Next: Germany

Argentina 3, Mexico 1

Lucky Shot

Here's a photo taken in Chicago this weekend.  The photographer is getting his 15 minutes.

Admittedly Annoying Family Photo Collage

That grandparents may want as a desktop photo.

Downloadable here.

Those Funny Funny Airport Signs

I find that when flying internationally my discomfort level is directly proportional to the angle of the plane shown on the sign at the arrivals terminal. The steeper the incoming plane, the more worried I get. This sign at the Lima airport is one of the worst I've seen. Note that the wings seem to be ripping themselves right off the fuselage. The wheels are not even attached! And that's a damned short runway. I hope that's not my plane!

World Cup Commercials

Here they are. Those sappy and surprisingly not so funny World Cup commercials.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWe1xLbPRo&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClW3BIqX_Oo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuyZBol4yWw&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTXL4nfw8Jg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VWOAwOaoDI

Asilomar

While Robert stays in Argentina this winter to work, Mira spends time at a resort in sunny California.  Hmm.  What's wrong here?

http://www.visitasilomar.com/contact-us.aspx

World Cup

Argentina's first game in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is about to begin.  They play Nigeria.  It's very exciting to be outside the US during World Cup. Robert was in Italy in 1990 and Japan in 1998 (and in LA for the final in 1994).  He has little more than an anthropological interest in the event, but it reminds him that the "rest of the world" finds the World Cup to be extremely important.  Extremely.  Argentina has not won the World Cup for 24 years and Robert can tell you that it would be a tremendous uplift for the country if they did it this year, and a huge letdown if they don't do well. 

It's  fun to see so much of South Africa on television.

Anyway, Robert's lying low, watching the game on TV.  He does not want to be standing around when they start to beat up foreigners and burn cars!

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Winners	Score	Runners-up		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place

1930 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	4–2	Argentina	United States	[note 1]	Yugoslavia
1934 Details	Italy	Italy	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Czechoslovakia	Germany	3–2	Austria
1938 Details	France	Italy	4–2	Hungary	Brazil	4–2	Sweden
1950 Details	Brazil	Uruguay	[note 2]	Brazil	Sweden	[note 2]	Spain
1954 Details	Switzerland	West Germany	3–2	Hungary	Austria	3–1	Uruguay
1958 Details	Sweden	Brazil	5–2	Sweden	France	6–3	West Germany
1962 Details	Chile	Brazil	3–1	Czechoslovakia	Chile	1–0	Yugoslavia
1966 Details	England	England	4–2 (a.e.t.)	West Germany	Portugal	2–1	Soviet Union
1970 Details	Mexico	Brazil	4–1	Italy	West Germany	1–0	Uruguay
1974 Details	West Germany	West Germany	2–1	Netherlands	Poland	1–0	Brazil
1978 Details	Argentina	Argentina	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Brazil	2–1	Italy
1982 Details	Spain	Italy	3–1	West Germany	Poland	3–2	France
1986 Details	Mexico	Argentina	3–2	West Germany	France	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Belgium
1990 Details	Italy	West Germany	1–0	Argentina	Italy	2–1	England
1994 Details	United States	Brazil	0–0 (a.e.t.) (3–2 pens.)	Italy	Sweden	4–0	Bulgaria
1998 Details	France	France	3–0	Brazil	Croatia	2–1	Netherlands
2002 Details	Korea Republic & Japan	Brazil	2–0	Germany	Turkey	3–2	Korea Republic
2006 Details	Germany	Italy	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–3 pens.)	France	Germany	3–1	Portugal