Wahooo!

Wow. I don't remember having a perfect round for a while. I'll take it. I (luckily) picked all the winners from the Sweet 16 round. I've moved into first place for all of my groups. I'm now in the 98% percentile (still only ranked 30,424th) on Yahoo Tourney Pick'em.



Well my ranking probably won't, last but now it's forever recorded in the blogosphere.

A friend of mine has a pretty nice little site I wanted to mention. He's done a nice job on it. It's all about fruit and gift baskets. If you are looking into sending a fruit basket for Christmas you should have a look at his site.

Fruitbasket reviews tells you who all the main fruitbasket companies are plus he offers you a discount link to them. I've seen some pictures and the fruit looks tasty!

This past year I've been doing some research on what happened on 9/11. A friend of mine kind of sparked my interest. I just watched a video on YouTube that was pretty interesting.



If that doesn't work you can see it here.

Do you have any friends that you love to bug? To see if you can get under their skin, just for fun? Well if you don't you should get one. Check out this IM conversation I had with one of my friends (I changed his name to "Friend"):

Ryan: you find a new place to work. I heard there were salary cuts at Company X. Is that true?
Friend: Dunno about that, but they are continuing to lay people off.
Friend: And no, I didn't find another place. To tell you the truth, my online portfolio is outta date, and I think it's hurting me.
Ryan: why is it out of date? oh you mean your website?
Friend: Right. The content and the look and feel are very out-of-date.
Ryan: Um...yeah it's a bit out of date.
Ryan: the last experience on there is a job from 2003?
Friend: Right. One small example of everything that needs to be updated.
Ryan: wow you had a 3.8 gpa?
Friend: I now have the Adobe Creative Suite at home, though, so that'll make it easier.
Friend: I spose I did.
Ryan: class of 2000? You're old Friend. Your almost coming on your 10 year COLLEGE graduation.
Friend: Yep, there's dirt and then there me.
Ryan: and I'd take dirt
Ryan: you might be older than rocks too.
Ryan: your biography could use some work.
Friend: Um...yeah.
Ryan: "under construction" come on Friend
Ryan: that is so 1998
Friend: Sue me, I made that web site five years ago.
Ryan: and you're still working on that page?
Friend: No. I shifted my priorities. Maybe you should just surf away from my website now.
Ryan: well there's nothing else for me to see...so I might as well!
Ryan: the splash open has got to go too btw.
Ryan: seriously
Friend: LIKE I SAID I MADE IT FIVE YEARS AGO.
Ryan: You know what Friend. It's just my opinion, but I think your online portfolio is outta date and might be hindering you job hunting.
Friend: GEE THANKS I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!!!!

I've been helping some friends of mine with a what I think is a pretty cool site. I know some of you are pretty good writers. This site is a place aspiring or current writers can go to help them improve their writing. The online writing group site is Review Fuse. The way it works is you sign up to get a login and then you can submit your work. Since it's just in the beginning phase they are accepting short stories or first chapters of books. Then after you submit it you are guaranteed to get reviews on your work from your peers. People so far have quite liked it. Of course we are looking for me people to join the community so if you are into writing you should check it out.

This image was forwarded to me in an email earlier today.

If you haven't seen this yet it's pretty funny.

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