Nuke the Fridge at the 2008 Summer Failympics
Posted by admin - 30/03/08 at 10:03:26 am
I thought a good Triathlon for the Failympics would be a “Shark High Jump,” “Curve The Bullet Skeet Shooting” followed by the “400 m Fridge Nuke.” Maybe I should write a letter to the Failympic Committee.
Not that this comic makes ANY sense at all, I can try to offer some context:
- “Nuke the Fridge” at UrbanDictionary.com
- “Is Nuke the Fridge the new Jump The Shark” via /Film
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John Edwards Cheater! gnooze 08.08.08
Posted by admin - 26/03/08 at 02:03:27 pmBush and Putin chat about the Georgian war, John Edwards reveals his infidelity, and a new 2.5 million-year-old Mastodon! Marta Costello hosts the gnooze (the g is silent) brought to you by goobersayshey!
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Watch 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony Video Streaming Online & Images
Posted by admin - 18/03/08 at 02:03:14 amThe 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony Video
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Here is the 9 minutes video clip of the jubilant 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
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In Which I Give My Breakdown Of Olympic Stuff
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Alright, on to my final Olympic post until Vancouver 2010 (which by the way will also be the year of my 20th high school reunion).
Michael Phelps’ 8 gold medals.
Good: Congrats to him for setting his goal and hitting it. And even if he hadn’t won all Golds, that still would’ve been an incredible feat. Bad: NBC’s hype machine for shoving Michael Phelps’ road to glory down our throats. Ugly: A certain swimmer’s mother for embracing the hype and putting on her humble act before all of America. I might be a little harsh here but even if she were genuinely being humble about everything, she certainly didn’t turn the cameras away.
NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games
Good: They managed to show a lot of the events, even if it was on other related channels. Bad: It sucked if you didn’t get those channels.
Good: MSNBC did an Olympic Update broadcast every day from 2pm-4pm PST (or 5pm-8pm EST) and they managed not to spoil anything that was showing on any other of the channels. Plus, the 3 hosts (1 in the NY studio and 2 in Beijing) had good chemistry with each other. Bad: Whomever was in charge of getting the footage and graphics on the screen at the right time was horrible so it often made for odd moments in the broadcast when they’d be talking about one thing and we’d see another.
Good: They managed to tone down the sob stories about the athletes and the hard road it took for them to get to the Olympics. Instead, they had their correspondants focus on China and the Chinese culture. Bad: The only moment that bothered me was Mary Carillo’s piece on Chinese food.
Ugly: The hype machine, the fact that they didn’t show some of the lesser sports at all (like the sailing events), the fact that the lesser sports got shown at weird times on the other channels and weren’t given even a little bit of show on Primetime.
The Games (meaning the sports)
Good: Watching the best athletes in the world, coming together in the spirit of competition and playing their hearts out, was awesome. Bad: The controversy over the Chinese gymnasts. Ugly: The poor sportsmanship from some of the people who particpated. Some of us will never ever have the chance to be in the Olympics. You were the best your country had to offer and you acted like an ass? I hope your fellow countrymen are ashamed of you and let you know it.
Overall, I enjoyed these Olympics. I won’t say they were my favorite but they certainly will stick in my mind, mainly for the Opening Ceremonies, as well as the fact that the Host Country generated so much drama. I know that there are major political issues with China but someone’s always going to have a beef with whatever country is hosting so I let it go and enjoy the competitions. I think Jacques Rogge (President of the IOC) said it best when, responding to Bob Costas’ question about why the IOC didn’t hold China to some of the promises it made about cleaning up its Human Rights issues and censorship, he said that people shouldn’t expect the IOC to accomplish in 2 weeks what several Heads of State, Presidents, and diplomats have tried to do for over 20 years. And to that, I say “Word, Jacques. Word.”
Louis Smith reins in pommel horse bronze
Posted by admin - 09/03/08 at 05:03:27 pmThe British teenager won bronze in the pommel horse final to become the first GB man to ever claim a gymnastics individual medal.
Original post by BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition and software by Elliott Back
Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter win rowing Olympic gold
Posted by admin - 06/03/08 at 10:03:18 pmAnother record broken this time by Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter who became the first British lightweight rowers to win a gold Olympics medal.
Original post by BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition and software by Elliott Back
Xiang Cheng restaurant
Posted by admin - 04/03/08 at 10:03:30 pmThere are a million food joints in Shanghai, so new discoveries are made every second. My latest favorite is a Sichuan restaurant near my hotel. The address is 1297 Kai Xuan Lu, at Anshu Lu. It is a typical rustic style Chinese restaurant, with big wooden tables and plenty of big red lanterns hanging from the ceiling. A big feature is the home brewed beer. Yes indeed, you may order black or white, and both are superb. Otherwise, we ordered some fine dumplings, a tasty frog dish with plenty of that Sichuan whallop, and a very flavorful chicken dish. Flavor. No shortage of it at this joint. I was the guest of Shen Hong, a Shanghai educator, who graciously and patiently listened to my outrageous ideas on secondary education (exam free, arts heavy, etc.) Jing provided the lively conversation.
Short Fuse: The Art of Chess in Chinatown Park
Posted by admin - 01/03/08 at 06:03:30 amBy Harvey Blume
Whether you are seriously hooked on chess or casually intrigued by it, you probably think of the tables in Cambridge’s Holyoke Center as the Boston area’s one big outdoor chess venue. That’s, after all, where the Chess Master sets out his board a few tables down from his counterpart, the redoubtable Chess Mister. That’s where you can play both regular chess and blitz, the high-speed version, most any day, for $2.00 a pop, against skilled competition. (If you win — it does occasionally happen — you get your $2.00 back.) And that’s where, if you’re learning, you can find a teacher.
Who knew? Chinatown Park on the southern tip of the Greenway rivals Harvard Square as a home for outdoor chess
Of course, if you’d been bitten by the chess bug, you didn’t need me to tell you about the scene at Holyoke Center. You knew.
But if you knew, you probably thought that’s all there is to outdoor chess in Boston. If so, you were mistaken. There is another venue where the game is played with at least as much passion and relish — the game, that is,if you’re capable of wrapping your mind around the fact that chess speaks more than one language. (more…)
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