cloudy for most of the day, but I'm hoping this year it will be a bit sunnier. I'm planning on going up the weekend of April 1st and 2nd, so let me know if you're interested.

Speaking of which, Neowin.net has their March Digital Photography thread going, and it actually looks pretty impressive this month.

Microsoft put up a new site called "10" which is supposed to compliment their Channel 9 site. They say the site is "...for people who want to use technology to change the world."

This, is just what I was looking for...=)

It has videos showing interviews, shorts, or just little info pieces on what people are doing in the world of tech. Kinda nifty just to browse around, I'm hoping the forums might provide some interesting discussion. I've already regiestered on the site under "ckozlowski" so feel free to look me up on there. Odd though that they chose to use Apple's Quicktime format for the videos instead of WMP. Wierd.

Chris sent me a link yesterday of the world first mech. I will be bringing one of these to the next neighborhood nerf gun battle. Watch out!!!

For those of you who were holding out on an iMac to see if it would boot Windows XP. It does. The $14,000 price was mailed out today to someone who successfully got Mac OSX and Windows XP to dual-boot on a Mac. The stars have finally alligned: You can now run all three major OSs (Linux, Windows, OSX) on the same machine. Awesome!

...and that's about it from me for now. Ciao!

Update: Oh, almost forgot! Your daily dose of Zen.

Stuff.

What a week. I've been putting this update off for far too long; just can't bring myself to write despite the fact I've found a bunch of cool stuff here and there. I'm gonna keep this short though, not feelin' the wit today.

Aviation Week and Space Technology had a neat article up about the Blackstar system and a "rod from god". No, it's not dirty, you perverts...=P

The Transformers have gone steampunk. I'm not so sure about this one.

Meh. I have vulnerability scanning to do. I'll close this here...

But not before your daily dose of Zen.