The word of the day is basketball. The 8th seeded Memphis Tigers taken on 9th seed Saint Louis today at 5:50 PM. The game will be televised on TBS.
Speaking of the Tigers and March Madness: One of my favorite political blogs is FiveThirtyEight, written by Nate Silver. It has detailed statistical analysis predicting the outcome of upcoming elections, and it was nearly dead on with the 2008 presidential election. Nate Silver is a basketball fan too, and here are his percentage projections that each team in the tourney will make it to each round. As of the time of this post, he has the Tigers at about a 9% chance to reach the Final Four. No other 8 seed is anywhere near 9%.
The Tigers aren’t the only big news in Memphis basketball today. The Grizzlies have a home game tonight at the FedExForum, and it looks like we’re going to get Zach Randolph back. Remember when he got injured, and people said we’d be lucky to hang around .500 until his return? We did a little better than that – 24-17 and fourth place in the Western Conference. Welcome back Z-bo!
There’s a job opening for a Collections Manager/Registrar at the Metal Museum. It requires a Master’s degree, preferably art-related, and 5 years’ museum experience. Details of the job can be found here.
I found this online this morning, and figured it might be useful to some of you: Online PDF to HTML converter.
The Downtown Neighborhood Association is having a happy hour tonight at the Green Beetle at 6. You don’t have to be a member to join them for a pint or two. Tip: Come hungry and try the food.
Time for some quick Chinese food and then a few more hours at work. I’ll be out somewhere to watch the Tiger game.