Rook: 1995 - 2011
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2010 NCAA® March Madness®
Well, my bracket was more than busted! It was thrown to the floor, stomped on, and broken into dozens of little pieces. I did pick some "Cinderellas" like St. Mary's but who would have thought Cornell, Murray St, or Ohio would have even won their first round game (Cornell and St. Mary's made it into the Sweet 16). UNI's win over Kansas was another surprise. Unfortuantely, I had Kansas winning it all. After the first weekend, I had 350 points out of 640 using the scoring system from the ESPN Tournament Challenge. After the second weekend, only one of my Final Four picks (Michigan State) was still alive so I did not even bother scoring the round. :-(
That said, I thought 2010 produced a great tournament full of upsets and underdogs. Even through I did not pick them, I was pleased to see Butler in the championship game and cheered for them against Duke. (Does anybody cheer for Duke except students and alums?) With the game literally going down to the last shot as the buzzer sounded, who could have asked for a better finish to the tournament? Congrats to Duke for yet another championship and to Butler for reminding us March Madness is not all about power conferences and big bucks.
2009 NCAA® March Madness®
I enjoyed watching the tounament this year but I was disappointed a "Cinderella" did not come out of the brackets. As for my own bracket, a fairly pedestrian performance: Of the 63 games (the play-in game is typically a freebie), I correctly picked winners in 51 games which gave me 1430 points using the scoring system from the ESPN Tournament Challenge. At least I beat President Obama and Tony Kornheiser.
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One of our pastimes is playing first person shooters such as the games in the Quake series. Every now and then, we come across something that someone has "updated" for the FPS genre. This particular piece has been around for a while but we still get a laugh out of it.
My Foobar Redux
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While I still like the small desktop footprint of my original foobar theme, I find the design a bit cumbersome when navigating though the various tabs. This new theme covers a bit more desktop real estate but I am just a single click from any playlist or feature. Two playlist views are included in the theme, a "grouped by album" view and a tracklist view. I also added a few custom buttons, the new visualization elements and foosion's Text Display UI element (to display lyrics). I usually size the foobar2000 window to 800 x 600 but maximizing the window to 1600 x 1200 will reveal additional columns for Last Played, Play Count, Style, Tag Matrix, and Item Index.
Download the file (18 KB) which includes the latest version of my foobar theme, my custom button image files, and my current "no cover" image.