Zen Arcade

700 Days

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:50:00 +0000

World Cup 2010 begins in 700 days in South Africa. 126 national teams still
have a chance to win one of the final 31 spots in the competition.

FUN FACT

South Africa is the world's 25th-largest country by area.

DID YOU KNOW?

Air France will fly you from many points American, through Paris, to
Johannesburg? Convenient if you know somebody in France!

STAGE 2

The second step of World Cup Qualifying for the U.S. is complete. The Men's
National Team defeated Barbados twice to move on to Stage 3, which begins in
August.

THEREFORE...

Next update in August!

Odds Payoff

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:14:00 +0000

If you picked "One Week" back in December, I owe you $11.

Future, Part I

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:58:00 +0000

Imaginary Early Kentucky Derby Pick: $4 on Atoned, available at 75-1 at the Wynn.

Thundercats are go

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:52:00 +0000

Two movies in four days. Be still my heart. Spent New Year's with the Vice President and the Racecar Driver, and since they live in the sticks, we went to see the fine independent feature Juno. Four thumbs up. I didn't even mind that we had to sit in the damn first row (Much.) But I'm a sucker for witty female writers with a thing for pop references (see Amy Sherman-Palladino).

Attend the tale

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:51:00 +0000

We've really slacked off the movie going lately. Ten dollar tickets might have something to do with it, as well as the fact that there hasn't been a whole lot I want to see. But Sweeney Todd I've been eagerly anticipating. I was hoping to see it over Christmas, but since the film was only released on about 1000 screens, it wasn't playing in St. Simons.

So once we got back, we made a plan to see it. Now the musical is hands down our favorite, so we went in with high expectations, I think. Setting aside the inferior voices and the abridged songs, the movie itself is visually stunning and entirely entertaining.

Bikeage

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:07:00 +0000

Today I reached my goal of bicycling to work for the year. I had hoped to bike two-thirds of the time, and I made it with no days to spare (I'm off on Monday, New Year's Eve). 232 days worked, 155 days biked = 66.8 percent. Total distance: 2480 miles.

2008 goal: 75 percent! Although realistically, I'll be happy with 70%.

How Long Till I Abandon This Blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:17:00 +0000

Odds of when I'll give up:

One Day: 24-1
One Week: 11-1
One Month: 2-1
Three Months: 4-1
Six Months: 5-1
One Year: 7-1
Three Years: 16-1
Never: 50-1