life is good for the state of north carolina these days. first the goddamn unc tarheels won the ncaa basketball tournament, and then last night miss north carolina won the miss usa pageant. she even mentioned something about unc winning the tournament, to which miss illinois (another finalist, whose homestate university lost to unc in the championship game) had NO COMEBACK.

whatever.

ah man, azubuike signed with an agent, giving up his final year of college basketball eligibility at kentucky.

this would be all well and great but I just don’t see him going in the first round. I mean, shit, I’d love it if he got drafted! but there are just so many kids out there on the nba teams’ radar. high school phenoms, collegiate superstars, european prospests…

the kicker is that the agent he signed with was an agent for two former kentucky players. neither of them were drafted.

ugh.

not even a full week into april and HOLY SHIT

it’s 77 degrees!

this is ridiculous.

so my tax refund came in the mail! I quickly took it to my bank to deposit the sweet, sweet money (which was mine to begin with).

on the back of the refund check the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT gives instructions for the bank teller to request identification. here’s how the teller lady requested that vital information from me:

lady: are you … JUAN NADDO?
me: … yes.

sweet, sweet money.
(which was mine already)

so I got the new static lullaby cd on my lunch break. I popped it my PC fully expecting iTunes to chime in and tell me it’s ready to grab the songs off the cd.

NOPE.

no media programs (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc) even recognize there’s a disc in the drive. instead there is this dinky pop-up menu telling me I can only rip it to WMA format OR some sony digital walkman nonsense. it won’t let you directly grab the songs and convert to mp3.

but you know what, if it’s important to you to have mp3s of songs on these “piracy-proof” cds there’s a way around it and here’s how. you’ll just need:

1. a blank cd
2. a cd-rw drive

step 1: grab the songs off the cd (via the dinky menu) as WMA format.
step 2: burn the WMA files onto a blank cd.
step 3: grab the songs off the cd like any other cd.

yeah, fuck you sony. I paid for this cd and I’m fucking putting it on my ipod.

that is the most hilarious line I’ve heard. it’s from a missy elliott song.

anyway.

so yeah, unc with their 4 first round draft picks starting line-up managed to win a championship last night. I would say something about how roy williams inherited this team and had very little to do with their recruiting, but then the upperclassmen on this team were the young core of the sorry ass team from two years ago. so I guess credit needs to go to roy williams.

I came in 4th in my office pool, and won the one at my apartment. I haven’t even looked at my other one.

so the new a static lullaby cd comes out today. might have to swing on by during lunch and snag a copy. I did a little research and there’s this one major electronics retailer selling it for 7.99. jeeeesus.

YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU GOT ‘TILL IT’S GONE (right, because they were the first to come up with that saying).

so after that whole balloon prank the other day I have developed SERIOUS blisters on the tips of my left pointing finger and thumb. serious.

as a direct result I’m finding the tips of one’s pointing finger and thumb get called upon for usage quite often. here’s a list of what I’ve come up with based on my experiences from the last two days:

1. tying shoelaces
2. buttoning a shirt
3. typing
4. putting ipod earbud in my left ear
5. flicking things
6. pinching things
7. picking up a coin off the floor

here’s a list of what I think would hurt, but haven’t experienced:

1. push-ups on finger tips
2. catching flying, spinning daggers with aforementioned fingers
3. stabbing someone in the temple with my left thumb
4. playing bass without a pick (thick strings, you know)
5. picking up a naughty kitty by the extra skin on the back of the neck
6. tearing numerous raffle tickets
7. scratching records
8. video games

yeah.

if I can have one complaint about the univ of illinois basketball team, is that their home unis (solid orange) look like away unis.

yeah, that’s about it.

we just blew up 500 balloons. I think I’m going to faint.

so ming and I are gonna do this “prank” where we fill our boss’s office with balloons. we’re not sure how many it’s gonna take, so we’re gonna first get 100 and see how many more we need.

we might as well get some kind of workout, we missed our kung fu class tonight.

I have a feeling it’s gonna be us who will be fools.