Whew…
Tuesday, March 15th, 2005Can I have any more crap due this week?
I doubt it… 
Archive for March, 2005
My Bracket.
Monday, March 14th, 2005Filled out a bracket for the tournament…
Final Four:
Illinois vs. Georgia Tech
UNC vs. Kentucky
Championship:
Georgia Tech over UNC (76 – 72) 
Seed No. 5
Monday, March 14th, 2005Georgia Tech has been selected as the #5 seed in the Albuquerque regionals.
The selection committee recognized the talent our players showed against UNC and Duke this weekend.
I was sad to see the clock running down and none of our 3-pt attempts falling through for the tie… now I felt how McCants felt when his 3 didn’t go in for the tie.
Tech was trailing Duke throughout the entire game but they came back within the last few minutes of the game to show what they were made of…
Yes, Tech’s shots just weren’t falling… but the most amazing part of the game is that Duke’s shots WERE falling in and Tech’s defense maintained its integrity to keep Duke’s offense checked. I was very proud of that fact – it’s a fact that paved Tech’s road to the National title game last year.
Paul Hewitt was right; Tech’s victory over UNC was most definitely not an upset just as Tech’s loss to Duke wasn’t a blow out as some would have expected before this past Friday.
Congratulations to Duke on the ACC Tournament championship and the #1 seed.
Congratulations to UNC on the ACC regular season championship and the #1 seed.
NCAA tourney’s going to be crazy this year March Madness… no other phrase for it!
Georgia Tech: Full Throttle
Sunday, March 13th, 2005Today, in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament 2005…
Georgia Tech (#4 seed) defeated UNC (#1 seed): 78-75.
I couldn’t watch the game but according to those watched it (even the UNC fans, mind you)… most thought that the refs’ calls were very unfair to Georgia Tech. Even Vitale, who would be normally all over UNC (or Duke) commented on the possibility of the refs favoring UNC.
You gotta hand it to both teams – it was a ferocious fight throughout the entire game but GT wanted it far more than UNC did… Tech had something to prove, UNC already proved it throughout the regular season. Tech deserved the win and I am sure they will be able to show college hoop fans that GT has what it takes to make heads turn after tomorrow’s game…
Now, I know Tech wants far more than what they worked for so far… they will work hard for it tomorrow.
GO JACKETS!
Lost.
Thursday, March 10th, 2005It’s okay, there are no spoilers to this entry… maybe just teasers.
Okay okay, due to the fact that several different people kept talking about or watched the new ABC series… Lost.
I decided to give it a go.
Definitely way different than the humor I got addicted to with Scrubs (frickin’ hilarious show) but I like it so far. Mainly because of the fact that things aren’t the way they seem in every episode – it feels like there’s something extra-phenomenal going on with this series… like the writer’s are building up to something extraordinary.
I love how the history of each character is presented in every episode (so far), the flashbacks are very well done. It looks like the writers and producers of this show took a lot of time into intertwining the subplots. The episodes are very well polished… but the truth is that almost every episode is very blunted at the end as if they worked hard polishing up the history of their stories that they often leave the latest happenings rugged. Not saying that it’s bad… but metaphorically speaking: it’s a roller coaster ride, you just hope that it’s not too long to make you sick of it or it doesn’t have 15 consecutive loops to make you sick of it. There’s been a lot of looping so far and you just hope that the writers who are putting in all these loops aren’t going to make us fall into an infinite loop where the viewers will not be mesmerized by this one loop. All these loops must be linked together and at some point it should finish up in the end.
If I wrote down all the questions that ran through my head as I was watching these episodes and answer them as they are all revealed, this show will be much more polished if in the finale of this show, all the questions are answered. This will require that the writers know where they are going with this series; meanwhile… the turns and twists are good but it should still get back to the main road.
If you watched the first episode and didn’t watch the second… wow, I’ll be impressed.
There are different levels of this series… a mix of Cast Away, Jurassic Park, The Langoliers, and even a little bit of everything that modern TV-series have… like our time’s fascination with medicine and forensics (ER, CSI, etc…) to love triangles like in Soaps.
It also reminded me of The Lord of the Flies although… that was back in middle school or whatever. The parts about the boar hunting, separating into two different groups, and similar characters like Ralph and Piggy… Come to think of it, it seems a bit too familiar.
My favorite character so far is Locke. A strange yet so mysterious of an introduction but he’s the oldest of the group and probably therefore… wise in so many different ways.
In the end, everything about this series will involve assumptions… my assumption relates to each character’s development. It’s strange how almost every character (of the episodes I’ve been able to see so far) has had an unsual past. I hoping that this realization will prove to be one of the keys that answers the secrets of Lost. (Yes, I am one of those guys that tries to guess the culprit or the ‘bad guy’ in the first… how many ever minutes it takes to introduce all the characters. I’d say 60% of the time my guesses turn out correct, but I watch a lot of movies so that isn’t a lot.)
I’d suggest you guys give Lost Forums a try for Lost discussions!
RLS.
Sunday, March 6th, 2005That’s right ladies and gentlemen… I have found it!
For the longest time… as far back as I can remember; I had these unexplainable, indescribable sensation in my legs that wasn’t painful at all but extremely uncomfortable. It always made me want to move my legs, massage it, and/or put it against a cold surface to relieve the sensation.
It was always worse when I was trying to get some sleep; it caused a lot of sleepless nights. People have told me that they sleep much better when their feet are covered and warm; for me, I always slept better when I kept my feet as cold as possible because it numbed the sensation. Even if it’s freezing, you can see my covered in a blanket but my feet are sticking out. This is one of my the reasons why I simply can not stay still when I am trying to fall asleep.
Or even in classes, during long periods… I would clench the muscles in my legs just to temporarily relieve the annoying sensation but it always made it worse. If it got to the point where I couldn’t stand it anymore, I’d just randomly stand up in the middle of class and take a walk for a minute.
Relief only comes from something cold or trying to take my mind off of it.
For the longest time, I thought it was just me… but it seems like there’s a name for it!
RLS – Restless Leg Syndrome.
http://www.wemove.org/rls/rls.html
No joke, I randomly found this (I thought I was searching for something about sleep schedules and sleep aids)… I gotta say, I was never able to explain these sensations to anyone because… they are just indescribable but the symptoms from the site above explains it in the clearest detail possible aside from actually having experienced it.
Anyway… now I know what it’s called and how to describe it to other people and that it has a name: Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome a.k.a. Restless leg syndrome!
WOW!
