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That is awesome, Dan. Men's basketball?

A lot of great games today. I guess a good second round is the reward for such a shitty first round.

90 years is a good run. RIP to one of the great guitar gods of all time.

And down goes Nova! I've still got all my elite 8 alive, but that can change quickly. The Northwestern love was nice while it lasted. They have zero chance against this Gonzaga team.

Would anyone like my extra code for GR:W? Make me a reasonable offer and it is yours.

The time for excuses is over, Chris! I assume yours arrived today as well?

Holy shit man! What a pass! Play of the year candidate for sure! http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18928885

I have a lot of friends who are Northwestern alums and it was awesome to see them win their first ever tournament game! Gonzaga is going to drink their milkshake though.

Usually that is how you win the pool

Rather than revive the 2014 thread I figured I'd get a new one going. Don't tell the boss, but not a lot of work is going to get done Thursday and Friday. My bracket... here goes nothing!

Brent and Grahame clearing the road ahead in a technical. Infiltration gone wrong: The squad on route to Dusty's House enemy base in helo: "Hot" extraction after completed mission:

RULES OF GHOST RECON: WILDLANDS Do not fight on the road. Do not accidentally kill your teammates when they are standing near explosive devices.

Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. Yeah wow, that was one of the stupidest things I've ever done.

I don't see myself ever buying a Switch, but sure as heck would love to borrow one someday to play that game. It has received just about the highest meta-critic score I've seen for anything, ever. http://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild

Happy birthday!

Brent requested that you take an extra long time shipping him your old 980ti. He said anytime in the next 6 months will do.

One for me, one for Grahame.

Wait, what? U2 used to occasionally open for themselves during the Joshua Tree tour under the guise of a fake country band called The Dalton Brothers. I know a lot of people think U2 are arrogant dickheads, but I think this is pretty damn sweet! Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/u2s-the-joshua-tree-10-things-you-didnt-know-w470808

I will some day tell my children about the convoy ambush at the great wall of cars. There were three vehicles in the convoy: a lead car, the target, and a trail car. The lead car and trail car had mini-guns and were loaded with mercenaries. The convoy had a helicopter gunship as escort. With lieutenant Grahame, we devised a battle plan. We would create a roadblock to slow the convoy, mine the road to take out the lead car, use grenade launchers on the helicopter and trail car, then finally secure the package. What to use as a roadblock? Civilian cars, of course! And thus was constructed the great wall of cars! With the road mined, we retreated to our over-watch position and executed the ambush. Lead car down to mines, helo down to gernades, trail car executed with gernades and assault rifle fire. Brilliant! Admiring our handiwork: Finally, note to self, fasten seat-belt any time Grahame flys a helicopter because stuff like this happens:

The game plays just fine going 100% controller. I think the rest of us are using mouse/keyboard for everything on foot and a controller for vehicles/aircraft.

If anyone feels like joining in with the usual crew for some Ghost Recon: Wildlands I made a Head-Case group we can all join: https://ghostreconnetwork.ubi.com/en-US/task-force/profile/23299/Head-Case

Africa's Great Civilizations I started watching a new documentary series on PBS about (as the title would indicate) the great civilizations of Africa. All episodes can be streamed for free. http://www.pbs.org/weta/africas-great-civilizations/home/ It is Dr. Henry Louis Gates' latest project. I watched the first two episodes and I've been enjoying it and learning a lot. I think the last world history class I had was sophomore year of high school so there is a ton here that is new and fascinating. The first episode primarily focused on the Egyptians and Kush while the second looked at the spread of christianity and islam in Africa as seen through the lens of the great empire of Axum. Man, I would love to visit some of these places. Meroe and Lalibela in particular look absolutely spectacular. Egypt of course is, as anyone who has been there can tell you, stunning as well.

The buzz out of GDC is that it is the best VR game yet.

Great music to listen to at work.