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[agilebrit]

Dude. The US Olympic basketball just lost to Puerto Rico. *cough* By nearly 20 points. I think this is the first time we've lost an Olympic basketball game since they started allowing professionals to play. How depressing. [brightening] On a better note, one of the Puerto Rican players was Carlos Arroyo of the Utah Jazz. So, how cool is that?

Sharing honorh's fangirlish squeeing over the Hamm brothers. The swimmers don't really do anything for me, but the gymnasts? Oh, yeah. Isn't it interesting how different sports create different body types? And honestly...what is up with the male beach volleyball players wearing so many clothes? I understand the shorts, but the shirts? Need to go. Or, you know, be tighter or something.

Apparently the mail came yesterday while we were up in Park City, and my elephant wasn't able to be delivered because if something is insured for over a hundred dollars, you have to sign for it. So I won't get him until tomorrow. *sob* Not that I have shelf space for him anyway. Heh. Gonna have to do some rearranging, I think. Again.

I just finished a Terry Pratchett book called "Strata." Not funny like the Discworld books, but it has flashes of humor here and there and may have been his precursor to the Discworld series. It's...interesting. Go. Find. Read.

Bleh. I'm coming down with a summer cold. It started yesterday with some swelling in my throat, and it's steadily getting worse with some pain there and a headache. And I'm really tired. Summer colds are the worst. Ugh.

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[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Remember the moral of Miracle, that a team that plays like a team can defeat a group of great players who hadn't played together before. I remember seeing the Pro Bowl in 1981 (when I still lived there) and having Roger Staubach (Dallas Cowboys) consistantly assume that Ahmad Rashad (Minnesota Vikings) was 2 feet taller than he really was. Roger was unhurried, Rashad was open, and the throw was over his head over and over again.

Of course, Michael Jordan isn't on this year's USA team.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Michael Jordan is a team all by himself. LOL I'm just happy to see a team with a Jazzman win, if the US couldn't do it. And I know it's hard to mesh a bunch of guys who haven't played together before. But damb...the three-point line in the Olympics is, like, two feet closer to the basket than it is in pro ball. And they couldn't hit it? Oh well. Better luck in a couple of days, I guess.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

I remember a finals game against the Jazz. (I don't watch sports much, but this was a memory.) He had like a 110-degree fever and was visibly dragging his tail up and down the court, but he still was the point leader by nearly double anyone else. To borrow from The Princess Bride, he is the brute squad.

As a good American, I want the USA to make a clean sweep, grabbing all the gold. But I want them to earn it, and if they can't pull it together.... Here's hoping they play better next game.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

"Strata" was indeed the precursor to the "Discworld" books. It's also a parody of Larry Niven's "Ringworld", and if you've read "Ringworld" it becomes a lot funnier. Not just a few flashes of humour, or 'humor' as you Merkins would say, but a lot of humour. Although nothing like as much as in the "Discworld" books, some of which had me laughing to the point where internal injury loomed ominously near.

In your User Information you claim that at 40 you may be one of the world's oldest Buffy fans. Huh! I am 50. I spit on your 40. But we will speak of that no more.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Man, most of that humor probably went right over my head; it's been, probably, a decade and a half since I've read "Ringworld." So, that's what that was, niggling at the back of my brain. LOL

After attending WriterCon, I now realize that my age is by no means unusual amongst Buffy fans. At least, amongst Buffy fans who can write more than "everyone's human and in high school" fics, anyway.

Welcome to my LJ! I found you through the lovely appomattoxco, who turned me on to your "Pandora's Boxer" fic. Which I now need to re-read so I can remember what it's about, since living with a three-year-old has fried what few brain cells I had left after college...