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We are up at Cape Cod, in a beautiful location overlooking Lewis Bay. Click here for more pictures of all the extended family enjoying their vacation.

As you can see there have been major changes here at patience.org. Thanks to Eliot and Movable Type for the tools that made it possible.

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Miles, Fire Island
Saturday July 13 2002

Here are some more pictures of Miles

Good to have Terry Venables back in the game, especially when he can come up with quotes like this just one day into his new job at Leeds: “Footballers should not drink to excess and now he’s [Leeds midfielder Lee Bowyer] in the last-chance saloon.”

A pretty accurate summary today in the NY Times of the televisual dross served up by Disney’s three channels during the World Cup: ABC, ESPN and ESPN2, which, as the article pointed out did not actually pay for the rights, that was paid for by Major League Soccer, which then sold the ads to offset the cost – an admirably bold gamble on its part.

The one thing I would add that increased the annoyance level and drove many English speakers to watch in Spanish on Univision was the commentator’s obsession withy “yardage,” as in “Beckham hits a 60-yard pass,” or “the ball goes 50 feet in the air,” or “he hit that shot from fully 38 yards,” which I heard on Sunday and made me wonder how he’d measured it.

Still, at least we’ve lost the “Red Zone” that was had forced down our throats by ESPN four years ago, indicating, NFL-style the final 20 or so yards of the field.

How else could people be expected to understand football unless it was compared with, er, football, as it were?

How can that compare with “Il Capitan – Spicy Beckham!” that was heard on Univision. It can’t, that’s how.

Well it was the right result in the end, at least as far as my bookie account is concerned. Yahoo has a fine collection of photos depicting various people’s reaction to the Brazilian victory over Germany.

From this young German chap, who appears to be being commiserated by German police officers under a table, to these two, who demonstrate that second only to football in its power to unite the world, is a shared interest in exposing your navel.

Yahoo for some reason chose to depict on the front of their World Cup coverage as typical of those who watch football. I would wager that somewhere in between is more typical – a bit like these blokes.