I'm heading off to the Tour de Comic-Con. Tonight is the prologue. I expect big crowds and mad dashes across the convention floor, but the shorter day today should keep plenty of energy in the legs for tomorrow.
This means: no more Tour de France updates until Sunday night. (some of my regular readers may celebrate).
As you might have read in the Tour de Comic-Con entry, I am going to do my best to maintain radio silence while away. I may allow myself some Internet time, but I will need the help of my teammates to screen for spoilers. The Tour de France is simply too big nowadays that even political sites like Daily Kos have updates. A lotta newsstands may have to be kicked to the ground and there may be some heroic dives to cover my eyes/ears, but I think my teammates are up to the task :).
I redeemed my prognostication skills picking Vino today, so I can leave now pretending that I know what I'm doing. I'll undo my success by attempting to pick the upcoming stages for which I'll be away: I expect to see Armstrong win a stage either Saturday or Sunday, and eventually Basso is going to have to earn his team leader title. Basso's never broken Armstrong, but he might be able to jump off Armstrong's wheel on one of those stages for a win. Those will be stages where the overall contenders show themselves, even if Armstrong looks to have this one sewn up. Rasmussen will probably need some time if he wants to finish on the podium, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him winning one of those weekend stages. If Voigt has anything left in the tank, which he might not, he could go for a win Thursday or Friday. Either way, I expect to see a CSC break in the next two days (possibly with Sorensam if Voigt can't) as they have been notably silent since winning the yellow jersey for a day. I also hope for Horner to finally leave his mark as Valverde did, but of the two Valverde seems more likely.
LazyWeb Request: I need an anti-spoiler newsreader, i.e. I need a feature that filters any news story that mentions "Armstrong, Tour, cycling, yellow jersey, etc..." and buffers those away for another day.
Comments (2)
A little greasemonkey should do it, something like: (no guarantees on functionality ;)
// ==UserScript==
// @name No Tour
// @description pop up an alert on any page containing Tour de France info
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==
Array badness = new Array('armstrong', 'tour', 'cycling', 'yellow jersey');
window.addEventListener(
'load',
function() {
var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML.toLower();
for (var i = 0; i = 0) {
alert("The goggles, they do nothing!");
return;
}
}
},
true);
Posted by Hogue | July 13, 2005 5:54 PM
Brilliant! I'll give it a shot.
Posted by kwc | July 13, 2005 11:35 PM