Super Bowl et alia

Well, it’s over. The quest for perfection has ended at 18-1. Quite simply, the Giants outplayed the Patriots tonight, on offense and defense, and the Pats just couldn’t make the clutch plays they needed to hold them off. Oh well. It was still an incredible season, with a plethora of records broken, and the only 16-0 regular season ever. Besides, it’s less than two weeks until spring training starts.

A few miscellaneous items that I’ve been meaning to get up:

It’s old news by now that Scrabulous might be going away, but it’s still an alarming thought that lives at the back of my mind. At this point, I have no idea how I’ll get through the workday without it. I picture myself huddled under my desk in the fetal position, shaking as the withdrawal runs its course. What will really be interesting to me is whether Facebook will lose some momentum if Scrabulous goes away. I know a number of people (including myself) for whom it was a primary motivator for joining in the first place.

I’ve been working on a personal project lately, and it’s been a fun change of pace to turn the apparatus on a problem and really get into working on it. When work requires that depth of involvement, it’s usually because I’m staring down the barrel of a deadline, which tempers the exhilaration somewhat. Working on something that’s just for my own personal use takes that stress away and leaves only the pursuit of the High.

Sheryl remarks on a phenomenon that I’ve been experiencing as well: people I haven’t talked to in years suddenly cropping up again. Has this been happening to anyone else? It’s a little eerie.