Stupid Lady Suing Google 'Cause She's Stupid

Frivolous lawsuits make the world go round, and just in case you forgot that there's someone here to remind you.  Ya see...Lauren Rosenberg got some walking directions from Google Maps which she followed blindly, regardless of how ridiculous they seemed.  So blindly, in fact, she wound up getting run over by a car in an attempt to walk across a traffic-heavy highway.  She feels the error (Google's, not hers) should net her $100,000.  Let's see if the judge agrees. 

Lost: The End

A month or so ago, I wrote an article on "Lost" and whether or not it was the best TV show ever.  My decision on that issue hinged on how they handled the ending of the series.  Close to a week later, I'm still wrestling with my overall feelings regarding the finale and, on a larger scale, the final season altogether.  First I will address the final episode on it's on than I will address it's place in the overall continuity of the show.

The LeBron James Broo-hah-hah

Today, there will be two types of people.  There will be those who look at LeBron James and say he’s the most overrated NBA player in history, he’ll never win a title, he’s no good in the playoffs, and things of that nature.  Then there will be those who look at LeBron and give him a pass for his play in this series against the Celtics, blame the series lost on his teammates who never showed up, say he’s still the King even without a championship, and so forth and so on.  I’m gonna do my best to fall into NEITHER category as I try and make sense of what happened to the Cavs in the playoffs the last two years. 

Even a person with a casual, passing knowledge of the NBA would be able to safely assume that the team with the league’s best record two years straight and the league’s best player would be able to legitimately contend for the NBA championship.  It’s usually the way sports works.  Yea there are flukes and upsets every now and again but these things usually play out, at least in part, how we expect them to.  Even if the Cavs were unable to win it all this year, we’d at least expect them to MAKE it to the finals, or go down swinging in a classic battle to the death.  Instead we saw the entire team standing around watching Rondo dribble the ball at half court with nearly a minute left and only a nine point deficit.  Reggie Miller once scored 9 points in 8 seconds, and an entire team of NBA level talent couldn’t muster up the heart to keep fighting away at a nine point lead with a minute left?  THAT’S what disgusts me the most.  THAT’S what tells me Mike Brown should be fired (immediately, yesterday, etc), and THAT’S what worries me about LeBron.  I despise any comparison to Michael Jordan because he’s out of this world and there will never be another, but Jordan had what I’d call the killer instinct.  He will single handedly carry his team to the finish line.  Whether or not he made it there before the opponent would remain to be seen, but he wouldn’t give up.  Kobe, to some degree, is the same.  Putting up amazing stats is only half the battle.  You DO have to win the games, after all.  In the final quarter, LeBron played poorly (which I have no issues with), but he also played as if he was unconcerned with the outcome.  Especially in the last handful of possessions.  And it says a lot about the rest of his team that they all joined him in his disinterest.  You’re the league’s best team.  The league’s most popular team aside from the Lakers.  You’re the team EVERYONE wants to see make it to the finals.  But you couldn’t even fight to make that happen.  That’s worse than ANY criticism that can ever be heaped upon LeBron as a superstar who didn’t quite make it to the mountain top.  He has more years to try and make that happen (and I’m certain he will, at least once).  The Cavs may never be as good as they’ve been the last two years.  We rarely see “Dynasties” in sports the likes of the 70’s Lakers or 90’s Bulls anymore.  Cavs were almost there, but this season’s disappointment all but assures this era is through for the team.  Even if LeBron stays, most of his (sometimes) talented cast of co-stars will be gone.  It’s a shame, because even as a Knick fan, they were my favorite team to watch. 

X-Men 3 Fuckin' Sucked

FX is airing "X3: The Last Stand".  I haven't seen this movie since it came out all those years ago.  I'm such a huge X-Men fan that I think I tried to convince myself that this movie was great.  Looking at it after the fact makes me realize how far this is from the case is.  I'm not gonna get into how they butchered the history of the characters.  I'll just point out the other reasons it sucked.

Better Marriage Blanket (!!!!)

Unbelievable!

Twitter For Android Review

So Twitter has developed and released an official app for the Android platform.  I currently have 4 twitter apps installed on my Droid (overkill? perhaps).  There are aspects of all four that I like, but Twitter's official app will likely become my favorite for a few reasons.

The UI is gorgeous, obviously modeled after the twitter website.  On top of that, the app ties itself into the Android OS seamlessly by adding twitter info to existing contacts, using locations to place tweets on Google map layers, and much more.  Due to it's infancy, it's missing some features I've come to heavily rely on (jump to top, reply to all, auto refresh to name a few), But I've no doubt future updates will fix that.  I love Twidroid Pro but this is shaping up to be my go-to twitter app.  Thx Guise!