You don’t see 20-20 games every day, and without his 20-20, the Lakers might not have gotten to win tonight in overtime.
Odom is probably the most underrated rebounder in league. He puts up such gaudy numbers sometimes…
Relatively, the United States has more obese people than any other country in the world, and per capita Mexico is second on the world obesity list. Diabetes is now the leading killer.
These weren’t always true of Mexico, but now they are. Why? NAFTA created wealth, a rising tide lifted all boats, and now Mexicans are ever more likely to be able to buy the food they need, plus the food they want, so much so that they can eat too much.
The human body is made to withstand food shortages. Perpetually having enough food will always create obesity. Weight is a sign of prosperity, and I for one am glad that NAFTA could help Mexico as much as it helped the USA.
Compared with the disappointment of Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Brothers Brawl is looking very good. Got Sonic today. He might replace Pikachu as my favorite, though probably not. He’s very fast, and his spin attacks can be tough to control. The speed and good jumping are tempting though.
So many parts of the game are improved from Melee, just so many. Of course the controls still stink for the jumping around stages, but we already knew that.
After a while I’m probably going to start mixing Metroid into my Wii playing time, alongside SSBB and Super Mario World (person who sold me the Wii bought it, and since I have the Classic Controller now, I’m playing it. Blew right through Special world before finishing the Green Switch Palace or Donut Plains 3).
Here is the proccess for opening up prgramming docs in a browser window in Tiger with Desktop Manager:
- Click Firefox icon in Dock
- Hit Cmd-N
- Hit bookmark
- Move and resize to taste
I could do that in a few seconds, it was glorious. Contrast with Leopard with Spaces:
- Click Firefox icon in Dock
- Wait for animation as desktop switches from Space 1 (my terminal and Vim windows) to 8 (my Firefox news, comics, and other reading).
- Hit Cmd-N
- Hit F13 for Spaces
- Wait for animation
- Navigate pointer precisely to the Firefox window I created, drag it precisely to desktop #1
- Click Space 1
- Wait for animation
- Hit bookmark
- Move and resize to taste
I hate Spaces.
The whole reason I have two monitors is to have code on one screen and docs on the other. But Apple’s retards prevent me from having Firefox browser windows on more than one desktop.
Leopard is the worst thing I ever put on my computer.
Leopard does two horrible things: First off, they broke Desktop Manager. Secondly, Spaces is a piece of garbage. It’s so utterly retarded as to be useless, because it’s designed around the pointless and even harmful concept of assigning applications to spacess instead of windows.
With all the vastly superior virtual desktop software out for the Mac, how could Appl foul this up so badly? Such incompetence. And then also to break Desktop Manager? Maddening.
I don’t know what I’m going to do. Leopard just crippled my productivity. Crippled it. Leopard is the worst thing I ever installed on my computer.
Directly cross-posted from RS without editing, because this update makes no sense without that context
Elaborating on an earlier Redhot, a reader sent in this translation of The Divided States of America, a Turkish site dedicated to readers carving up our country to make a point.
Read on for the text…
“DIVIDED USA MAPS CONTINUE TO COME”
(Stuff in English)
Respected reader,
“Divided USA Maps” continue to come from those of you who were interested in our “USA In Our Hearts” invitation that we began to broadcast from our site in August. We present for your attention all of the maps received from the date of March 28, 2007.
Some of these maps are witty, others are based on historical and sociological realities; they all stand up as precious examples that exhibit the witty understanding and talent for strategic reasoning of the Turkish Nation.
Below you can find that we have chosen for you some of the maps we have received up to the present moment.
The goals are listed below; if the homeland of the Turkish Nation is only on paper, we will continue to spread and draw “Divided USA” maps that remind those with the audacity to redraw us that their own ground is just as slippery.
