First Place, Baby!

I'm still high coming off the Opening Day awesome win over the hated
Yankees. I'm still happy for the new Kiko Garcia, No. 3, Cesar Izturis,
hitting that home run to put the game away. So when I look at the
standings going into the third game of the season and I see an
undefeated, first place team, I'm happy. YAY! I missed most all of last night's game, Koji "Kojira" Uehara debut in
the Orange and Black. I should've gone as the place was only half
packed. Today's game is at 1:35. I love day games. I should sneak out of work.
That would be so fun.Hopefully, we can break out the brooms for a sweep.Go O's!

Link of the Day [2.24.09]

I had probably linked his predictions prior to our Oscar Pool, but Nate Silver does an analysis of where he went wrong. There’s a comment there that congratulates him on missing only two. I think we all did just as good and we were picking names out of a hat. When I think back, it would’ve been just as well to have gone with the front runners. You would’ve nailed all them. And no, Sean Penn, wasn’t a big surprise — see Eddie Murphy in best supporting actor.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/some-post-oscars-thoughts-on.html

Oscar Pool Results 2009

So it’s late night after the show. I forgot about Jimmy Kimmel, but spent the later part of the midnight drinking a cherry coke and tabulating results. I bet you’re all on edge. But first, let me thank the academy, my mom and dad, the producers, the craftspeople, rod and ness and most of all the seed for live blogging the telecast. He did a bang up job with the blow by blow. Read it and experience our night at the oscars.

Oh yeah I forgot. Thanks for all my participants: the seed, CapSwell, riss, dace, Marge, Annie, and Wyman. You make it fun.

So the winners are: Drumroll pleases!

Winner of the Special Jury Prize of picking the most 1 pointers: Annie!!! She does by being the only one to pick the live action short and the foreign film and by being one of two with the correct choice in costume. She takes it with 10 points! Most of the rest of us had 6! Good job.

She gets to choose any of the animated feature films on DVD!

Runner up is Wyman! 24 points! He ruled the two pointers in the early evening, but was only average in the others. Could’ve gone his way, but for Sean Penn.

He gets his choice of the best picture nominees.

The winner and still reigning champion, riss! 26 points! Sean Penn FTW! Congratulations. How the heck do you get so good?

She gets her choice of any nominated film. I hope I can find it for her!

The rest of us suck. It’s later than I want it to be, so we’ll find out more rankings tomorrow. As a whole we did pretty well. Only categories we missed completely were best supporting actress and animated short. Woohoo good job.

**** UPDATE ****
Here’s a link to the tallies. They show all received entries in the sub totals, but only the accepted entries in the totals. Enjoy!!!!! http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTj2DeezQPze5P4223RV8bw

Oscar Pool Totals

Not doing them until tomorrow, but the Wyman is running away with this currently. Why!?!!?!?Drop by the seed for some live blogging. Sent from my iPhone

Quote of the Day [1.29.09]

"Partisanship is about advocating for your own beliefs and discrediting
the beliefs that you reject and believe are harmful… [P]olitics is and
should be about defeating ideas — and people — that are discredited
and destructive."Glenn Greenwald @ Salon.com/opinion/greenwald

Quote of the Day [1.19.09]

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in
an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of
destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never
again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside
agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be
considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.