Errrr, make that the Horseguards Parade where beach volleyball took place at the London Olympics. I felt I was living there for a while; NBC telecast a lot of beach volleyball (mostly but not all women's). It must have been on the ch8illy side, too. Along with the traditional gear of bikinis, I saw bikini bottoms with what looked like warmup ( Read more... )

Was entranced early by fencing, first epee and then sabre. I was remarking to my husband that they'd gone all high-tech with sensors and flashing lights. He said even when he took fencing in college they had some of that. Wait! My husband took fencing in college? I never knew that ( Read more... )

Gold medal winner for the women's gymnastics individual all-around competition, Gabby Douglas, is a native of Virginia Beach*, which is really nearby Newport News so even our local paper, which sometimes likes to pretend the Southside doesn't exist, featured a nice photo and big story on her. I have mixed feelings about women's gymnastics--such ( Read more... )

omg It is ( Read more... )

I was enjoying the opening ceremonies for the summer olympics right up to the point where our power went off. And came back on, momentarily. Then went off. Which pattern it had displayed both the day before and the day before that, albeit earlier in the day and for a very short duration. This time it stayed off for about two hours. I missed ( Read more... )

So I'm looking at the IMDB logo and there's a cat head next to it. "Why is there a cat head next to the logo?" I asked myself. Just as I was clicking on it I thought "It's probably the Cheshire Cat from the new Alice in Wonderland." Yep, that was it ( Read more... )

Well, I'm guessing NBC will show footage of the closing ceremonies tonight, but the Olympics are over. Kind of lost track the last couple of days, but I do know the Redeem Team succeeded in basketball, Ussain (the lightning) Bolt struck again, Bryan Clay is the World's Greatest Athlete (i.e., the Decathalon winner), and the U. S. Men's Volleyball ( Read more... )

If, as I now suspect, the Google Olympic logos led off with Ox, then it was about time for Rooster to show up. He did! He's today's sports star, and the sport appears to be baseball. It could be softball, but it's probably baseball ( Read more... )

Not too many days left now. Tiger is kicking it, literally, in tai kwan do (sp?).

Bryan Clay is ahead in the decathalon. Woo!

I believe Rat is starring in Google's logo today, and he appears to be doing the Fosbury Flop. That would make the discipline Track & Field and the event the high jump. Go, rodent ( Read more... )