An amazing first game for the US and a classic line after the first goal:
The Yanks ahead! Incredibly! Within seconds! Now that is dreamland.
Category: Crazy
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Now That is Dreamland
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World Cup Fever
Brooklyn is going crazy with this World Cup. Of course it’s a very international place. Our pastry shop next door is connected to a French restaurant and they are bringing in a huge screen a projector to watch all games. Seems like every place in our neighborhood is doing something like that.
And right by my office is this:
That is the arch under the Manhattan Bridge. I may watch US/Ghana there.
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John Oliver on FIFA
I have yet to watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver because it’s on too damn late, but pretty much every week I watch a video from it.
Some blog sites are considered “long form” because they write longer articles that not everyone will read. This is long form comedy. He takes a topic and does over 10 minutes on it.
Anyway, another hilarious episode:
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All By Myself
If you haven’t seen this already, this guy got stuck in the Vegas airport overnight. So he made a video with his phone…
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Google Buys Skynet
Great headline from Daring Fireball…
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FBI Surveillance Van #345
I’m a connoisseur of amusing Wi-Fi network names. While connecting to the free Dumbo Wi-Fi I couldn’t help noticing this one.
Bravo.
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Secretariat
As we approach the Belmont with California Chrome as a possible Triple Crown winner for the first time in 30 years, I can’t help think back to Secretariat. I was 9. My parents grew up in Louisville, so Derby Day was an event and we always watched. I wasn’t particularly a horse racing fan and I’m still not, but Secretariat was something to watch.
His winning time in the Belmont is still the record. I heard someone say today that the next closest time in history would have lost by 10 lengths (Secretariat won by a ridiculous 31 lengths).
I still remember watching that race, simply because it was no contest. How often do you see a horse race where not only is the winner the only horse visible on the screen, but the camera man has to pan left quite a bit to see the runner up.
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John Oliver brings down the FCC
Well, their website anyway.
Following my previous post, where John Oliver asks internet trolls to go wild on the FCC comments section, they apparently brought down the site…
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John Oliver on Net Neutrality
A hilarious (but NSFW) take:
The internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that.
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