Yay! It's over... for now.

[vakkotaur]

According to another journal, they're finally over, but they'll return like a resistant infection in 2010. Of course it's still not a good idea to turn on broadcast television as there is soon to be a political convention, followed by another political convention. And then campaign commercials and campaign coverage (for TV values of...) ad nauseum

Comments

[thecanuckguy]

Well, in 2010 at least the Canadians are doing it, so at least you'll be guaranteed a few things

[vakkotaur]

It's not so much about the host country. I just don't like sports. The icon sums up more than just the political problems with this years host country, I think

[thecanuckguy]

It's not so much about the host country. I just don't like sports.

I'm not really into sports myself (note that I didn't say I didn't like them, I'm just ambivalent toward them; and if I act like I'm excited about them (like when Winnipeg was in the Grey Cup last year), my lack of knowledge outs me pretty quickly.)

As I mentioned, I'm way more interested in it from a vexillological and anthematological point of view, as I said, it's like the Olympics for me or something! (Sadly, it was subpar for me on that front, the only medal ceremony I got to see (despite the Games being on in the background somewhat during the two weeks or so they were on) was the marathon during the closing ceremony - and there were no real surprises with flags, and the anthems were plagarized (from a composer/conductor/musician that I know personally put in a lot of hard work on the originals)

[yakko]

I'd never realized the Olympics existed until Lake Placid - 1980. And for a long time after that, when I heard "olympics," I thought "snow skiing, figure skating, bobsledding..."

I managed to go the two weeks without being exposed to more than about 10 minutes of the summer games.

2009-02-17 is when -over-the-air broadcasts- in NTSC stop in the USA. Canada uses NTSC as well, so may have over-the-air broadcasts in NTSC beyond our cutover. These will be cut over to ATSC format and require HDTV tuners and antennas to pull off the air. I don't think cable or satellite operators will cut over from NTSC to ATSC at that point -- they certainly aren't obligated to.

[nefaria]

London was going cuckoo for the 2012 Olympics long before the 2008 Olympics started (there was a Doctor Who episode about it two or three years ago). Well, Olympics > war anyway.