Quote of the Day [4.07.09]

“The Yankees are used to friendly crowds at Camden Yards, where the Orioles have been also-rans for more than a decade. But this time the park was stuffed with 48,607 boisterous fans, most of them wearing orange and black. They delighted in Sabathia’s struggles.”

“New Stars Fizzle as the Yankees Absorb a Beating” NYTimes 4-7-09

Banzaii Japan!

The final game in the World Baseball Classic looks to have been a good one. Big powerhouses of baseball slugging it out. The stands filled with fanatical fans. Clutch hitting. Clutch pitching. Some brilliant plays on defense. I should’ve watched it. Maybe you can too.

Link of the Day [12.29.08]

It’s a good time to be a skater in SoCal. If you know anything about skateboarding history, you know that pool skating became huge because of the emptying of pools in the 70s. Now we have more houses being abandoned because of the housing market turmoil, and once again we are having an emptying of pools. I wonder if people are flying planes to find the hidden gems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/us/29pools.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Link of the Day [12.09.08]

I link to the New York Times more than any other site in my daily links.
I wonder if it's because I am lazy or if I find there stories and
articles good. Most likely, it's because it is one of the first stops
in the morning to read, and if you don't have the daily link already
pre-loaded a post, then you'll post almost anything looking for
something interesting. I haven't pre-loaded posts in a week, so I'm
scrambling to find you, my dear readers, something interesting to read.It's been cold this past weekend, and only is it supposed to warm up
again. So, with the cold and with some snow, we turn our ideas to
winter sports namely snowboarding. I haven't been in the last two
seasons. Two winters ago was the warmest that it has ever been; I think
I rode my bike one warm January day. I wasn't even thinking about
snowboarding that winter. Last year, it was more of the same except
that the final weeks in January and February were cold enough, but I was
too lazy to want to go ride.Maybe, if we had a late season like they do at Riksgransen I would've
ridden more. Not until the end did I want to carve some s-turns over
freshly groomed slopes.http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/travel/07arctic.html?partner=permal
ink&exprod=permalink

Captured on screen

Here’s the Big Picture’s take on the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies. I missed the opening part with the drumming, the dancing and the children singing. I watched the parade of countries and that silly space walk for the Olympic flame. I just wanted to see the fireworks. For the country that invented them, it looked spectacular.

NBC coverage of the 2008 Olympics sucks!!

Suck it, NBC. Can’t you fucking support PPC? I want my Men’s Road Cycling now!

Update 1:

So I switch to the MacBook Pro. I need some Microsoft shit?! WTF?!? Can’t they use sucky flash? At least it’s built right into my browser!

Update 2:

Now I have to switch from Camino to Safari!!! WTF?! Camino is a Firefox variant?! Can’t they do anything right? (NBC and MS)

Update 3:

And that shit is beta?! WTF?!?!

I’m just gonna go to sleep, and read about it in the morning. Or see it on youtube.

Link of the Day [8.07.08]

It’s the day before the 2008 Olympics in China. For all their advances in commerce and capitalism, let’s not forget how totalitarian the regime is. Their staging of the Olympics is a propoganda device meant to show the world that they are ready to be a part of it. Yet, they can still do what they did almost twenty years ago except now with a corporate logo.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/

Dans le Tour, c’est l’anniversaire de Bastille

It’s July 14, therefore it’s Bastille Day. And another day on the Tour. It’s the monster stage of this year’s Tour” Pau-Hautacam. It’s got two hors category climbs, the Tourmalet and the ski town of Hautacam.

What a battle on those two slopes! It brought the GC contenders to the fore and showed who the pretenders are. Cadel Evens, Frank Schleck and the American, Christian Vande Velde in the former, and Valverde in the latter.

That’s just awesome.

Let’s go for a ride up the side of a mountain!