It's 8:41 am in China, no?
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Aug 09, 2008 5:42:01 pm PDT #2203 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Alibelle - Aug 09, 2008 5:42:34 pm PDT #2204 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I believe NBC made a deal that involved scheduling the popular sports like swimming and gymnastics for really early in the morning so that they could air them live on the East coast.
Hil R. - Aug 09, 2008 5:42:39 pm PDT #2205 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Really, I figure anyone who cares about results knows about them basically as they happen, or is that a bad assumption?
I'd say that's a bad assumption. I don't want to know until I see it happen.
Barb - Aug 09, 2008 5:43:19 pm PDT #2206 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
Because of the exact twelve hour difference, we're going to get to see a lot of events live, so the swimming tonight has been life, Sunday morning swimming in Beijing.
ETA: Twelve hour difference from East Coast time. Sorry. The brain, she is not firing on all cylinders.
flea - Aug 09, 2008 5:44:39 pm PDT #2207 of 10003
information libertarian
China is 14 hours ahead of EST, so it's almost 1pm there. So, nights we can expect live coverage of morning events.
ETA: Nope, Barb is right, it's 12 hours ahead. Which means someone on television is WRONG!
SailAweigh - Aug 09, 2008 5:44:53 pm PDT #2208 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
NBC is live right now. There'a a 12 hour time difference from Beijing to the east coast. So, if it's 10pm in NYC, it's 10am in Beijing. Anything you watch earlier in the day, starting at 9 or 10am, is delayed from the afternoon/evening before.
Jesse - Aug 09, 2008 5:44:59 pm PDT #2209 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's 8:41 am in China, no?
10 -- they're 12 hours off Eastern US time.
I'd say that's a bad assumption. I don't want to know until I see it happen.
Then I am glad I whitefonted!
Jesse - Aug 09, 2008 5:46:37 pm PDT #2210 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is brilliant: Current time in China.
msbelle - Aug 09, 2008 5:57:29 pm PDT #2211 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am trying hard to catch up on the night nbc coverage, but I am about 2 hours behind.
Does anyone else think that Bob Costas' hair looks like a piece? Or is that common knowledge?
Alibelle - Aug 09, 2008 6:12:31 pm PDT #2212 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I love the Olympics. Seriously. Just all the little stories, like Justin Spring, Olympic gymnast, son of an astronaut--talk about interesting family careers. And I love the feeling of the whole world focusing on something at the same time. It just feels very immediate, and community-like, and awesome.
ETA: Sorry, msbelle, I didn't notice Bob's hair. But the next time I see him, I will certainly check it out.