The Big East Bias
As a sports fan/guru, I have had it up to my follicles with this college basketball season.
Not so much the season as the actual polling process, and the top 25. Namely two items.
1. The lack of KU being ranked.
2. The Big East.
I don't get it. I'm sick to death of announcers saying how tough the Big East is. Well no shit. It better be tough because there are 192384713928 teams in the damn conference. Ok, not really that many, but there are 16 teams in the Big East. At last count, I believe 9 of them are ranked.
For the record, I don't have a problem with several of teams ranked from one conference. I have a problem when you've ranked HALF of the teams from one conference. As teams eat each other during conference play, the cream will definitely rise to the top, so we're going to have teams right around a .500 conference record taking up spots in the top 25? I mean really.
What really chaps my hide is, as of Wednesday, Georgetown was ranked 23rd. Ok, except G-town has a TWELVE AND SEVEN record. Seriously 7 losses. How can they still be ranked? This is the top 25 in the country. This is supposed to be the top 25 teams out of the 317 Division I schools. So you're saying that 12-7 is one of the better records?
Wait a second.
The defending national champions, my beloved Kansas Jayhawks, are sitting in the "others" category with a 15-4 record. Four losses, two to top 10 teams and they're not ranked? How the hell can this be? Sure I think the Big 12 is down a bit this year, but how can they not be ranked? Sure, they lost the starting 5 and top reserves from last season, but that's just a lack of respect for KU. Whoever said an east coast media bias didn't exist is wholly wrong.
Guru out.
The art of blowing up a computer
Well, I made a New Year's resolution to post more. And I was going to follow it, however, the TechnoGods had other ideas.
It was a Friday afternoon a couple of weeks back as I wanted to "borrow" a song. As I was trying to connect to my "borrowing" program, a pop-up window exploded, saying that I was infected with a virus. Now as I was looking at this and not paying close attention, I did notice that the pop-up window was in the same color scheme as my anti-virus program, AVG. I clicked the accept on a different pop-up.
Oops.
What I promptly clicked on was the "virusremover 2008" which promptly installed this program on my computer. Slapping my head hard on the desk, I realized I screwed up. Googling like a madman, I found how to remove this "program" as it was funneling pop-ups left and right onto my machine. I did what they said, but still had pop-ups erupting on my screen. Silently cussing, I ran my virus scanner again and dashed off to call a couple of games on the radio. When I got home, I noticed I still had freaking pop-ups. I decided to drop some Spybot Search and Destroy on this crap and kill it off, but I needed to update Spybot.
Oops Two.
In the update process, it said I needed to restart the computer. No problem I said. I restarted it and went to click Spybot to finish the update process when the computer restarted itself. Odd, I thought. Once again, I went through the start up process, and again, it restarted. After an hour and a half of that, I nearly ripped it from the desk. I called Jeremy for computer help and he said "Bring it over because it was computer triage weekend."
He spent the weekend working on it, finding another virus hidden deep that wiped out key software components. This virus screwed everything up so bad, Jer yanked my hard drive out and built me a new machine. After a week of not having my comp, I have a new, quicker machine that is stable.
What a saga.
the vundo
my computer is dead.
The Vundo wiped it out and we are burying it soon.
And I didn't walk
Thanks to infinite wisdom from WSU, the fall graduation er..commencement, took place on Sunday, Dec. 14. I had made a decision to not walk a long time ago because I put my friends and family through grad hell when I received my AA. So I didn't attend the ceremony. Not a big deal save for one minor glitch.
WSU's finals were the week after graduation. Good move there Shockerheads. It's feasible, that someone who walked, could not pass finals and therefore not graduate. Thankfully, I didn't walk, but now it's a waiting game to get my diploma in the mail.
I am no longer a student. It's been a long time coming and I have all of my friends to thank.
So to all of you,
Thank you for believing in me.
Quick Hitter
Ok, it's quick.
I graduated.
I'm looking for a job.
Christmas was fantastic.
I have a major crush.
And I'm off to a KU game. Hasta le!
