With
Selection Sunday looming and because of the additional incentive of
Warren Buffett's Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge, I have decided to
resume blogging. For now, I plan to focus on the development and
implementation of the perfect NCAA Division I Men's Basketball
Tournament bracket; whether this leads to further blogging on the
panoply of topics that occupy my feverishly undisciplined brain or
shamefully evaporates before the second weekend probably answers
itself. Still, I can dream of being a productive polymath, and
monkeys can dream of flying out of my butt. Wait. That didn't come
out right.
This
year, I have decided to give in completely to my incipient Ignatius J. Reilly-ness (hence the blog name) and center my bracket
preparation on “theology and geometry”. Specifically, inspired
by the Greek concept of the four humors, I postulate that there are
four fundamental modes of bracket prognostication that connect to
four bodily organs:
- Analysis – picking the “best” teams – Brain
- Positive Emotion – picking the teams you like – Heart
- Negative Emotion – picking the teams you hate – Spleen
- Luck – picking teams out of your ass – Colon
While
in the past I have availed myself of all of these modes in various
non-systematic amounts, what I always forgot what Hippocrates and
Galen knew; the key was balance. In other words, my brackets were
dyscrastic. No more. This year, I will create four separate
“humoral” brackets, which I will submit to various contests, but
for the Billion Dollar Challenge, I will attempt, through some
mystical process as yet determined, to bring these four brackets into
their proper balance. To me at least, the humorous possibilities
seem manifold, especially at my expense. So I plan on blogging my
way through.
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