WEDNESDAY 08/20

-Dick Ebersol came around in the morning handing out NBC pins.

-Funny things from around the IBC: sign over a bucket reading, “Please drop dead, batteries here.”

-Set up a Tumblog (a few of the RSS feeds I now read have opened my eyes to Web 2.0). Unfortunately I can’t access it from the restricted internet in my dorm.

-After work, I went by the set of the Today Show and watched for a bit.

-Then went to the Bird’s Nest and met up with Janique and Stacey to watch Usain Bolt win the Men’s 200m.

-After the race, Janique and I headed over to the Heineken House, a club that had been set up in the Beijing Agricultural Exhibition Center. It was actually more of a concert experience than a club, and hundreds of orange-clad Dutch thronged a floor beneath the stage where a band was playing. After a few minutes of that, we went outside and hung out with some other NBC folks until the club closed at around 2.