Intro to Rugby
During the global pandemic shutdown there were basically two live sports in the whole world: Formula 1 and New Zealand Rugby in the form of Super Rugby Aotearoa. I adopted both sports. Since then keeping up with F1 has gotten easier in the US, but Rugby mostly dissappeared from our sports media. So this year I picked up a subscription to Florugby and am back at it; however, it’s a little lonely since none of my friends are rugby fans. To help with that, I decided to collect some links for the uninitiated to help serve as a jumping in point for rugby and just in time for the 2023 Rugby World Cup! So here goes:
- Video: Rugby Explained for American Football Fans
- Video: Rugby 101: Rugby positions explained
- Rugby Dictionary
- Video: Nigel Owens’ Guide to Rugby Referee Signals
- This one’s a little more advanced, but once you’ve watched a couple matches it’s really helpful
- If you’re curious about Nigel Owens, this video is a treat.
- Squidge Rugby’s Youtube channel for good background and analysis of match tactics and strategy
- In the runup to the RWC 2023 Squidge is producing a video for each participating team which is a great way to get ready for the tournament.
Old Matches:
- 2021 Women’s Rugby World Cup Final: Black Ferns vs Red Roses
- 2000 All Blacks vs Wallabies
- There are just generally tons of old matches on Youtube
Other ways to watch:
- World Rugby just launched RugbyPass TV which is currently free and includes archive matches, rugby shows, and apparently some live matches too!
- As mentioned above, in the US Florugby carries tons of matches at many levels from all over the world
Things I like about rubgy:
- I mostly watch rugby union, but the little bit of rugby league I’ve watched was fun too!
- During that 2020 NZ Rugby season I adopted the Chiefs as my home team.
- In international rugby I pull for NZ and Wales
- The women’s game is at least as much fun as the men’s game.
- The mic’d-up referee- it helps with insight during penalties and other deliberations.
- Since most of what I watch is international in the Pacific or Europe, I enjoy weekend mornings with coffee and a contest.
Lemmy explorer
I’ve joined the u.fail Lemmy instance, and one immediate challenge, especially on a small instance, is finding communities on remote instances. I came across Lemmy Explorer, which has been great for helping find communities.
Game links
I’ve created a games page on the site to keep track of links to online games I enjoy.
Older Posts:
- FCS dome stirred some memories -
- A week with macOS Big Sur on M1 -
- clusterssh to tmux cluster -
- Which day of March 2020 is today? -
- oh my zsh -
- Moved the site to AWS Amplify Console -
- More Astro -
- First Astro Photo: Andromeda -
- Astrophotography: Yet Another Hobby is Born! -
- Repairing a Samsung front-loading dryer -
- Testing Wifi with netcat -
- Setup CQRLOG -
- Setup TQSL with existing config -
- Monitoring radio audio through the computer -
- Setup WSJT-X -
- Setup hamlib -
- A ham prepares for Linux -
- CodeCommit: private git repos in AWS Free Tier -
- JPC theme posted to github -
- Hugo taxonomy crosswalk -
- Using File::PID for long-running jobs -
- Moving to Hugo -
- The folding of time and blogs -
- A little better all the time -
- Last Weekend's Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk -
- Backyard Bokeh Fiesta! -
- Moto Smartphone In-Camera HDR: Color Saturation and Time Travel -
- Where Palm and Pine are Blowing; Where Southern Seas are Flowing... -
- Lake Alice Wildlife -
- Paper lamp as glowing orb -
- Preparing your camera to avoid condensation and lens fog. -
- A good place to start -
- Who is that guy? -
- First crack at HDR -
- The HDR Hole -
- How bees introduced themselves to me. -
- Strobist Lighting 102, Lesson 1.2 -
- Low cost fermentation cooler -
- PET care, or how not to scratch your Better Bottle -
- Nobody puts baby in a corner -
- Controlling a Canon EOS w/ your Android device: Setting up DSLR Controller -
- Strobist Lighting 102, Lesson 1.1 -
- Back to the Drawing Board: Brewing for Competition -
- Mead: the brew that launched a thousand ships -
- The blog is dead; long live the blog. -
- Step 1: Admit you have a problem. -
- Small Hopped Mead -
- Blackberry Mead - 2 ways -
- Dear Neighbors, -