Phoenix Suns Clip Clippers After Draining Lakers. What this means for the Global Economy and multi-processors.

What a great time we have out here, in Arizona, in our brilliant Phoenix Suns! Yes, it’s time for ComputerCache to cover Sports: It’s the NBA Playoffs, after all.

Having no time for frills and in order to bring everyone up to speed, the LA Lakers, with Kobe Bryant and others, are a nasty team. Kobe smacks a lot of other players in the mouth with his elbows. Other players are also under investigation for sexual assault; they seem like a pack of gangbangers rather than a basketball team.

It is without doubt, though, that Kobe has the most number of point scored this year than any other player. But does that make him the MVP? Does that make his team the best.

No. Obviously no. Coming back from heartbreaking one and two point loses, overcoming injuries and inappropriate suspensions, not dwelling on obvious and significant last minute bad calls, the Phoenix Suns whipped the LA Lakers in the seventh game of their playoff, and won.

Now the Suns, as of yesterday, lead their series with the LA Clippers, 2-games to 1. LA is sure not going to have any love lost on our brave and courageous Phoenix Suns, not only with the MVP Steve Nash BUT the player awarded a trophy for: Most Improved, Boris Diaw, always high-scorer, full-tilt basketball player Shawn Marion (The Matrix) , best from the bench, Leandro Barbosa (The “Blur”) and reborn-to-basketball, Mr. Kurt Thomas. ring-a-ding Raja Bell and a praiseworth group of others.

The point: the Suns are a Team.

The Lakers thought the only thing that counted was Big Guys, or Kobe, an oversized talent that wanted to be a hero just for himself, or beating up your oppenents rather than playing basketball.

Now the Suns are playing the Clippers. The Good News: The Clippers are ALSO a team. Play great ball. And how refreshing to see two decent teams play each other and not just another example of Laker mob violence and Kobe Bryant King Kong basketball.

It’s interesting how, as we all know, the players of the Lakers or Clippers don’t come from LA, nor the Phoenix Suns born and bred in Arizona. After chaffing about this for
some time, I’ve decided to acknowledge and embrace it. It’s like the Global Economy. And it’s striking how many of the leading players of the Suns come from other nations: Canada, Brazil, France, and Detroit. There is even a player from Ireland (!) — the only Irish player in the NBA (bless his poor sainted mother).

The Computer Conclusions are obvious: the global economy is here and now and we are competing worldwide and the more talent and skill AND TEAMPLAY you have (like multi-processors) the better the overall group performance.

Steve Nash, for example, the MVP for two years in a row, got, like, 5 points in last night’s game !! But the team he was on still Won! And it all has to do with multi-processors, team play, global high-class standards, and good people playing good ball.

Amen.

Apple Holds the Line on iTunes for .99-cents!

This is nice. Give me a song I want for 99-cents and I’m happy as a lark. And very interesting how this whole new mode of marketing is such a success. After all, why buy an album you don’t like if it’s just one track that appeals. Why run down to a ‘music store,’ when you can sit and your desk and: click, click,click.

Of course, no critic can write a column without a complaint. So…I did notice when I was paging through current copies of computer magazines I susbscribe too, that most of the pages were for iPods, and iPod skins and holders, and iPod speakers; or for Xbox games, or those poor Window’s people still living in Dreamland.

But this is also some good stuff, even if your ideal of good stuff is
not the latest iPod skin.

Dang….well, a person would have to be demented or a dillusional luddite not to realize the value of this Computer Age. But the gigantic leaps of the past do seem to have diminished to mm of progress and/or recreational absurdities.

But, Dang…that not all true either.

Well, the news of the day is that: Apple Holds the Line on iTunes for .99-cents!

Yippie!