While it doesn't affect me personally since I live on campus, a lot of students will be left in a lurch come Monday morning, with final exams and such. I've commuted during a TTC strike before, and the only viable way is taking a car by side streets, which isn't a viable option for many students.
:(
Friday, April 25, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Test Run
As exams draw inexorably closer and the open question as to what I will do with my summer pushes me into finding worthless tasks to perform, I thought I might as well figure out how this blogging thing works. Embedding Youtube videos seems like an excellent way to figure out the space and aesthetics of this. So anyway, I've embedded an excellent judo match between Huizinga and Daffreville at the Super World Cup Paris-Bercy. Inexplicably, it has the acronym "TIVP", which has no relation to the English name or the French name (Tournoi de Paris Ile-de-France Paris-Bercy). Furthermore, my normally excellent Google scholarship has yielded no relevant answers to keywords like "TIVP", "judo", "acronyme", and "èspece de bêtise".
Damn frogs.
The stand-up is fairly good, but the amazing bit is Huizinga's turnover (4:29) that was fairly exotic and unexpected. One of the announcers initially speculated that Huizinga was going for ude-garami, or the kimura armlock as it is known to some, but the arm entanglement looked more like Huizinga was going for ashi-gatame (a sort of armlock performed with one's legs) or sankaku-jime (triangle strangle). Instead, Huizinga makes fools of everyone by working some mysterious magic that turns Daffreville over and gets him into a pin (gyaku-kesa-gatame) for the 25 seconds needed for the win. I like this match not only because it was a brilliant piece of groundwork, but also because I so rarely see pins win matches. I would chalk this up to Huizinga's experience, or what I term "old-man sneaky judo". As an interesting aside, Huizinga qualified for Beijing, for what will probably be his last Olympics at age 37.
Anyway, back to stuffing my head with more molecular biology. Sigh.
Damn frogs.
The stand-up is fairly good, but the amazing bit is Huizinga's turnover (4:29) that was fairly exotic and unexpected. One of the announcers initially speculated that Huizinga was going for ude-garami, or the kimura armlock as it is known to some, but the arm entanglement looked more like Huizinga was going for ashi-gatame (a sort of armlock performed with one's legs) or sankaku-jime (triangle strangle). Instead, Huizinga makes fools of everyone by working some mysterious magic that turns Daffreville over and gets him into a pin (gyaku-kesa-gatame) for the 25 seconds needed for the win. I like this match not only because it was a brilliant piece of groundwork, but also because I so rarely see pins win matches. I would chalk this up to Huizinga's experience, or what I term "old-man sneaky judo". As an interesting aside, Huizinga qualified for Beijing, for what will probably be his last Olympics at age 37.
Anyway, back to stuffing my head with more molecular biology. Sigh.
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