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This was simply amazing. For anyone who doesn’t already know, a historic match has just ended at Wimbledon. It started on Tuesday, was suspended as the evening fell, continued yesterday, was once again suspended as the evening fell, and finally finished today. John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut 6-4 3-6 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (7-3) 70-68, after […]

This isn’t working… I’m working on breath alone most likely, because I’m certainly not eating or drinking more than usual but hardly sleep. And it’s not even hot anymore, to say that’s the reason why. I just wake up in the morning after only one or two hours of sleep and have a very hard […]

I found myself wondering how many fans can someone have before becoming unable to have meaningful interaction with them. Started by thinking about musicians, remembering a bit of the interview the members of Nightwish gave before one of their concerts here, where they were saying that, even though it’s not a nice thing to do, […]

This year’s first heat wave is just ending and I’m taking the opportunity to bunch together several updates. All of them will be personal, but there frankly seems to be very little chance of me writing anything else during the World Cup, or at least during the group phase, seeing as I’m watching all matches […]

We’re only hours away from the start of very likely the strangest and riskiest World Cup edition in recent history. And I really don’t see how at least the first part of that statement, about the strangeness, could possibly be proven wrong. Unfortunately, I also don’t exactly see the second part, about the risk, being […]