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Productivity's Respite

Posted on 2nd April, 2005 at 4:25pm by joel

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Gee, and with a whole week between games, one would think that I could get a lot more done than I actually did. Go figure.

After some of the best tournament basketball games in history, I was faced with a whole week to get actual work done. I would love to say that the excitement of Sunday’s games carried over and kept me too giddy to properly work on this website, but that would be a lie. I was far too busy trying to appear productive while catching up on a weekend’s worth of reading put off by my trip home for Easter. On the bright side, I did get a lot of work done last night at the office making IE cooperate with my CSS. I’ve got a write-up brewing in my head right now on the quirks I found. Best of all, tonight the games are back on and productivity takes a nap until tomorrow.

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Productivity Round 2

Posted on 23rd March, 2005 at 8:24pm by joel

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We've now seen 48 of the 63 games played already, and I haven't become completely worthless... yet. That said, how's the bracket?

Well, the first two rounds of the Big Dance are now over. My bracket is still breathing and my productivity is slowly coming back—just in time for tournament rounds three and four this weekend. Wake Forest made me very unhappy on Saturday, but Wisconsin-Milwaukee made me very happy on Friday. My Final Four isn’t looking so good, but my Sweet 16 has the potential to either kick total ass or make me miserable. There is far more green on this year’s bracket than on any bracket of mine that I can ever remember. I’m stunned.

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Frickin' Genius

Posted on 23rd March, 2005 at 4:52pm by joel

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One of these days, I'll have my work in the finest museums in the world…even if I have to put it there myself. Whaa? That's been done? D'oh.

File this one under “why in the hell didn’t I think of that?” A certain artist has decided that the best way to get his work into some of the finest museums in the world is to place it there himself. Seriously.

Bansky, as he’s known, donned a disguise and literally walked right into the Met, the Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MoMA in New York City and placed one of his pieces on the wall in each, complete with frame and description card. Two of these renegade pieces have been discovered and removed, yet two remain. For how long? We may never know.

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