OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Hi Folks, Just to announce that Rio won de bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. The first ever Olympic Games to be held on south america will be help on my state. So I think I will launch the bid for RioRevLive 2016, you can learn to code and join the Olympic festivities :-P Cheers and Live Your

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Phil Davis
Congratulations Andre! Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, Just to announce that Rio won de bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. The first ever Olympic Games to be held on south america will be help on my state. So I think I will launch the bid for RioRevLive 2016, you can learn to code and join the

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Andre Garzia wrote: Hi Folks, Just to announce that Rio won de bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. The first ever Olympic Games to be held on south america will be help on my state. So I think I will launch the bid for RioRevLive 2016, you can learn to code and join the Olympic festivities :-P

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Out of curiosity, won't that make the Summer games held in the Winter, since the southern hemisphere is the reverse of where they are normally held? Or was that taken into consideration as you would think it would have been? Otherwise, all those athletes in their shorts are going to freeze

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Brasil is a tropical country. what we in europe call summer is their temperature in winter (20-30 degrees celsius or so). If they'd do it in their geographical summer (nov-feb), they'd handicap all the european athletes with the 40+ temperatures and 99% humidity... On 2 Oct 2009, at 19:15,

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Andre Garzia
Our winter will not go below 20 celsius, it is never too cold in Rio. I am all about RunRev Coding Games I could organize that, there is a wonderful conference hotel near my place, 5 minutes from the beach of camboinhas, one of the best in my city. for those wanting to see one of our bid

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Jim Ault
Winter nights can be chilly, with the temperature dropping to around 15° C (around 70 F). Laugh if you live in a cold country, but the fact is that thermal comfort is completely relative. Wind and dampness could make you feel even colder, and the homes do not have a heating system. In

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Jim Ault
Very cool news.. congratulations! Maybe everyone will be learning Portuguese It will be great to see the impact on your economy. At least I will have a place to stay that is very cheap, eh? Good news for me... I don't know anyone in Chicago, Madrid, or Tokyo. Jim Ault Las Vegas What happens in

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Andre Garzia
hu handicaping the european athletes interesting thought... on the other hand, Brazilian athletes are often handicaped on the cold environments and that never stopped us, we even have a sled team and we have no snow, so I think the world will be fine. I think they will held it during a

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Mike Markkula
Super Great video! Mike On 10/2/09 10:22 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Our winter will not go below 20 celsius, it is never too cold in Rio. I am all about RunRev Coding Games I could organize that, there is a wonderful conference hotel near my place, 5 minutes from

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote: Out of curiosity, won't that make the Summer games held in the Winter, since the southern hemisphere is the reverse of where they are normally held? Or was that taken into consideration as you would think it would have

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: The 2000 Olympics were in Sydney, Australia and they were held in September, which is spring in the southern hemisphere while not being too far from summer for the northern athletes. I imagine the Rio games will be held at a similar time

Re: OT: Rio 2016

2009-10-02 Thread Jim Sims
On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Yay! I should open a hostel, we will have the Soccer World Cup here in 2014 and the Olympic Games on 2016, good time to invest in something Yes! Creative Brasilan Thinking! Maybe put that TV/Film school learning to us, start a new TV