Sad geek moment

[threemonkeys]

So does anybody else out there download multiple different torrents for the same show and set them all off in a race to see which one downloads the fastest?

No, I didn't think so.

In my defence, it is more fun than watching the NZ cricket team.

Comments

[russellk.livejournal.com]

Stop picking on the poor NZ cricket team, you bully. You're probably too young to remember the good old days when we won virtually nothing :)

I remember once slagging off the cricketers to someone in a shop. He listened politely, then said 'I'm Ian Colquhoun. Look me up in your almanack. (He was one of the batsmen out for a duck when NZ made 26.) Then think what I would have given to have been in a winning team.'

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the slagging off is part and parcel of being a true NZ cricket supporter - at least as taught to me by my father. It is an elaborate form of masochism. I have been a dedicated follower of the team since the days when I could recite all their test wins and still have fingers left over as I counted them off.

As for "too young" - when I was born. NZ had only ever won one test.

[russellk.livejournal.com]

Heh - well, we South Islanders are notorious for having extra fingers ...

I was born in early 1961 and at that point NZ still only had one test win.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

The one-test-win window is quite a long one - from 1958 to 1962. I was born in '58.

That first win must have had a huge impact on the psyche of NZ cricket. I have a book published in '61 (New Zealand Cricketers by R T Brittenden) which has 50 essays covering a bunch of players. All the players in that test were in the book and their contribution to that win is covered in great detail in their respective entries. From the way it is written it is clear the author regards that as the most important event in NZ cricket.

[russellk.livejournal.com]

I have to confess to being a rabid cricket fan. Part of the fun is the NZ team's glorious inconsistency, so every win is a pleasant surprise and every loss can be accepted.

Though the centenary year (mid 1990s I think) was hard to take - we lost everything and didn't make the final of our only tri-series one day tournament.

Only one thing puzzles me. Why don't the selectors and coach ring me regularly to ask my opinion?

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I too await that call from Sir Richard or Braces.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Ack - I meant 1956 to 1962.