Monthly Archives: July 2010

no score, but beer

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

40 minutes in and things are still kind of quiet – not only in my opinion, and not only is the score still 0-0, but the crowd has only made noise a few times and those were mostly for injuries, … Continue reading →

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quick note

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

Dear Dutch player: Please to not take your cues from the way the Americans were playing. Kicking the ball way across the field and directly to someone from the other team is bad. Even I know that! (Kicking your opponent … Continue reading →

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it begins

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

Funny – the first channel I found the game on was in German, of which I understand even less than I do Dutch. SO I was scouting around for a local channel and I found one, all right – Omroep … Continue reading →

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photos!

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

I was right – it’s not really possible to take great crowd photos if you can’t get up above them. But I had to at least try. This is just the queue for an ATM – a very uniformly-colored queue. … Continue reading →

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*my* sport

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

Hey, while scouting around for the right channel to see the game, I found the other World Cup – the rowing one in Lucerne – being shown on Eurosport. Cool. Great Britain won the men’s eight, the US was something … Continue reading →

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the songs

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

I just did a little web research to figure out what some of the songs are that I keep hearing. Apparently the one that goes to the tune of Auld Lang Syne is “Wij houden van oranje” (We love orange). … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging the World Cup

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

Might as well, it’s not like I’ll want or be able to do anything *else* tonight! Though some poor football fan is going to end up here via Google and be terribly disappointed. Not in South Africa, sorry. Also, I’ll … Continue reading →

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NAYY (website review)

Posted on July 11, 2010 by dichroic

I’m not putting this under a cut because a fair number of people are interested in either bras or website usability, in addition to those who care about both. Just now I was looking up some bras. (And by the … Continue reading →

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Rube Goldberg’s great-grandsons

Posted on July 10, 2010 by dichroic

I have a relative-in-law who occasionally sends us forwarded emails that mostly range from mildly annoying to mildly amusing. He just sent the best one ever, a link to the video below. It was titled “WHAT ENGINEERS DO IN THEIR … Continue reading →

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facing a whole weekend with nothing much I have to do and a whole Richard Thompson mix

Posted on July 10, 2010 by dichroic

Jaime’s post reminded me that there’s a lot of Richard Thompson on YouTube:. Just imagine hearing him play in your living room. Or someone’s living room, anyway: And if you click on that video and go over to YouTube, on … Continue reading →

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