I just finished watching the lighting of the torch at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Wow. What a wait that was good show that was.

Some thoughts:
Bob Costas should not announce anything I ever watch again. He kept talking over the other announcers, who knew more than he did (or were perhaps passed better information), and he made more stupid jokes than they did.

Maybe if the cameras stayed in one place more often, we wouldn't need people like Bob Costas to interpret the interpretive numbers for us.

The skating was great. And the costumes they came up with for the snow and wind and buffalo bison were incredible. I am impressed.

I was not impressed with Shrub, or the political statement he made tonight. I can understand banning Afghanistan from the games, but acting all smiley during everyone's entrance except for Iran took away from the unity the games represent. In fact, his very presence took away from the unity of the games. Maybe he should have sent someone else in his stead.

When the torch was finally lit, after many interpretive numbers and a nice duet with Sting and Yo-Yo Ma, I was happy to see that it was a team that lit the cauldron. Can't get much cooler than that.

I'm sure I'll have much more to criticize about the games from here on in (except, of course, the part played by our guy Bryan). But I'll wait for another day to start in again.

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On a different note entirely, what does it mean that I come in #10 on this list of the top 25 meme producers? To my knowledge, I've never produced a meme. Until recently, I didn't even know what they were. Do I have a "propensity ... to find and curate powerful ideas"? Hmmm....