Lakers 99, Magic 91 in OT

A nice 3-1 series lead lets me breathe a little easier. Make no mistake, it's possible that Orlando could win 3 in a row, 2 of them in LA, but it's not likely. So happy times are here for me. Fish stuck a couple of 3 point daggers into the Magic just to make sure the corpse didn't get up like Jason at the end of a Friday the 13th movie. In particular I want to note a couple of things. Apparently Alonzo Mourning made a comment about Kobe being more of a coach than Phil Jackson, which is patently ridiculous. The man has 9 NBA titles. Tied with Red Auerbach for most ever, and he's about to become the only coach in history with 10.

But what really sets that up is the last play in regulation, where down 3 points the Lake show opted to bring the ball down full court instead of from the midcourt line. At the time the commentators were out of their minds with "What are they doing?" style comments. But here's the genius of Phil Jackson. It looks for all the world like he drew that play up with precision accuracy, because a couple of nifty down court passes left Fish almost all alone to take that 3 pointer. This is the genius of Phil Jackson. He not only lulled the Magic into double teaming Kobe at the far end of the floor (because of course they expected him to take that last shot), but it kept so many Magic defenders all over the court trying to defend that Fisher had very little defense to contend with to hit the shot. Both tactics, not having Kobe take the shot, and spreading the floor by taking the ball out full court instead of midcourt, worked to perfection. That's why Phil is about to have a ring on both thumbs.

Now this guy knows how to light a cigarette and look cool doing it.

You want bizarre? Ok, how's this for bizarre. The Farrelly Brothers (Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, and Me, Myself & Irene) are making a 3 Stooges movie. Couple of things; first, there have been a few 3 Stooges movies in the past few years, biopics, you know, the story of the 3 stooges and how they got together and the Shemp and Curly Joe and whatnot. But apparently this is not what's happening.
The Farrely brothers are shooting a movie that's just a 3 Stooges movie. Like a movie the 3 Stooges used to make in the 30's. That's a neat premise, and I'm sort of interested. But what really just makes the whole thing take a left turn is the cast.
How bout this for your Moe Howard? Che Guevara is Moe? That's weird right? Well, how bout this for your Larry Fine? Oh, that's right. Larry Fine requires powerful acting! And don't forget the last guy. Who's gonna shave their head to be Curly? You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. I'm not crazy, right? That's just ridiculous.

New Look (Again)

I thought since the Lakers won the title I'd go ahead and give myself a new color scheme to reflect how awesome that is, so i threw some purple and yellow in here, and well, you know. Except for that big green title thingy (cause I'm the toad, right? No. It's because it won't let me change it for some reason.)

Anyway, there's some random trash I wanted to post coming up, and then, you know, i'll just bail from here and go back to whatever it is i should be doing instead of this.

Very cool video for AION, a Korean game coming out from an old company I used to work for.

Creepy pics of Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Yay Zombies!

Lakers 104, Magic 108

Lakers lose game 3. Oh well. That was the game that I was willing to just let go anyway. I figured the Magic had one in em. In particular I'm impressed that the Lakers actually managed to play all the way through to the end. They've had a bad tendency to win the first 2 games of a series and then just take game 3 off and lose by 30. At least this time they played it through to the end.

Though, now I'm wondering if they were all in the locker room after going "We lost anyway! We could have taken the game off!"

Anyhoo. 43 inch curved monitor you say? Yeah, I'd like one of those, please, ok, thanks. Don't let the $8000 dollar price tag deter you. Though some people who actually saw these in action say there are giant lines on the screen like they just glued 4 monitors together. So there is that.

This movie looks totally cool. And I can imagine this being the future of the world.

I really should invest in some nerdier bookshelves. Or, failing that, maybe I should just build myself a rocket launcher. (Thanks to Kai for the link.)

Now THIS is how you simulate a rain storm. Oh, and then they do Africa by Toto. Sweet.

I never heard of Jimmy Car before, but after seeing this bit, where he deals with a heckler in his crowd, I may have to go find some more of his work.

If you gave Japan an unlimited amount of money and technology what do you think their army would look like? Yeah, I think they'd just do this.

Lakers 100, Magic 75.

Lakers win by 25. Anthony said, "The first quarter was interesting, but then it got boring." But as Eli and I and any other Laker fan can tell you, the first quarter sucked and then it got good. Three more games of that please and then Allison can spend the summer in peace. On to some linksies.

Nerdiest. Tattoos. Ever.

Toy Story 3. It's never going to end is it?

Travis needs this for our game night.

Listen, here's my argument. I know GI Joe is dumb. It's always been dumb. They have dumb names, they appear to be part of no known military organization, they wear stupid outfits, for God's sake one guy has a parrot. But there's a level of dumb that they've sort of hit and stayed at. And now there's a movie, and beyond all reasonable comprehension whoever wrote and put this movie together grabbed a shovel, broke some ground and said, "I believe I can make this dumber." Well played sir, you've found a way to drill through the bottom of the barrel.

The world's most pointless machine.

Holy. Moly. Best visual illusion of the year winner. Freaky and awesome all wrapped up together. It's Freawesome.

Wish I'd found this on Mother's Day. What happens when siblings try to do something together for mom.

How to keep your cat off the counter.

Lots of videos, for some reason.

Human Target. Awesome. I'll totally watch that. (Assuming I remember it's coming on.)

Remember V? It's back.

Yip-Yip. This used to be one of my favorite things on Sesame Street. And this is cool too. Also, the muppets may have actually been the birth of rap music. And because it's funny, the three worst possible muppets to sing Danny Boy sing...well, Danny Boy.

Imagine you have limitless money. Ok, now, where would you travel to? Close your eyes and think about it...did you pick this place? Cause according to this article, that's what the majority of people surveyed picked.

This guy knows how to flip.

I have no idea what the point of this is, but I ran around it for 10 minutes.

Greed is good. But it'll get you killed in this game.

Fascinating look into people's lives based on what's in their refrigerator.

I like Minus. It's just a silly little comic.

Aerial Virtual Tours of New York.

I'm posting, I don't care if you're reading or not anymore.

I feel it is my designated duty to bring you cool looking game trailers, so in that vein "Project Trico". Which surely someone will later point out to me isn't a game or something, but I don't know, it looks cool.

Oh, it's also my designated duty to bring you movies about video games that look ridiculous. Case in point. Come on Gerard, you were great in 300. Make something decent!

What do the robots want in Terminator? Just to kill all humans? Then what? All they do is build better robots for killing humans. What happens if they kill all the humans? They make better robots to not kill humans? They start on some other species? I think we should make a terminator movie where it's 100 years in the future and all the humans are dead and now Skynet just hunts and kills sharks. I'd watch that.

Even though Lorenzo Llamas is in this movie, I'm still gonna watch it. I'll probably own it on DVD at some point.

The first two pictures from the Avatar: The Last Airbender movie are out here. I assume that's supposed to be Zuko and Ang, who look like this. So, that's not bad, right? Considering it's directed by M. Night Shamalamadingdong and his last movie was about trees that hated people I call this one a win.

Sherlock Holmes. Yes. A good one. Possibly. It's been too long.

Best world design tools ever. And this video made me tear up a little.

Music in the movies can be very important. Here's some examples of how using the wrong music can totally ruin the mood. The Close Encounters one got me.

The Muppets own the internet. That is all. (Slightly NSFW lyrics).

I always need new sunglasses. I would like these.

Maybe you shouldn't buy that.

Procedurally generated cityscapes. Very cool even if you don't know what that means.

Sherlock Holmes. That is all.