It's our last installment of Samsung's Enhance Your Experience series.  Samsung, it's in the game.  Samsung, I'm lovin' it.  Samsung, just do it.  Samsung, the most interesting man in the world.

My favorite part of technology that doesn't involve easy access to naughty videos is the ability to follow the intricacies of Georgetown basketball from my cozy laptop in New York.  On a daily basis, I get to argue with Syracuse delinquents about the merits of our rivalry.  I get to throw insults around like "you suck" and "Georgetown is better" and other awesome stuff.

After The Jump, I shamelessly promote our gamethreads.

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We're back for our second post in Samsung's "Enhance Your Experience", sponsored by Samsung.  Samsung, Samsung, Samsung.  If you are watching TV, you are watching Samsung.  I love Samsung.

Writing for this blog is, for the most part, a gift.  I have become impossibly famous, met numerous women, and live a life I couldn't conceive of just one year ago.  Everywhere I turn I hear "Holy Crap! It's JGD!"  On top of that, I get to enjoy talking with you fine folks on a daily basis with an easy-to-use, fan-friendly technology.

The one curse of writing for this blog is that internet technology is so sophisticated that everything is archived and easily accessible.  I am a very, very irrational human being.  My hyperbole knows no bounds, both negatively and positively.  For example, in the span of one week last year, we beat Duke, lost to South Florida, and then beat Villanova.  In the victories I claimed that we were "one of the top 5 teams in the country."  In the defeat to South Florida, which happened IN BETWEEN THESE VICTORIES, I said "We have no chance of winning the Big East regular season, we have no chance at a #1 seed, we have no chance of winning 6 straight games in the NCAA tournament, and at this point this team is almost as Jekyll and Hyde as last year's team."  Pretty schizophrenic stuff, I must say.

That said, I feel like all die-hard fans go through magnificent highs and absurd lows through the course of the season.  We are schizophrenic because we care.  The problem is I have the ability to re-read my mood swings because of this blog.

I have taken no dumber stance than the one I took after we lost to Ohio.  In the post game recap I wrote:

Now for the elephant in the room.  John Thompson III needs to be reevaluated.  Doing well in the Big East Tournament is one thing, but to lay an egg this badly on national TV in the first round of the NCAA Tournament is another.  Our last three seasons have finished 2nd round exit, NIT, 1st round exit.  It pains me to say, because he has done so much for the program in terms of bringing it back to prominence, bringing in good talent, etc, but at the end of the day, he is judged on his tournament results.

After The Jump, I apologize to JT3.

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As part of the "Enhance Your Experience" series of posts sponsored by Samsung, we are writing about how technology impacts our fandom.  For me, no technology has made me feel creepier or more psychotic than Twitter.

Twitter has revolutionized the way I follow Georgetown basketball.  No longer is my fan experience confined to watching the games, reading various articles and blogs and talking with friends.  With Twitter I am able to get unfiltered thoughts of the players in all their abbreviation-heavy glory.

After The Jump read about the ways Twitter has changed my fan experience.

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