Finally! I'm done with transcribing. Woohoo!

Why NBC's Olympics coverage sucks: NBC thinks I'm interested in competitions not featuring U.S. athletes.

"They do love their badminton in China." The question here is, Why?

I'm amazed at how NBC screws up Olympics coverage.

My weekend begins, finally. More transcribing tomorrow.

Equestrian: How is riding a horse that trots in circles a sport?

Sigh. Time to get ready for work.

This storm reminds me of Guam. Two seasons there: rainy season and not-quite-as-rainy-as-it-is-during-the-rainy-season season

Now it's raining hard...and dark.

http://ping.fm/p/e9AfQ - Gutter, like a firehose

http://ping.fm/p/GS78m - Raining...hard

Blog post: It’s OK as long as you don’t love her… http://ping.fm/Q4gm3

How many cheerleaders does it take to break an elevator? http://ping.fm/LgOUc You don't need to be smart to be cheerleader.

Twitter hit the mainstream. Fortune magazine ran a feature on it in the current issue.

Football isn't like marriage

This summer's sports soap opera has finally ended with the Green Bay Packers trading their un-retiring and future hall of fame quarterback Brett Favre to the New York Jets.

Packers president Mark Murphy said, "It's like a marriage that ends. It happens. Neither party is at fault."

Now I'm a guy who views Superbowl Sunday as a holiday (albeit a secular one - like Labor Day). But even I do not confuse a business negotiation with a marriage.

Uh, Mr. Murphy? Football is not like marriage. Divorce is never no one's fault. In marriage, two people take vows. These vows normally involve a lifetime commitment, unlike a football contract. Marriages the end in divorce are because one or both spouses don't live up to those vows.

Marriage is in trouble when so casually dismiss one of the greatest tragedies in society.



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Do you remember?

Someday I'll be able to tell my grandchildren that I remember where I was when I learned that Brett Favre got traded to the New York Jets... (continue reading &aquo;)

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