YAY! THEY’RE HERE!!! The 2010 Winter Olympics

13 Feb 2010 11 Comments

by lamsmith0609 in News and politics

 

Vancouver, BC 2010

 

 

 

 

If you read my blog you know that I am a major fan of both the summer and winter olympics. You also know that if I have nothing else to say, I WILL come out of my shell to share with the world my view of the olympics. They are fabulous for me, and, unless you live under a rock, you know by now that last evening heralded in the beginning of the 2010 Winter Olympics held in beautiful Vancouver, BC.

 

Of course I am absolutely thrilled about this! And as everyone knows, it was not as visually spectacular as the Beijing opening ceremonies, nor was it expected to be. However, it was spectacular in its very own way and I loved every minute of it. The creative people behind the show did a fantastic job with the opening ceremony show.

 

One interesting thing I noticed was with some of the televised shots and the angle in which they showed off the city that the city reminded me of a mini-Hong Kong in some way. It had to do with the water and the ocean, and the sparkling sky-scrapers, and the islands and mountains in the background – it is so reminiscent of Hong Kong — it is so romantic looking!

 

I appreciate how they embraced all the different cultures of their area and showcased the different beauty associated with each of these cultures. IT WAS FABULOUS AND MOVING. And they did a great job with the shadowing and graphics to portray the many scenes they created for our viewing pleasure (the whales swimming across the arena WAS FANTASTIC).

 

The only thing I would have changed is this: I think that the snowboarder who flew into the stadium through the olympic rings on the snowboard should have been holding the olympic torch. He should have FLOWN through the rings with the torch and slid to the olympic cauldron and lit it that way.  It would have been way more spectacular than watching Wayne Gretzky stand there and cringe as he waited for the mal-functioning mechanism arm-thingy to not work. That is my only criticism of this event of last night.

 

 

Peeps, THIS was the most spectacular thing of the evening in my opinion. It was sooooo cool.

 

 

WELCOME 2010 Olympics!

I am happy to see you arrive!

 

I would be remiss to not mention the horrible death of Georgia luger, Nodar Kumaritashvili, age 21. It is a terribly sad thing and I was absolutely shocked that this happened. I read today that the luge track has been "tweaked" to slow it down. Evidentally, the panel of experts has moved the beginning of the luge lower down the course and shaved down a couple of the tighter curves to slow the course down a bit. Olympic Luge runs start today, and thus far the luge runs today have gone without incident. It is being reported that the trial runs are flawless.

 

The International Luge Federation and Vancouver Olympic Committee has just released the following statement regarding their findings about the accident and the lightening speed of the luge track. They say: "The International Luge Federation and Vancouver Olympic officials said their investigation showed that the crash was the result of human error and that “there was no indication that the accident was caused by deficiencies in the track.” Click HERE to open the entire article.

 

Olympic coverage starts today at 1:00 pm CST. So…. be there or be square.

 

Now for something completely different, and on a personal note with an on-going issue I am having: I have written to MSN customer support and am awaiting a reply as to why I cannot leave comments anywhere within any of our blogs (including my own). I can make a blog entry, I just cannot comment about it – and you know how I love to heckle myself! (And that there last comment would be the schizophrenic artist part of me speaking… but shhhh).

 

ANYHOO babies, take it easy. Try not to stress too badly about things in life we have zero control over in this life, and ENJOY THE OLYMPICS! I assure you, I will be.

 

Peace and Love, from Lori LAMS

 

Sat followup: I have received the following response from MSN customer service regarding not being able to leave comments. It reads thusly: Hello Lori, 

 

Thank you for writing to Windows Live Spaces Technical Support. My name is Zaida. I understand that it is frustrating that you are unable to publish comments anywhere on Windows Live Spaces. I am sorry for the inconvenience this has caused you.

 

Lori, the problem you are experiencing has already been identified as a known issue by our product team.  We would like to assure you that we are working hard to have this issue fixed soon in an upcoming release.

 

Thank you for your patience as we continue with our investigation.

 

Well, when will that be? Another 6 months? So there peeps it is… I just cannot comment until the new release of the new version is let out to us. You know, I’ve never really gotten all that accustomed to THIS VERSION… I don’t like this version, MSN.

 

OK… OLYMPICS ARE ON… GOTTA GO. I will probably be blogging as I watch.

 

Pfft. And they start with another airing of the "new" version of "We Are the World." Blah.    The "new" version totally sucks.  DON’T TOY WITH PERFECTION. People are so uncreative these days it MAKES ME SICK! I do appreciate their efforts for Haiti however. The song just does not flow as well this time… there’s too many combining of different sounds and styles to be any good.

 

LAMS