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Whew, I have several posts I'd like to write, but my priorities are in order, so the Spurs come first. I need to hit the sack so I can get to work early so I can get off early so I can get to San Antonio in time to be positioned near the River Walk to hail the Great Mariachi in the sky should the Spurs win the title tonight.

But before I go, I'd like point you all to some of my friends' projects that I think deserve attention.

First, my friend Seth's networking site, Conspyr, is now up and running at full speed. Now some of you may say, "Another networking site? Why should I bother joining this one?"

Glad you asked. This one, besides having all the features you're used to, offers something unique: a continuously updated calibration of how compatible you are with other members. It starts with this screen:



Here you rank how you feel about the interests presented to you from 1 (severe dislike — I would banish this from existence if possible — reserved for, say, the movie "Armageddon") to 5 (gives my life meaning — cream gravy). Based on your responses, the site generates your compatibility with every other member of the site. For you nerds out there, if I understand Seth's algorithm correctly, compatibility is really just a distance vector in a multi-dimensional space. Your position can change on the fly as you add interest ratings over time — a surprisingly addictive timekill.

From there it becomes pretty fun to see how you match up with your friends or significant others or the hot chick at Spider House. And, had this been around when I was single, perhaps it would've allowed me to avoid the Friendster-arranged date I went on with a formerly strung-out-turned-virulently-Republican girl. Or, actually, that was pretty fun, so maybe you could seek that sort of thing out.

Anyways, go here and sign up. It's pretty sweet, Seth's put a megaton of work into the site and I think it's better than trashy ol' MySpace.

Finally, there's nothing particularly timely about this, but I recently wandered over to my friend Jason's video artwork and found quite a bit of stuff I liked, varying from the experimental to the really morbidly funny. Check out, for instance, "My Grandfather's Toe." Make sure your volume's on.

All righty, that's it.

Go Spurs Go!