'Bring On The Night'
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Weirdly enough (it's not my product group, so no vested interest), I'm glad to hear it.
Honestly, I'm seriously cranky at no Linux options (since that's my default tv-watching box), and I didn't like having to install something new. But good compression is pretty much where I live, and if I can get a clear picture on my dodgy home cable connection even when it's big enough to watch it TV-style, it's a win.
Weirdly enough (it's not my product group, so no vested interest), I'm glad to hear it.
(Part of my product group. I edited a tiny bit of the docs.)
Aha! I know some people in my org worked on it pre-reorg, but I wasn't sure where it wound up.
Slovenia!
(Hey! quit cutting away from the Slovenes, dammit!)
Aha! I know some people in my org worked on it pre-reorg, but I wasn't sure where it wound up.I'm not the main editor, but I've done a fair amount of back-up work for them.
Okay, the flame lighting is a bit of a moment.
Okay, the flame lighting is a bit of a moment.
Yeah, yeah it was.
Oh, god, I'd missed the story of the kid. I'm kinda glad I did, to save the sniffles until now.
I'm kinda glad I did, to save the sniffles until now.
Oh, I've been blinky-eyed off and on through the whole thing.
I loved the drumming, and the printing press bit. and the Tai Chi folks running in circles. On rewind, I could see the earphones, which at least begin to explain how they were so perfectly in unison.
Pretty awesome.
I also loved the Ghana-an outfits. Whereas the Hungarians --was it the Hungarians with the red flowers all over the women's outfits? -- ought to be ashamed.
Also, the American hats were dorky. Esp since the broadcasters kept calling them "berets". They're driving caps, doofuses. Sheesh.
Still, that was... pretty damned remarkable. Except that it was clear a ton of those people weren't actually athletes, so now I don't know whether the Iraqi woman is competing, or is just a friend/assistant/coach/whatever.
Dude, in Australia an archer lit it from hundreds of feet away.
No, that was Barcelona. If Australia went that route, we probably would've had someone cracking a tinnie, finishing it, stuffing the torch inside and bowling it overarm into a giant wheelie bin.
Most of those pictures seemed to say "Welcome to China. We have a fuckton plus of people. Just so you know."
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