Photos from SI.com: Bolt’s World Record Run
This race isn’t even close. He doesn’t even seem human. Amazing.
From Bengals.com: Henry returns
How hard is it to stay home and keep out of the way of trouble? We’ll find out, because the Chris Henry show is rolling into town again.
The bar for success is so incredibly low, that it seems like it should be a slam dunk for him to make it back. But, who knows.
As Forest Gump said – “Stupid is as stupid does”.
Here’s Michael Phelps wearing his 8 gold medals on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
There is no Mark Spitz post Olympics Sports Illustrated cover of him wearing his seven medals because of the attack on the Israeli athletes at the Munich games.
I had a black and white version of this picture earlier, but it didn’t capture the awesomeness of the ’70s like this picture does. Pornstache, gold chains, red, white, and blue swimwear. That pretty much sums up the whole decade.
Missed this interesting NYTimes article on Michael Phelps
He knew that prepubescent children can, through training, increase the size of their hearts and lungs in ways that are no longer possible later on. “The larger the heart and lungs,” he has noted, “the bigger the aerobic engine.” Beginning when Phelps was 12, he worked the swimmer seven days a week, guided by the assumption that competitors who rested on Sundays were at least one-seventh less conditioned. “Michael has a pretty easy life,” he would joke, “if you don’t count the five hours a day of torture I put him through.”
The commitment and work ethic to become Olympic champion is something that average person can not comprehend. That’s why we’re the average person.
From CNN.com: Still mired in debt, Clinton seeks cash
Days after the New York senator announced she would award one contributor a trip to the convention with her, husband Bill Clinton is out with another fundraising appeal Monday encouraging supporters to join the contest.
In an e-mail to potential donors Monday, the former president promised one contributor would have a memorable week with his wife, though he took care to reiterate Obama is the Democrat who the party will nominate for president.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to spend a week with Hillary.
Hillary’s inability to fundraise out of her debt shows how shallow and fleeting her support is from her so called 18 million supporters.
From NYTimes.com: Phelps Wants to Help Swimming Grow
The night before the medley relay, Hansen, who swam the breaststroke leg, stopped by Phelps’s room in the athletes’ village. Phelps’s seven gold medals were hanging from the curtain rod.
“It looked like a freaking wind chime,” Hansen said.
Still waiting for the obligatory Sports Illustrated cover with Michael Phelps wearing all eight gold medals at the same time. Until then, a picture of the gold medal wind chime would be pretty cool.
I’ve started upgrading my the software that runs my blog to Movable Type 4.2. Movable Type 4.2 adds aspects of social networking, so I’m kind of interested to see how it works. It’s supposed to also have easier templates which should make redesigning my blog a little easier.
I’m just going to apply the upgrade to the live site, so some things may be acting a little weird over the next several days.
From NYTimes.com: Clinton’s Name Will Be Put in Nomination
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name will be placed into nomination at the Democratic National Convention, a symbolic move approved by the Obama campaign in an effort to soothe a lingering rift with Clinton supporters.
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So how will Mrs. Clinton, who is a superdelegate herself, vote? Associates say she will throw her lot behind Mr. Obama and ask her supporters to follow suit. To see if it unfolds as the Obama campaign hopes – free of acrimony – tune in on Wednesday, Aug. 27.
I know that nothing will happen and this is all procedural, but something about this just makes me nervous. Very nervous. Is Hillary orchestrating hoping for an August surprise?
UPDATE:
Maureen Dowd’s OpEd NYTimes.com: Yes, She Can
Hillary’s orchestrating a play within the play in Denver. Just as Hamlet used the device to show that his stepfather murdered his father, Hillary will try to show the Democrats they chose the wrong savior.
Her former aide Howard Wolfson fanned the divisive flames Monday on ABC News, arguing that Hillary would have beaten Obama in Iowa and become the nominee if John Edwards’s affair had come out last year — an assertion contradicted by a University of Iowa survey showing that far more Edwards supporters had Obama as their second choice.
Hillary feels no guilt about encouraging her supporters to mess up Obama’s big moment, thus undermining his odds of beating John McCain and improving her odds of being the nominee in 2012.
From NYTimes.com: Behind the Opening Ceremony, a Paralyzing Fall
A talented, 26-year-old Chinese dancer was seriously injured during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic games just 12 days before the show, and faces the prospect of being paralyzed for the rest of her life.
Pretty sad story. As breathtaking as the opening ceremonies was, a lot of it seemed to be quite dangerous and I was wondering how they could do all that without someone getting hurt. Especially with all the wire work. The torch lighting with Li Ning “running” around the top of the stadium was amazing, but seemed a bit dangerous. I can’t imagine an American athlete being asked to do that.
From LATimes.com: Chinese fast-food chain Panda Express thrives on orange chicken
It is an empire largely built on the thighs of chickens — the dark meat.
When other fast-food chains started to offer white-meat chicken nuggets and sandwiches in the late 1980s, Panda Express figured out what to do with the rest of the chicken. And it has paid off.
The chain started using boneless and skinless dark meat cooked in a light flour batter to hold the moisture. Then it drizzled on top an orange sauce that Panda executive chef Andy Kao described as “a little sweet, a little sour and a little spicy.”
By 1991, it had become the chain’s biggest seller. Now, 4 out of 10 people who walk into Panda Express include orange chicken in their orders. Panda Express sells 45 million pounds of orange chicken annually.
Orange Chicken, fried rice, and an egg roll. That’s the ancient Chinese secret to healthy eating!