The View From Wisconsin

The brackets are out.

No, not those brackets; the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey brackets.

Wisconsin is the #1 seed, set to face Bemidji State in the first round on the road to Milwaukee. The only thing keeping the UW faithful from a trip down I-94 is either Cornell or Colorado College, in the other part of their bracket.

Meanwhile, in other things:

• There was good news and bad news last night from the GEC in Nashville. The bad news was Tomas Vokoun's shutout streak ended at 127:27. The good news was that his teammates made it up to him by scoring nine goals against Calgary - owners of the "best" defense in the NHL. All that would have been needed was an empty-netter by Paul Kariya for the double-taco goal, and all would have been right with the world.
  
• Like an addict, I have once again been reeled in by my one true love: Baseball cards. I have packs of Topps, Topps Heritage and Upper Deck First Pitch. And, I'm not entirely sure I like the "vintage cards" in every pack; I'm already up to my kiester in '79 Willie Montanez cards.
  
• I'm turning into a regular "road geek". I actually started a Wikipedia entry for STH-16 in Wisconsin. I'm a bit partial to it, since it runs only a few blocks away from my home.
  
• New 'puter update: I've got the GT4010 working pretty much the way I want, without a lot of the extra deadweight at the moment. My only issue right now is that my external hard drive is smaller than the HD on the computer - which may make backups problematic.