team tiny dancers

My summer league team, Tiny Dancers, won its first game on Tuesday against the ultimatos. We finished the game with a 6 to 1 run to win 15-13. This is my first time “captaining” a summer league team and it is loads of fun.

I will keep you posted on our progress through the season.

word death

Some words are just really cool. I really like the word booyah!. I don’t think it is used often enough amongst my co-workers. I plan on changing this so that booyah knowledge does not die forever.

The best part of the word booyah is that you can say it while you are writing code or playing ultimate frisbee.

For example:

* If you just finished debugging some really sick code you could shout “Booyah”! And your cube neighbors would know that you just kicked some ass.

* Imagine that you just made a really good catch… you could turn to your defender and shout “Booyah, I just caught the frisbee!”. Then everyone on the field would know that you mean business.

odd ducks deep linking my content

I have done a little access log surfing and discovered that someone is deep linking (not sure if this is the correct term) to a graphic I made (of which I am quite proud) for the 2001 showme state games ultimate frisbee tourney.

I did a google translation and it appears to be about feeling oppressed (my guess is a discussion amongst french teens)… but if anyone could explain how the photo relates to the text I would love to hear the explanation.

content management systems etc.

For the last week I have been evaluating bids for a content management systems that will be deployed across campus. The plan is for the central IT shop to act as a content management ASP (similar to atomz).

My first impression is that most of these systems are designed for deployment to a single location. Or possibly that is just the most common deployment scenario.

Gosh that was really boring… in other news… I twisted my ankle this weekend at Summer Soaker 3. It was my first ultimate frisbee tournament in about two years and I played well and had fun. Because of the sprain I have been mooching rides off of everyone since I can’t ride my bike. Oooohhh and guess what else… last night I played in the sandbox with my son. I buried his toes in slightly wet sand and then he made them peek out. We also made smoothies (yum) and ate popcorn.

I am also reading Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort (the origin of zipf’s law) by G. Zipf. I have seen it cited in many places and figured it was time to read this classic. I really love when the fields of sociology, economics, biology and computer science come together (sorry requires IE). If you want to read it for yourself I suggest your local library because $250 is the best price I found on the web.

summer league 2003

Registration for “summer league 2003″:http://ultimate.mu.org/events/summer/ is open. “Fresa”:http://www.missouri.edu/~jacobsf/ is running it again this year. She is going to attempt to have a draft (just like in pro-sports).

Anyone reading this who has ever wanted to play ultimate should signup and play. Last year was loads of fun with lots of players who had never played before.

UPA 2003 ozark college sectionals

The UPA 2003 ozark college sectionals are being hosted in Columbia, MO this year.

If you have ever been interested in watching ultimate frisbee you should come out to the finals on sunday (around 1:00 – see schedule for details).