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I try to root for underdogs, but with a German background and having lived in Germany for a few years, I’ll be rooting for them.
As an aside, I have never seen a sport that has better, more consistent, and more controlled officiating than what I have seen so far in the World Cup. They are decisive, accurate, but very unobtrusive.
Which means I have no jinxed them and there will be a horrid call in no time.
by John Cole| 69 Comments
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Have at it.
I have a full fledged case of World Cup fever.
CBS Sunday Morning/World Cup Open ThreadPost + Comments (69)
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Because I can. And it is still less cheesy than this guy:
… In late August, Mr. Kurzweil will begin a cross-country multimedia road show to promote “Transcendent Man,” a documentary about his life and beliefs. Another of his projects, “The Singularity Is Near: A True Story About the Future,” has also started to make its way around the film festival circuit.
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Throughout “Transcendent Man,” Mr. Kurzweil is presented almost as a mystic, sitting in a chair with a shimmering, circular light floating around his head as he explains his philosophy’s basic tenets. During one scene at a beach, he is asked what he’s thinking as he stares out at a beautiful sunset with waves rolling in and wind tussling his hair.
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“Well, I was thinking about how much computation is represented by the ocean,” he replies. “I mean, it’s all these water molecules interacting with each other. That’s computation.”
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Mr. Kurzweil is the writer, producer and co-director of “The Singularity Is Near,” the tale of Ramona, a virtual being he builds that gradually becomes more human, battles hordes of microscopic robots and taps the lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz for legal advice and the motivational guru Tony Robbins for guidance on personal interactions…
[…] By the 2030s, most people will be able to achieve mental immortality by similarly backing up their brains, Mr. Kurzweil predicts, as the Singularity starts to come into full flower.
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Yes, I am sure the future will be weirder than we imagine. But a future where Alan M. Dershowitz and Tony Robbins discourse eternally to a bunch of frantically networking MBAs — under the supervision, no doubt, of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin — brings a whole new flavor to the term ‘dystopia’, doesn’t it?
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Just watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and I thought it was a great action flick. If I had known it was going to be that much fun, I would have watched it months ago.
by John Cole| 78 Comments
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Not sure what it is, but I’m having some pretty low energy days. Blah.
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Go USA!
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Reasonably sure if I were Green, I’d just start drinking now. I could have stopped that goal.
by John Cole| 70 Comments
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Sorry if my terminology is all wrong, but I am finding Argentina’s style of play much more exciting than the two games I watched yesterday. They seem to be much more adept at quick passes backwards so they can slash forwards, and it is a lot more exciting than the stuff of the France/Uruguay game. That reminded me of watching a New Jersey Devils game in the 90’s with their neutral zone trap that just slowed the game down to nothing. The Argentinian ball handling skills just seem better than what we have seen in the other two games.
As always, I may have no idea what I am talking about.