the tindog coffeehouse

I normally don’t follow college basketball; there are just too many games. But I do tend to get caught up in March Madness. Not to the point of bringing a TV and rabbit ears to work like a former co-worker of mine used to do every year, but I do enjoy watching games when I can.

That said, here are my pics for the men’s tournament. Yes, most of them are safe bets while a few are probably long shots. (Predicted winner in parentheses) Discuss.

Sweet 16.
Pitt vs. Florida State (Pitt)
Duke vs. Villanova (Villanova)
Louisville vs. Wake Forest (Louisville)
Kansas vs. Michigan State (Kansas)
LSU vs. Gonzaga (LSU)
OU vs. Syracuse (OU)
UConn vs. Purdue (UConn)
Missouri vs. Memphis (Memphis)

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Since joining Twitter last November, I’ve gradually blogged less and less, not because I wasn’t interested in blogging, but because there are times it’s just quicker and easier to fire off a quick tweet and be done with it. But then a lot of times I feel guilty, as if I have some sort of obligation to meet a blogging quota. (I don’t, do I?)

Then, of course, there’s the Facebook versus Twitter dilemma. When I want to announce something amazingly profound to the citizens of the Interwebs, like how I could really go for a ham sandwich right about now, do I post that nugget of eternal wisdom on Facebook or tweet it?

Of course some people do both. There’s the Twitter Facebook app that ports your tweets automatically to Facebook (in the form of your Facebook status). And the next version of TweetDeck will allow users to post their updates to Twitter, Facebook, or both. I don’t really like this approach, personally, simply because not everything I say on Twitter is necessarily appropriate for Facebook, and vice versa. Plus, at times it borders on spamming your friends, and Facebook users are already being spammed enough as it is.

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Chuck Norris doesn’t remember the Alamo.  The Alamo remembers him.

Watch out, President Obama. Chuck Norris is threatening to single-handedly rip Texas from the Union and declare himself President of the Lone Star State, er, Republic. And he’ll do it, too, if Washington doesn’t shape up, pronto.

Thomas Jefferson counseled us, “We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” Yet the feds have skyrocketed our national debt by trillions of dollars, and they plan much more fiscal expansion, with few expectations of resistance. George Washington admonished, “To contract new debts is not the way to pay for old ones.” But we keep borrowing and bailing out, and we watch the stock market plunge further every time we do. …

How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen, or will history need to record a second American Revolution?

While I’m not (yet) in favor of seceding, I would love to see Chuck Norris run for governor some day, if only to debate (i.e. put the smack down on) Kinky Friedman. Plus, wouldn’t it be fun watching Arnold Schwarzenegger wet his pants the first time he met a real “Governator”?

How weird is it that I go to Dallas every day but have seen almost none of it?

Like many residents in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, I live in the suburbs but work in Dallas. I drive to work five days a week to my office in North Dallas, then drive home when I’m done. And that’s pretty much the extent of my association with Big D.

I was reminded of just how foreign Dallas is to me when Fort Worth urban blogger Kevin Buchanan took a self-guided tour through the city, comparing Dallas’s urban design to that of Cowtown’s. (And yes, I know how much he hates that term; wouldn’t want to promote Fort Worth’s agricultural roots too much, would we?)

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