Mildly Hurtful Sarcasm

Meaningless ranting, just like everybody else.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

London Olympics 2012 opening ceremony

Several things I find odd in today's Olympics opening ceremony, no, nothing to do with the queen doing James Bond (although I also thought it was pretty funny)
  1. NBC did not broadcast it live even though it was a day time event.
  2. There were disproportionally lots of athletes of African decent in the French team.
  3. There were disproportionally lots of athletes of European decent in several African teams (notably the flag bearer of the Kenyan team).
  4. Britain's imperial past was skillfully excluded from the show, probably to avoid alienating... just about everybody.
The Sydney games saw the most amazing Olympics flame - it was a ring of fire raised from under a pool of water. In Athens they lit it with a bow and arrow. Beijing went back to the guide rail, which was a downer, but at least they hoisted a guy. So it's such a disappointment that London's flame is just... that...







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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Noodle scam

I was with my mother at the Chinese market and saw this today and I just find it remarkable. As if not putting in real egg is not cheap enough, they are counterfeit? Seriously?

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Monday, July 02, 2012

My first prefab

The street outside of work is really churning up some construction dust. First they put up a hotel in front of Brocade the communication company and a small shopping center with a Target, a Sweet Tomatoes, a Five Guys and a few others last year. This year they have torn down quite a few office buildings to make way for who knows what. Amoung them a pre-fab accommodation of some sort. Trucks haul these boxes to the site and a large (relatively large consider where it is) crane hoists them into position. It looks like the workers just screw them on and peel the labels and will be done. It's the first time I've seen something like this, interesting.



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