• Let it flow - The Beautiful Game
  A call for the referees to ease off a bit. It has gotten out of control. Then again, both my teams (Holland and the USA) have been eliminated in games where the poor refereeing overshadowed the excellent play on the pitch, so I am understandably bitter.
  (tags: WorldCup football soccer)

I want to apologize to the country of Holland for the following acts of mine that led to such a disgraceful loss to Portugal… (read the rest)

Update: More serious commentary on the game. I really wanted to like Marco Van Basten. I like his style of playing the younger, lesser-known, players. At least whoever picks up the reins will have a squad full of talented youngsters going into 2010. Hup Holland!

This is pretty meaningless for obvious reasons, but see if you can tell the difference between Ann Coulter and Hitler.

Congrats to the US team. After a horrendous first game we were able to recover (some of) our form against Italy and Ghana. Maybe next time. At least my other team is still in the tournament.

• Yoda Plush Backpack
  Awesome.

• How to open a bottle of beer the Scandinavian way
  Someone asked me if I know how to do this the other day. Now I do.
  (tags: beer)
• Raph’s Website » User created content
  An analysis of user-generated content, especially in the context of games.
• The Beautiful Game
  A blog about “The Beautiful Game” offering some excellent insight on the World Cup.
  (tags: WorldCup soccer football blogs)

Stephen Colbert made Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) look like the stupid ass he undoubtedly is. How do people like this get elected?

• Red Card the Ref!
  Recap of Saturday’s game and the current situation for the US national team.
• comic soccer
  Funny video of football bloopers.
  (tags: football soccer funny humor)

Why does the vending machine at my office have Clamato flavored tortilla chips? Were people clamoring for Clamato?

I have this problem with blogging: I am too lazy to do it with any regularity.

Life news:

I went to Orlando and looked at apartments. I found a lot of places I’d like to live, but nothing near downtown and they’re all quite expensive. Hopefully another FIEA student will want to split some housing with me.

My job is going well. I have short-timer’s syndrome though. So mostly I sit at my desk and read books. Sometimes I surf the internet. I’ve also been streaming the World Cup games with a program called TVUPlayer. (I’m rooting for Holland and of course the USA.)

I recently interviewed with Google. They came across my résumé on a web search. They contacted me and did a preliminary technical screening. I guess I passed, because they scheduled me for a second technical screening, this time with an engineer instead of a recruiter. I declined the interview because I’m already set on going to grad school. I may post the few questions they asked me later.

My car’s in the shop this week. It had a very minor issue that, due to some awful engineering, caused the car to refuse to shift out of “park”.

Thus concludes my one minute summary of the past few months.