I hate the bogus cauldron lightings, where they just kinda shoot a flaming projectile somewhere near the cauldron, or light something else big near the cauldron but the cauldron is clearly lit not by the flame from the torch but by a pilot light. I'm not one who is big on symbolism, but I do find the idea of the continuity of the olympic flame, being lit in Greece and being passed torch-to-torch until it reaches the games pretty cool, and it's lame that the final most spectacular part is bogus.

Was it the archer in '92, Barcellona, that started that?

There was a speed skater named Ho Suck. BWAHAHAHAHA!

Ok, It was really Lee Ho-Suk, but I read it as Ho Suck. Hehehehehe.

Just keep in mind that scaeagles (ессиаигльс)means "to felch" in Kazakh.

It's too bad the third Korean wasn't disqualified for impeding his countrymen.

This is really cool...a relative in Vancouver sent this to me:

Panoramic View of Olympic Village

I guess thinking about it would have made me realize it, but seeing the injury to the second US short track speed skater from the nationals 6 months ago made me realize how incredibly dangerous that short track stuff is. Yikes.

Hey, I wonder, with the start of the luge competition being moved down the hill, is there enough track for the racers to make up time at the bottom of the run?

Mixed emotions. On the one hand, I would have enjoyed the irony of an ex-pat spoiling Canada's latest chance at ending the home-gold drought. On the other hand, he's a spammer, so fvck him.

While I understand their logic I'm still bitter we're being shoved to cable.

Team USA vs. Canda regulated to MSNBC just in case something historic happens

My Olympics journal. After watching 3 minutes of ski jumping yesterday (1 jump total) today I watched about 10 minutes of 10k biathlon.

So I think I've seen two of the least interesting TV sports in history (I have no doubt of the skill and athleticism necessary but they both make for horrible TV unless something goes horribly wrong).

Though it was refreshing that the announcers for the biathlon were very blunt in saying "because of the fresh snow that started falling after the race began, the early finishers will win and these people you're watching now could have just stayed home since they have no chance of making this interesting." They were practically saying "go ahead and change the channel, they're probably selling the slapchop on one of them and that would be more exciting."