JuCo My Ass

Lionel Hollins is many things, but an NBA head coach he is not. Sure he's in the Junior College Basketball Hall of Fame, but so the fuck what? After repeatedly watching him get blatantly out-coached, it was interesting watching Mike Fratello tell his team exactly how ball games are won tonight as the Griz spanked the one-trick pony Sixers. I was right about Fratello being the perfect fit for this team. Of course, it helped that Pau Gasol had a monter game, with 34, 15, and 3 blocks. The Sixers had absolutely no answer for him. I was waiting for him to turn to one of the sideline cameras after facing one of Philly's hapless forwards to scream, "I claim this land in the name of Spain!"

In non-living-vicariously-through-others news, I spent twenty minutes late, late last night chasing Shredder the Ageless Doberman around Frayser in 40-degree weather without a jacket after he forced his way out of the back yard. The only thing shittier than trying to catch a huge dog who doesn't want to get caught is catching up with him when he's sniffing around a stray chow mix who doesn't want you to live. So that was fun.

Anyway. The audio commentary on the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines DVD really sucks. There are a few different commentary tracks, but the actors one, which is the only one anyone wants to hear, is terrible. Everyone was recorded separately, except Claire Danes and director Jonathan Mostow, and it's clear immediately that they are the only ones actually watching the film. Arnold, Kristanna Loken (the chick who plays the terminatrix), and the new, non-Eddie Furlong John Conner guy are clearly giving interviews, with excerpts pasted into the commentary. This is especially bad with Gov. Schwarzenegger, who rambles on and on in endless run-on sentences like some monstrous Faulkner clone with a bad accent about how important it was for the terminator to get dragged through a building by a crane. But the movie itself is surprisingly good. Much like The Matrix Reloaded, the writers have gone out of their way to bring the most stupefyingly unrealistic action sequences to the screen, and they pulled it off somehow.

To make this deluxe-edition update complete, I'll mention that I spent a couple hours yesterday customizing Firefox. I've got this browser doing things Internet Explorer can't even dream of. I can't stress this enough, people: Firefox, if not Mozilla as a whole, is probably the single most usable and effective internet application ever. And it's open source. Maybe that says something about the state of the mainstream, stock-exchange-listed computer industry.