The Olympics So Far

Everybody's going to be talking about badminton in a bit, so let me weigh in with the sports that I'm watching alone.


Choi Min-Ho is GOD. I am in awe of the Judo he plays. The above throw is a te-guruma, or hand wheel, and he managed to pull it off even though Ludwig was sprawled forward. My jaw dropped open throughout the entire thing.


Oh, and it turns out Bill Gates likes Badminton. Cute pants. Hehehe.


Masato Uchishiba won the 66kg class last night, apparently by landing on the Frenchmen's head, and then choking him. Poor Darbelet tapped out. A great bunch of the Thomian judokas were talking about it this morning, and I wondered aloud how the poor guy felt winning like that.

Tonight's match (74 kg) was won with a 13 second morote-gari (double handed reap). Both Elnur Mammadli and Wang Ki-chun are 19.



Sweet. =)

Acheiving Your Childhood Dreams

As of writing, the following video has 6,065,672 views on Youtube, and 20234 ratings, all of which are 5 star. The lecture is an hour long, and it is so moving and so powerful you don't really know whether to laugh or to cry.

This is Randy Pausch's last lecture, and he opens with pictures of the tumours in his liver. He is going to die, and he knows that.

Watch it.

Olympic Hopes?

It's the eve of the Beijing Olympics, everybody is watching that city with anticipation, some even holding their breaths.



They've promised a spectacular visual feast and all the countries have promised to outperform each other in the competition.

Malaysia is sending a relatively small team hoping for one medal of any colour from whatever event they might garner it from.

China is aiming to prove their dominance.

America is going to defend their Champion title.



Who are YOU rooting for?

Presto And His Hat

A Pixar short film. Love the rabbit.

Dr Horrible

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog is a wonderful piece of work.

There are three acts at the moment, and it's incredibly, incredibly funny. Joss Whedon (the guy behind Buffy), on the reasons behind this little project:

The idea was to make it on the fly, on the cheap – but to make it. To turn out a really thrilling, professionalish piece of entertainment specifically for the internet. To show how much could be done with very little. To show the world there is another way. To give the public (and in particular you guys) something for all your support and patience. And to make a lot of silly jokes. Actually, that sentence probably should have come first.

It's GOOD. And it's one week only. Go watch an evil genius in action and sing-along to his freeze ray.

Woohoo.

PS: and you did not hear wrong: the evil leader of the League of Villians IS a horse. Hehehehe.