kobe bryant

Over a year ago I posted by first game video. It was different than the others, as I had the camera pointing at me, and not the game.

I enjoy playing video games, a lot. I just noticed that a bunch of dudes like Tony Hawk, and Kobe Bryant, and Alex Rodriguez (who once hit a home run for me, fun story, not sure if it’s going to make the cut in the First Book), and Michael Phelps also like some of the same games I do.

However, I’m a little bit better at playing games than they are.

See?

Note: title and content of post is also an object lesson in recursion, which I’m currently writing the appendice for. Thanks to Douglas Hofstadter for that one. I can’t wait to read his next book, “I am a Strange Loop”. That should be fun for me, and reading his books is like reading the answers to all the tests, even the ones no has come up with yet. That might even be my first post-year book review.

Yea, it doesn’t come as much as a surprise, but it was exciting to watch. I’m not sure how many people stayed up to watch the game live, but if you did, you got a good one. Spain played above themselves and challenged the U.S. team for the first time in the tournament, getting as close as 2 in the fourth quarter.

Most of the game looked like another iteration of the All-Star scorefest we see every year here. When there are over 200 hundred points scored in 40 minutes (vs. the NBA’s Forty-Eight) you know the defense has taken something of a back seat. Like many other events the “judging” was a bit erratic, but seemed to be shitty for both sides, so it was something of a wash.

They are talking to the two MVPs of the team, Dwayne Wade and Kobe Bryant. Wade was amazing for most of the game scoring 21 in the first half and was typically everywhere. Kobe took over in the last fourth quarter, hitting a huge 3 + 1 after Spain had pulled to within 3 and did a wonderful job of distributing the ball down the stretch.

Good job fellas, thanks for working for it this time.