I heard from the plugin developer yesterday, and when he finally got a free minute to try things out, I’d not set up something properly to let him test. Argh. Hopefully it won’t take another week to get better news.
Olympics
- Not their demographic. At all. – Swilling Bud Light 24×7 is not my idea of a good time. So I really wish I didn’t have to keep watching their commercial during the Games.
- Why are track and field records longer-lived than swimming ones? – There are not a lot of T&F records broken each Olympics, while swimming records seem to be overturned on a regular basis. Here are some thoughts as to why.
- Empty seats at the Olympics – Looks bad. Is bad, in fact.
- NBC protects us from those crazy foreigners – The worst excuse yet from NBC for it’s awful Opening Ceremony coverage.
- En garde! – Fencing is cool. I want to watch more.
Election Politics
- Louis Black in 2012 – I’d vote for him. If nothing else, the State of the Union would be a lot more entertaining.
- Are we still allowed to say “Israel First” politicians? – For a party that keeps nattering about protecting US sovereignty, they sure seem willing to subordinate our national interests to those of Israel.
- Deaths is deaths – Comparing Obama to the Aurora Theater shooter is totally bogus — except in the very narrow but important way it isn’t.
- Stay classy, America – The vitriol unleashed at the First Lady is utterly appalling. And disturbing, and disgusting. And, yes, I’d feel that way about whoever was in that position.
Other
- Getting it on like King Kong – I’d like to visit the Empire State Building some day.
- The Scale of the Universe – Fascinating, and very, very nicely done.
- Calling this poor judgment is a grotesque understatement – Yes, let’s stage a kidnapping for the kids … for Jesus!
- Let them eat cake — but not from us – How well thought-out is prejudice? I don’t know, but I doubt very.
- The end of pianos – There’s a glut of pianos to dispose of these days. Very sad.
- Too many secrets – First they came for Wikileaks, but I didn’t care because I wasn’t an independent whistle-blowing group. Then they came for the New York Times, and …
- And I have some swampland in Florida to sell you, too – I’ve been to the Salton Sea. Anyone who asks you to invest in a big development there is selling you a bill of goods.
- Grammar is meaningful – And, yes, it comes into play in job applications.
- Hmmm. Might take up cross-stitching again – Very cool super-hero alphabet.
- My inspiring mother-in-law – Some advice for writing.
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There will always be some seats empty because some blocks are reserved for the competitors – some for those in that sport, because they want to watch the oppositon play etc, and some for any athlete- Usain Bolt might decide to watch the 1000m pursuit at the Velodrome: they don’t have too book. Plus some are for the dignitaries- bithard to tell senior IOC officials they have to boo in advance!
Additionally some of those competitions are in their early rounds – few people want to turn up to watch two countries you’ve never heard of and who are bottom seeds. Some sessions change competitors- The hockey you get 2 games on 1 ticket, and I noticed that some supporters from game 1 didn’t come back for game 2,
Interesting observations on that, thanks. The media reports I’ve read have called out the problem, but they may not have that perspective.
I know this because I have been lectured at length on various ‘issues’ by my wife who is one of the ‘Games Makers’ – the volunteers you see dressed in Purple/pink polo shirts and beige trousers. She’s a team leader in the Hockey Stadium.
Her training and uniform etc has been provided by ‘official partners’, but while she gets travel in London for her shifts, and a lunch allowance for those days, her travel to the various training days have been paid for by her (plus me getting up at 6 on a Saturday morning a few times to get her to the correct station so she arrives at the best Terminus!)
She is staying with her dad in east London for the duration as her early shifts start at 5am, and lates finish at midnight.
Wow. Very cool, and, I’m sure, amid all the very hard work, some great memories being gathered there.