The coin flips of randomness in the NCAA tournament bracket brought me 4th place in the group of people playing at work and dropped me in the 69th percentile overall.

Obama beat the coins by 180 points, and I'm wondering if Nixon ever played fantasy football.

Hmm.

I'm dead last in the bracket standings for the March Madness thing at work. If UNC wins twice, I come in third. Not too bad for flipping coins ...

Every year, my boss sends out a link to the ESPN march madness bracket thing. Last year was the first year I actually made a bracket. Understand, now, that I know jack about basketball - so last year I just picked based on what teams I thought were cool, and did OK at the very start but ended up at the bottom of the group by the end of it all ( Read more... )

About to fall asleep, watching court TV ...

There's a show called "Principal's Office".

I just watched a coach at a high school somewhere give about ten or so kids detention for standing and talking at the back of a truck in the parking lot. At a high school with a grand total of 509 students. The rule they broke was that they're supposed to go ( Read more... )

I used to listen to Suicidal Tendencies just cranked to the max - and I liked pretty much every song. There's a song here and there now that I can still get into - but I'm all up on pandora radio right now, and "I Feel Your Pain And I Survive" came on - and I'm not into it. I used to really, really like that song ( Read more... )

There really ought to be a simple protocol for network card games that's standard. As far as I can tell, there isn't one ( Read more... )

My deal-card function is basically a Knuth shuffle spread out over multiple calls to the deal-card routine. E.G. (shuffle-deck deck) just resets the card count, the actual "shuffling" is done by deal-card ( Read more... )

This may just be because I've only ever had cream corn from a can, or the fact that I haven't had cream corn in forever, but ...

The cream corn at Rudy's is some magical awesome substance that I can't get enough of.

I converted http://www.suffecool.net/poker/evaluator.html to Common Lisp code. Instead of looping/recursing over all 21 seven-card hand combinations, I wrote a macro to expand to what is basically an unrolled loop that checks them all and returns the best value. I have ( Read more... )

We'll never get away from William. (I reissued a command from my history buffer just now - !1066)