Posts Tagged ‘historic’

Pittsburgh – it is six

2009/02/01/2254

We watched this Super Bowl through BBC One. I must say that this was a fascinating experience, complete with Rod Woodson, a clueless British commentator who looked like a Liverpool hooker jonsin for heroin, and some other dude who seemed to know what he was talking about. Wow.

There will be a followup explaining how we watched the license-laden Super Bowl, commercial-free, from a UK proxy in, well, the UK. It should be noted that, in spite of the 10,000-mile round trip the signal had to take, we were still 5 seconds ahead of the US radio broadcast.

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It is six. Is there anything more to say?

Yes – it is six super bowls that have been own. I mean won. I mean pwned. Six.

One more thing: PITTSBURGH!!!

Poverty Point National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

2007/09/14/1426

RTFA: http://www.nps.gov/popo/

Poverty Point State Historic Site
Eight centuries after Egyptian slaves dragged huge stones across the desert to build the Great Pyramids, and before the great Mayan pyramids were constructed the Poverty Point inhabitants set for themselves an enormous task as they built a complex array of earthen mounds and ridges overlooking the Mississippi River flood plain in what is now northeastern Louisiana.

Yes. In Louisiana. Your civilization is completely unprecedented, suburban United States.