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Olympics do it again

August 17th, 2016 · Comments Off on Olympics do it again · Life

Right up to the eve of the opening ceremony Rio 2016 was shaping up to be the disaster that we thought London would be 4 years ago but, like in 2012, it all seems to be working out fine. In truth, it probably isn’t going as smoothly as London, and even the weather isn’t as […]

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Today’s bright idea #1

August 25th, 2013 · 8 Comments · Life

Sometimes I have ideas. I never do anything with them. In many cases this is probably just as well – I am thinking here of the Zimmer frame/pogo stick hybrid that would never have got funding from the Dragon’s Den. Other ideas get ridiculed by everyone who hears them but years later I find that […]

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Final Olympic thoughts

August 15th, 2012 · Comments Off on Final Olympic thoughts · Life

A few final thoughts on the London Olympics, and especially about the opening and closing ceremonies. The closing ceremony seems to have been as universally criticised as the opening ceremony was praised, but at the time I quite enjoyed it all, even if I now can’t remember why.

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A few more Olympic thoughts

August 14th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Life

The last couple of days of competition found my mind wandering a bit more.

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The Paris 2012 Olympics

August 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life

I have been trying to imagine a parallel world where the vote in 2005 went as expected and Paris ended up hosting the 2012 Olympics.

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A few Olympic thoughts

August 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life

I’ve enjoyed watching the Olympics today. Here are a few random thoughts that occured during the coverage:

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Pedal power

August 7th, 2012 · Comments Off on Pedal power · Life

After work today I watched some of the Olympic cycling, which was exciting, enthralling and totally bonkers. There was no keirin today – the one where the cyclists ride behind a bloke on a moped until the last couple of laps – but there was plenty of baffling variety. The women were taking part in […]

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Sport wins

August 6th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life

What a good weekend. Obviously there were lashings of sport on TV, but there was also a trip out to Essex on Saturday for a 103rd birthday party. It was quite a big event, even if it was just in a back garden – an excess of food and drink, a bluegrass band playing on […]

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Olympics serendipity #2

July 29th, 2012 · Comments Off on Olympics serendipity #2 · Life

During the week I have been working my was through the box set of season 2 of Doctor Who, the first David Tennant season. I think that any nerds reading will know where this is going! Today I watched the episode which was set in 2012 (Fear Her), where the Doctor and Rose arrive in […]

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Olympics serendipity #1

July 29th, 2012 · Comments Off on Olympics serendipity #1 · Life

This week I have been reading Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski. It is a reprint of Why England Lose, with some revisions and updating and a title change to make it sound a bit more like the very successful Freakonomics book. It is a good read, covering all sorts of aspects of football […]

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