So far firefox 3 isn’t bothering me. The actually somewhat Mac-like look by default is helpful, and Sage Too, the Firefox 3 fork of Sage, shows authors.
Let’s just hope Firefox 3 actually lives up to the hype of avoiding massive memory leaks and lockups, without being crash-prone or anything like that.
I like the Lakers’ chances next year. Bynum will be back, so the sometimes-timid Gasol will be less of a loss when he gets pushed off his game as he was by the Celtics.
With Odom presumably moved to the 3 to make room, that will push Walton down the bench behind Radmanovic and Ariza, and create fewer cringe-inducing times as his minutes have tended to be for me.
So just showing up next year, the Lakers will be so much better. What need to really improve in the offseason, though, are the individual defenses of the younger Lakers. Vujacic is trying, but he’s not there yet. Farmar needs to really buckle down. Turiaf still needs to learn to defend without fouling; 20 years ago he could have been an enforcer, but the league doesn’t let that stuff happen anymore.
Wait until next year.
At least the day wasn’t a waste in that game. I did pick up Azelf, which was the last one I needed to get the National Pokedex. And once I got that, I was able to go get Ditto and start Dittoing a bunch of stuff, like Piplup, Infernape, Turtwig, that evolved scorpion whose name eludes me [edit: the name comes to me now, Drapion], Spiritomb, and Eevee.
That’s convenient.
First, the Celtics are whacking the Lakers with a critical hit to end the Finals.
So that’s fine, I mute Celtic cheerleader Mike Breen, blowhard Mark Jackson, and bitter old man Jeff Van Gundy, and just play some Pokemon Pearl while keeping an eye on the blowout. No problem right?
Wrong. Cynthia, down to her final Roserade during the Pokemon League championship game, whips out a critical hit at just the right time to knock out my Infernape and win, when otherwise I had it for sure as soon as I got off a Fire Blast.
This after repeatedly, repeatedly needing one measly critical earlier in the battle against Cynthia’s Garchomp, but of course never getting it, and so having that battle drag on forever, and put me in the position where one critical would waste all that time.
Blah. So I’m grumpy.
Though the Lakers certainly aren’t looking at it that way anymore. It’s one game at a time when you’re trying to complete a comeback from being down 3-1.
I feared this Boston defense for months. Sadly they’ve lived up to my fears.
Over at Next Right, Patrick Ruffini points out what’s been influencing the polls and which of those influences are going away:
So, we saw an initial round of polling showing Mitch McConnell trailing in Kentucky and Elizabeth Dole up within the margin in North Carolina and John Cornyn only up by 4 in Texas.
And today?
Dole leads by 14. Cornyn is up by 17. Gordon Smith, who has to be on anyone’s list of beatable Republican incumbents leads Jeff Merkley by 9 in Oregon, an Obama +8 state.
I’m not saying things aren’t tough, particularly in the Senate. But I would argue there is a chance for more of a “normal” year than a repeat wave, which would be an historical aberration.
Emphasis added.
Gee it was nice to watch a game with officiating that wasn’t horribly biased against my team. The Lakers actually shot free throws, and the MVP got to be the MVP!
Game 2 was the worst officiated Laker playoff game I’ve seen in years. I haven’t seen the Lakers get that many non-calls, while the opponents got lots of touch fouls, since Shaq was in purple and gold.
Losing on the road to Kevin Garnett making the plays isn’t the worst.
The most recent returns show bad news in the California primary election. Proposition 98, the Howard Jarvis property rights initiative, is losing while the pro-eminent-domain, fake reform Proposition 99 is winning.
So we’ll get a little protection, but not much. How disappointing.