1) To answer with gusto to the USA based attack at least in the psychological dimension: (not sure about “kısacası nefs-i müdafaa”)
2) It is by force that the USA and its partners ally themselves against the nations of the world; to insert into the well of knowledge of the Turkish People and the Nations of the World how the nations of the world will be able to edit anew a situation that they can use to their advantage: in short, to encourage a creative geopolitical thinking. 3) With a conference that will be organized on this subject; to put on the table as an academic subject the process and dynamics of dividing the USA: in short, applying the Wilson doctrine to the USA in the academic sense.
4) To plant as a seed of thought in the brains of the people of the USA how the geopgraphy of the fascist police state of the USA will be rearranged in a more democratic and just form for the subaltern peoples that comprise it; in short, to contribute to the coming of democracy to the USA!
As a comrade in this effort you can be of help by:
a) Spreading this website (Turkish and English versions) to as many addresses as possible
b) By personally taking a pen to paper, drawing yourself maps of the USA in our hearts, and sending them to us along with the rationale (submission address: bilgi@acikistihbarat.com)
c) Translating languages other than Turkish and English
To the name of the country that we are resolved in defending until the death;
It is with hope that we set out together on the struggle that we perform until our last thoughts.
Thank you AaronVB for the translation!
The specific reason I finished off Super Paper Mario last night? Today I picked up a Wii Classic Controller and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. So far I’m impressed. I like the graphics quite a bit. I like being able to use the classic controller, even though it’s an adjustment from playing SSBM on my brother’s Game Cube from time to time.
Also I have Metroid Corruption 3 sitting on the shelf. Not because it looks bad (I enjoyed the bit I played back in January), but it just got lost in the queue. Heh, all that time spent on Phantom Brave (No, I think I’ll never get around to beating Pringer X) really threw things off.
I had a specific reason to, so I finished off Super Paper Mario last night. I still have some post-endgame things to look at (like the 100 battles of World 6), but I feel confident enough to make a verdict on the overall game.
Plot: wonderful. Honestly, I’d have gotten bored of the game if not for the plot. No spoilers, but it’s interesting. Very un-Mario-like, I think. But that comes at a cost.
I picked up the game because I was under the impression that it’s part Mario action, and part RPG. It is, but both parts are mediocre. The RPG part is dull and mechanical, and the action part is way too easy to be worth anything.
Best parts of the game: the plot and mini-arcade. Can I recommend the game, therefore? No, not really. Enjoyable, but there are better games out there.
Representative Ron Paul, Republican nominee for Congress in Texas district 14, believes there is a ‘New Right’ conspiracy against him in the GOP.
Despite the fact that he shifted effort from his Presidential campaign to ensure he beat the mainstream Republican, Chris Peden, in the Texas 14 primary, and that he still has neither endorsed John McCain for President nor even acknowledged that he needs to work with McCain to ensure Republican victory in November, Paul thinks the burden is on the party to come to him.
Says the Washington Times:
The Texas congressman says neither he nor his supporters have heard from Mr. McCain or Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan since March 4, when the Arizona senator accumulated enough delegates to clinch the party’s presidential nomination.
“I don’t think they want them,” Mr. Paul told The Washington Times, adding that indifference doesn’t surprise him because the party’s establishment has deserted traditional conservative principles for big government and foreign intervention.
“We don’t agree with them,” he says. “We agree with the Old Right, and they’re the New Right, which is ‘The Wrong,’ [because] the New Right has morphed into neoconservative.”
Look, Congressman, it’s very simple: You have sold yourself as a Republican to the voters in your home district. They believed it, but the rest of us are not bound to do the same. After all your outlandish rhetoric this campaign season, the burden is on you to prove that you are back in the fold by endorsing John McCain for President. Just take that one step, and that will prove we can work with you.
Had you won the Republican nomination, surely anyone who failed to back you would have been relegated to Republican in Name Only status, and been held up for mockery and attack. The time has come for you to hold up your end of the deal and avoid that fate. Nobody will ask you to campaign for Senator McCain, though it would be nice of you to do some outreach to your supporters. Just ask your supporters to vote for him, though, in one simple, unambiguous statement. I have no connections inside the national GOP, but I have to believe that is all anyone wants.