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Time flies… “summer” is about finished in so many ways and the ramp up of the end of year is coming up. There’s a bit of a yearly “corporate life cycle” - the ebbs and flows - and we plan our holidays and other activities around it. This year is happening really fast [...]

McCain’s pick for Vice president left me a bit puzzled; I mean, all very nice that you picked a woman (and a governor), but the political positions involved leave me uncomfortable and Governor Palin’s experience level left me a little underwhelmed. John Dickerson of Slate summed up with a “Huh?” in his headline; yes, [...]

As four years previously: we jump from the Olympics to the conventions. I still had some Olympics withdrawal. Oh well.
Wrap up of the Olympics:
The NY Times’ slide show on the reaction of Chinese-Americans in Flushing to the Olympics.
So the US’ NBA guys won the gold (with Duke University’s Coach K), [...]

Kind of not quite looking forward to Olympic withdrawal; in the meantime, some stuff:
So, the thing that kind of makes me laugh about beach volleyball as an Olympic sport… well, geez, what’s with the 1990’s music and the DJ’s? (some explanation or analysis can be found on Slate - which was nice, but I [...]

One of the entertaining things about the whole Beijing Olympics is that the time difference of 12 hours makes it confusing as to when what happened; Michael Phelps’ final rounds, for instance, occurred at 10pm EST, but actually the next day 10am local time. At least it was aired live (well, EST anyway; I [...]