Great Brightkite Search Result

I searched for ‘a really shit place’ in NY on Brightkite (I’m in a bad mood). Here’s what it returned (click image for bigger version).

Lawl. Cheered me up no end. Well, about 5%.

Holland: Not Quite as good at football as I thought

Well, that sucked yesterday.  Holland just completely outplayed by the barnstorming Russians.  At least they lost to a team that played lovely fluid attacking football, would have doubly sucked for them to lose to a bunch of bodgers who stuck 10 men behind the ball at all times and hoped for a corner or free kick (a la Greece).  But they still lost, which is ass.

Spain is my only hope now.  Hope they manage to do the business against the Italians today, but given my record so far I’m not too optimistic.

Tiger Woods

Good at golf.

The end.

Holland

Good at football.

The end.

Geni.com Sent me a Father’s Day Reminder Today. Problem: My Father is Dead.

Way to go Geni. You’d think that given that the whole point of the site is to log my family tree, and the fact that my father is clearly listed as deceased in that family tree, maybe it wouldn’t be a great idea to send me a father’s day reminder?

At least they say ‘send a father’s day greeting to any dad in your tree’, but come on. What a bunch of jokers.

http://www.geni.com/home

Life = Brilliant

A high-profile US obscenity trial has been put on hold after it emerged that the top federal judge hearing it had posted sexually explicit material on his personal website including footage of a semi-naked man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal.

Other material found on Judge Alex Kozinski’s site, which has now been blocked, included a photograph of nude women on all fours painted to look like cows and another of a young man giving himself fellatio.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4122560.ece

Dutch Highlights. Watch the Second Goal and drool.

Starts 40 seconds in if you’re impatient. One of the best goals you’ll ever see. As a result I have decided to be Dutch through the end of the month. Oh yes.

This is one of my favorite goals ever. Brilliant stuff. Goal line clearance, five passes to the other end… goal. Ole. Like I said, I’m Dutch through the end of June.

http://www.mysoccermedia.com/index.php?module=detail&video_id=1102&lang_id=1

Sorry about the cluster of a site: embedded video is on the right hand side down a bit.

I’m Changing Nationalities: Dutch until the end of the Euros

After a few average (to dull) games, Euro 2008 really got going today with a brilliant performance from the Dutch, who humbled world champions Italy beating them 3-0. A very odd goal from RVN, who it turns out was not actually offside, and an absolute screamer by Sneijder. Wanted him to sign for united when he moved. Today’s goal didn’t do anything to change that opinion.

The buildup to almost every major tournament in my lifetime has generally included a bunch of tipsters predicting tournament glory by either Holland or Spain. The Spanish then crash out in the first round, and the Dutch flatter to deceive, look brilliant for a bit then all go batshit crazy at one another and implode.  Very entertaining in its own way, but somewhat disappointing given the talent they have.

This time round nobody’s been talking about the Dutch as contenders (though seems everyone likes Spain). Wondering if this could be their year? Maybe with the pressure off they’ll perform – certainly done themselves a big favor after this game.

So, for the rest of June I’ll be supporting the Dutch. I don’t own anything orange, but I love windmills and edam so it’s all good.

O iTunes library, why do you taunt me so?

Spent a part of this weekend trying to sort out my ferocious mess of an iTunes library. I travel a lot so I’ve got tune spread out over a few machines and drives. Over the years it’s turned into a horrid mess, with the end result that I’ve now got about 100 gig of music spread all over the place, and a  ridiculous number of duplicates. Some of my albums are replicated five or six times, it’s horrifying.

I need a good way to consolidate. Other than spending a week going through it by hand.  Tried a bunch of crappy bits of software that claim to do it, but no beans.

Ho hum.