Bah. 
2018 to Russia. 2022 to Qatar.

Not really horrible decisions, though it will be interesting to see how the games go off in a seriously Islamic country. I wonder how much the U.S.'s hostility towards travelers influenced the decision?

Mostly I'm just disappointed that for both of those years I'll be having to get up at 4am to watch the games. ( Read more... )

(see also: http://cyberduck.livejournal.com/378273.html)

I wanted to thank everyone that was able/willing to chip or at least stopped to check these guys out. It was a huge turn out this year. It looks like, when all is said and done, even given the current economic/employment situation, they'll have cleared $200,000 (USD) this year for the Child's ( Read more... )

Nothing but North American soccer chatter below. You were warned.

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 "Remember, you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to the others."

(http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0760.html)

Please! Donate if you can. These guys run an awesome fund raiser to a pretty awesome charity.

Desert Bus For Hope

Seriously, these guys rock my interwebz.

(added bonus: for my Seattle/Vancouver peeps - these are local folk. Support 'em!)

(edit: better link)

 I'm very pleased to live in a country with a representative form of government, but sweet mother o' pearl...I cannot wait for the non-stop, omni-present political ads to end.

(but still, just in case you haven't, please go vote)

...I find myself disgusted by how many positions on this seasons ballot are running unopposed. I may have to start plugging some write-in options. Who's with me? Sigi Schmid for King County Prosecuting Attorney!! He's an experienced leader and a solid judge of character, if you ignore that little hiccup with crazy-swede Ljungberg and his ( Read more... )

 So back here I talked about some bulk online storage options for the purposes of backing up important files. I found another option that I thought was worth noting here:

Google offers a variety of fairly purpose-specific storage options (picasa for photos, gmail for email, etc). Most of these services come with very large storage limits. Gmail's up ( Read more... )

 was going to make a nice, what-have-i-been-up-to, not-about-soccer post tonight.

Instead. I'm just going lie down and hope this head ache goes away or I work up the courage to eat my gun and end the pain.

btw- sounders won 1-0. :) 

Yeah, yeah, my LJ is all soccer these days. I'll try and fix that later, but for now, I thought this was interesting for my DCU buddies.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bs-sp-soccer-stadium-0729-20100729,0,7771113.story

Short version: DC's stadium is in bad shape. Baltimore might be a source of a solution.