June 2008
29 posts
Andy Murray vs Gasquet
I wouldn’t ordinarily write about this except that I’ve noticed during week 1 of Wimbledon that players these days don’t seem to chase the ball as they used to. Edberg, Becker, Sampras, Agassi, Ivanisevic, Cash and McEnroe of course used to throw themselves around on the grass. Players now seem to forego chasing and acrobatics for winning a point later.
Murray just covered some...
Refreshing: Fan filmed Amy Winehouse "incident"... →
This shows the media up as nothing else could. A man who was elbowed in the head by Amy Winehouse at Glastonbury decides that a) someone else threw a hat at her which she reacted to and just picked the wrong person and much more importantly b) that it’s just part and parcel of being at the front of the crowd at Glastonbury. No lasting damage. Not hurt. What’s the fuss?
I love it.
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Birthday party snub sparks debate →
Hmmm. That’s Sweden off the list of places I’m retiring to… I think that only leaves Spain and Iran now…
New York City Waterfalls →
When it’s pissing it down, as it occasionally does in New York (it tends to do weather pretty big, like much of the US), the drains on the Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges pour straight down, sending jets of water straight down. Most of them go straight into the river, but I’ve been in a taxi that’s driven through one on the FDR. They dissipate by the time they...
WatchIf you ever were crap at physics at school and wondered what the whole point of it was, here’s the whole point of it. Here, in this video.
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Daily Neologia: Aspirationym
Watching the excellent first day of Wimbledon today I was surprised by two examples of Aspirationyms from the players. I hope it’s merely coincidental, but the players were both American.
The first, from Serena Williams whilst discussing her warm-up trenchcoat (what?), was that she was “ladylike”. She also called the coat “deluctable”, but that was a mistake so...
Daily Misguidance
There’s a State Farm commercial running right now (can’t find a video) for the 2008 Home Run Derby which depicts a kid in a Cubs shirt on his bike. The commentator talks about a hit going out of the field. The kid races his bike and passes it to the local baker (or whatever) as he vaults off it, runs down, jumps a wire fence and finds himself just outside the stadium in a crowd of...
When Tornadoes Attack: What a Tornado Taught Me... →
A really well written first hand account of being caught by a tornado, from a Gizmodo writer, and so some good (if obvious) obervations on gadget use.
WX: SWAP
Dani flew back to JFK tonight after our week in the UK and Slovenia for Rufus’s wedding (which was phenomenal, by the way, but since Pete wasn’t in attendance we don’t have photos online yet). I declined the role of Best Man for this one on the basis that I didn’t know if I would be able to attend, and in the end it worked out brilliantly with fantastic speeches from the...
3G or not 3G...
…why can’t they make my decision easy?
New stuff for the 3G iPhone, and some great changes, but some glaring omissions:
Better camera. 2MP, in 2008?
Choice of carriers. I *hate* AT&T even more than T-Mobile.
In-store activation only. What?! What about the convenience of the internet and not having to actually be in contact with the normals? In New York that means far too great...
Desponsion
Today we watched HBO’s brilliantly cast and on first viewing utterly compelling “Recount”. I don’t know if it’s been broadcast in the UK yet. If it has, I hope you watched it or have it recorded. If it hasn’t, I hope it is, very soon, or that you download it.
All the feelings of exasperation, of being overwhelmed by irrelevant minutiae, of rapidly losing faith...
