Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 10:31 Restores Metropolis streams live today! 2:15PM ET, 11:15 AM PT #
• 10:32 Restored Metropolis streams live today! 2:15PM ET, 11:15AM PT tinyurl.com/yf6rjf6 #
• 11:18 I'm not getting any work done, as this is turning into streamhacking Friday. tinyurl.com/yf6rjf6 #
• 12:59 Call me streamhacker! I am recording streaming internet video to my hard drive, and will do so this afternoon for certain European streams! #
• 13:43 DAMN!! The french stream won't play fullscreen and the german stream won't play in the US!!!! I'll take what I can get. #
• 13:45 whew! the french stream just went fullscreen. no sound, though #
• 14:53 Well, this is a pretty big let-down. liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=821&admin=false&mode=prod&priority=one&embed=true #
• 15:09 Metropolis crowd is thinning out. liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=821&admin=false&mode=prod&priority=one&embed=true #
• 15:28 teeny tiny metropolis is hurting my eyes liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=821&admin=false&mode=prod&priority=one&embed=true #
• 15:30 Oh, that's a good idea -- move the camera even further back, Dieter, vb.ly/metropolis #
• 15:44 Watching a few freezing Germans watch Metropolis in the snow. Crowd down to almost nothing now. vb.ly/metropolis #
• 15:58 I hoped maybe a European proxy server might have access to the "real" Metropolis feed, but no such luck. #
• 16:12 Berliners are proud of their cultural heritage, but not when it comes to standing still for three hours at -1C vb.ly/metropolis #
• 17:19 And it is over. From what I could see on the tiny screen, I didn't notice any huge chunks of new footage. They must be spread out. #
• 20:04 Bob Costas is the new Dick Clark: he hasn't aged a day in 20 years. #
• 22:26 In this vast celebration of Canadianness, where is Shatner? #
• 22:46 Is THIS the source of that great Canadian musical, "Fiddler on the Canoe"? #
• 22:50 Canadian Catholic Schoolgirls with fiddles. Be still my heart. #
• 22:53 This whole show is Canada's way of saying "We're good enough, we're smart enough, and doggone it, people like us!" #
• 23:00 Spending th e evening going "Wow, i didn't know s/he was Canadian." #
• 23:27 You'd hope when Rogge uses a French phrase, he'll pronounce it right. #
• 23:38 The only possible way they can end this is with Shatner. #
• 23:45 Olympia has the worst national anthem in the world. #
• 23:46 Julie Payette is my imaginary Canadian astronaut girlfriend #
• 23:47 who brought a baby to the opening ceremonies????????????????? #
• 23:54 the torches look like joints #
• 23:59 vamp the music vamp! #
• 00:01 no shatner. boooo. #