Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts

15 August 2008

Alternate olympics

Every Olympics, I think about some of the things I’d like to see in a similar event.

  • No sports that involve a panel of judges choosing scores
  • No sports that require gear
  • Any victory by a margin less than human reaction time is considered a tie
  • No anti-doping rules

11 August 2008

Olympic pronunciation trivia

The J in “Beijing” is actually pronounced more like the normal English pronunciation of J rather than “zh”. Not that it matters.