Saturday Rant

Once again I’m sitting at Stauf’s and getting into blog mode. First off… wow what an NCAA tournament. Last night two of the top teams were upset as Bucknell beat Kansas and Vermont took out Syracuse (It’s march madness baby!). After the opening round Joe is leading the gtown NCAA picks with 26 points. I’m sure things will get more interesting over the next couple of days considering all of these upsets.

Anyway, the picture above is a work flow problems solving sheet, which you can use to cover your ass at work. There’'s some good info there.

Here are a few links to stuff I’'ve been surfing to recently.

The Onion History: This is Onion’s front page for March 14th 1945. The Regan headline is good along with the First Caucasian to join Negro Baseball Leauge.

The Mars Volta: You might want to turn your speakers down a little for this one. The Mars Volta are a band made up of former At The Drive In members. They’'ve got a jazz/latin/psychedelic rock thing going on. Traci is a big fan! We saw them live last October and they rocked.

Alex Grey: This guy was born in Columbus Ohio and went to CCAD in the mid 70’s. He’s an artist who does incredible stuff, combining theology and mysticism to explore what it means to be human. (Having an open mind helps when viewing this site). Tool has used a lot of his stuff in their album art, on stage during concerts, and in their music video's. Check out the chapel and the sacred mirrors Sacred Mirrors (the flash version is cool).


Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - This is being released two months from today May 19th. From what I hear this one should be filled with crazy light saber scenes. (for the record ms word knows that light saber is two words!)


The Zutons: I think they'’re from Liverpool. The point is they’ve got a cool laid back eclectic rock sound that I highly recommend.

Seamless.USGS.gov: Your one stop shop for US spatial / geo-data… they’re starting to release some high-res ortho/satellite images. Our tax dollars support this so check it out.