Parking a car in a garage

Karim Benzema's Lamborghini

Real Madrid's Karim Benzema was out celebrating his birthday earlier this month on the island of La Reunion. At some point during the night, his car wound up crashed. Benzema may have been driving, or it may have been that his friend was driving while Benzema drove another car. There are suggestions that the two men may have been racing. For more information, click here. For a map to help you find La Reunion, see below.

For yet another video of people speaking French, watch the one below. Benzema is the guy in the tank top.

What is going on here?

Below are the results from today's Champions League group stage matches. There are no misprints as far as I can tell. At least two of these scores make no sense at all.

Tuesday October 20
20 Oct, 19:45	Liverpool1 - 2Olympique Lyon	Anfield, Liverpool
20 Oct, 19:45	Debrecen3 - 4Fiorentina	Ferenc Puskás-Stadion, Budapest
20 Oct, 19:45	FC Barcelona1 - 2Rubin Kazan	Camp Nou, Barcelona
20 Oct, 19:45	Internazionale2 - 2Dynamo Kyiv	Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan
20 Oct, 19:45	VfB Stuttgart1 - 3Sevilla FC	Mercedes-Benz-Arena, Stuttgart
20 Oct, 19:45	Rangers1 - 4Unirea Urziceni	Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow
20 Oct, 19:45	AZ Alkmaar1 - 1Arsenal	DSB Stadion, Alkmaar
20 Oct, 19:45	Olympiacos2 - 1Standard Liège	Stadio Karaiskaki, Piraeus

Can you tell which two?

Interesting junk e-mail #2

Once again, my cancelled subscription to a Brazilian petroleum industry on-line newsletter has generated an interesting junk e-mail.

What I have been listening to lately #24

The show is Solid Gold 1979. The song is "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac, and the USC marching band has come along just for fun.

What I have been reading lately #33

First things first: the rules of being a Warner by Kurt and Brenda Warner with Jennifer Schuchmann

Kurt Warner is an NFL quarterback who has been to the Super Bowl three times (with the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals). The story of his rise from grocery shelf stocker to Arena Football League player and finally to NFL star has been told and re-retold many, many times. He and his wife Brenda have seven children (five together and two from her previous marriage, including one who has brain-damage and blindness due to a childhood accident). Together, they have written a book describing how they balance his NFL career with their family life, all while giving back to the community and being good Christians.

Below: Kurt Warner gets ready to throw the football.

I finished reading this book a few days ago, and I have been thinking since then about what I wanted to say about it. Unfortunately, I have not been able to put my thoughts into words. Everything I try to write seems insincere and inadequate. If anyone else has read this book, please contact me. Maybe you can help.

Below: Kurt and Brenda Warner working on a Habitat-for-Humanity project.

Interesting junk e-mail #1

I once subscribed to a Brazilian petroleum industry on-line newsletter, and now I got unsolicited emails that have things like this in them:

What I have been watching lately #3

I just finished watching the movie Kelly's Heroes for the first time since I was a little kid. It features many of the most important twentieth-century American actors, including Telly Savalas, Stuart Margolin, Don Rickles, Gavin MacLeod, and Donald Sutherland. I do have the following questions, however:

• If they needed the combat engineers to build a bridge across the river, how did Kelly and his men get across the river before the engineers built the bridge?
• Why was the town completely deserted before and during the battle, but then afterwards all the people came out as if from nowhere?
• When the American soldier was ringing the church bell over and over again, why didn't any of the Germans go investigate?
• Has there ever been a movie that had so many tanks and other vehicles crashing through walls so many times?
• How did Kelly and his men get the stolen gold back to Allied lines, especially since they were driving in captured German vehicles?

Below-- the main soundtrack theme as performed by the Mike Curb Congregation.