You are browsing the archives of 2008 March.

Congratulations to the Northern Kentucky University Lady Norse, who
won the NCAA Division II women’s national championship game on Saturday night!!! They rallied from two big deficits
to beat South Dakota 63-58. Way to go NKU!!! Woohoo!

Unfortunately, both Xavier and Louisville went down in defeat in the Division I NCAA men’s [...]

Via
GraphJam.com

In March 2004, a tiny grey and white kitty was born in Ohio. Thankfully, I rescued him from the Buckeye state in October of that year and brought him to a new home in good ol’ KY. Boy, the time has flown by - hard to believe he’s 4 already. And [...]

It’s better to wear out than rust out - Frances Willard
Nice quote! This speaks to how I hope to spend my summer. I won’t be taking classes this summer for several reasons, the primary being I need to the time to build up my school fund for next year. (Xavier’s a bit expensive [...]

Ah, the news I’ve been waiting for was announced yesterday:

Rock Band moshes over to Wii on June 22nd.
I’ve previously written about
how much I’ve liked playing Rock Band, but I’ve only been able to play occasionally at Patrick’s house. A month or so ago, I bought Guitar Hero 3, but I haven’t enjoyed [...]

Here they are, my final brackets for the 2008 NCAA Tourney…for now at least.
I can’t really bring myself to pick any major upsets. I’m still wavoring on the final four, too, so chances are this could change.
Overall, I thought the brackets were pretty good this year. No real big surprises [...]

Catchy song and video from
The Afters:

MySpace Girl
This MySpace fad needs to die, though. It’s getting - no, it’s been - old, for a while now, sinceit’s been popping up in movies, songs, etc…

It’s two and a half months into the year already. Time’s sure flying by.
As I wait for the UK game to get started (It’s 11:15pm right now, and with the severe weather in Atlanta, the game has been delayed for quite some time, both because of the continuing weather and damage to the [...]

CNN.com has an article on
Tooth Fairy Economics.

Shannan and Marty Boyer of Park Hills, Kentucky, faced a sudden financial quandary one evening. Their 5-year-old, Sean, had just lost his first tooth, and the Boyers realized they didn’t know the Tooth Fairy’s going rate.
“My husband was like, ‘Maybe we should give him a twenty?’ [...]

One of my co-workers sent this to me the other day:

One Week’s Worth of Food Around Our Planet
and

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
Some quick observations (hopefully not sounding too stereotypical):

Americans eat more junk and fast food (no surprise)
Americans don’t eat as many fruits and veggies
Mexicans seem to really like Coke
Pig’s knuckles with carrots???
People in [...]