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So I joined a golf league this year, in hopes of improving my pathetic golf game. We play 9 holes every Tuesday evening at Otter Creek Golf Course, which is a pretty nice course. In the past I’ve usually been in the mid-50’s for 9 after my sliced drives and 3-putts. Officially, I’ve got a handicap of 15 for the league. So far this year I’ve played Otter 3 times and have shot a 51, 56, and 50 - shooting the 56 last Tuesday, the first night of league.

I’ve found a pretty sweet application that I run on my Smartphone (Motorola MPx220). Its called IntelliGolf and assists in round scoring, amongst other things. You can use it to track each individual stroke to find out where you need to work on (for me it would just say everything and give me the finger so I haven’t done this yet). Also, it supports GPS so you can figure out your exact yardage to the pin, you can track your putts, bunker shots, sand saves, etc. You can even use it to have some friendly side-betting - another feature I dare not try until I can find a game that favors my sloppy style. This is a pretty fun app - here’s my scorecard from Sunday.

I just sat thinking about this after coming back from lunch and seeing the rain pick up to make for a very soggy round tonight or possibly no round at all. Sigh.

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I’m pretty sure that I used to enjoy this day reading about various pranks that fooled a bunch of people, but it has really gotten out of hand now. Just take a look at Slashdot. I think there might be one real article in there somewhere today, but the rest is just people trying too hard to out-do each other for their April Fool’s Day gag.

There is a point when this stuff is just no longer amusing. Please stop… you’re just missing the point.

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