Check it, yo: GMail is finally supporing IMAP! Unfortunately, they’re only rolling it out to select users, and I am not one of them. (Via Daring Fireball)

What a heartbreaker for Pittsburgh! Roethlisberger, despite 2 interceptions and a fumble, had a phenomenal day with 4 TD passes and 290 pass yards.

And one of the reasons I come out on top, even with Dallas Clark left to play tomorrow night, is that I have Jason Elam as my kicker. Current standings: 94-73. Current record: 5-2-0. Not bad for only playing with one running back today. Boo-yah.

First, BEARS!!! It was ugly, but it was a win. And how about that last drive? 97 yards with no timeouts. The Bears? Yeah, you heard right. The Bears. Awesome.

In fantasy news, I’m tied up with my opponent, and I’ve still got 4 players to play: Ben Roethlisberger, Najeh Davenport, Jason Elam, and Dallas Clark. My opponent has the Steelers’ Heath Miller yet to play. After expecting to lose horribly this week, now I am cautiously hopeful that I’ll win. Woo!

5 TD passes in the first half. And how about that Wes Welker? Awesome.

And the rest of the Patriots’ season, with the possible exception of the Indianapolis game in a few weeks¹, is going to be easy as pie. My god.

¹ Well, and the Steelers later on. I’m interested to see how the league’s #1 defense will match up with them.

This is the week I am expecting to tank; both LT and Deshaun Foster have a bye this week, so I’ve only got Najeh Davenport at running back. And with Willie Parker back and healthy for the Steelers, I’m not expecting too many points off him. According to the preview, my opponent was favored by 4 points, but hopefully I’ll get some serious points off the Patriots’ defense, who are up against the ineffectual Dolphins offense this week.

OTOH, my opponent has Eli Manning at QB, and the Giants are up against the equally ineffectual 49ers this week, so this could get ugly.

Running Scared – 3 stars

Low 3. Wayne Kramer, the writer/director, says about 2 minutes into the making-of documentary (which I turned off about a minute later for being too irritating—Kramer is too self-important, for one) that no one really makes movies with grit any more. Well, this one has plenty of grit. So much grit that it’s buried under a six-foot deep pile of its own dirt. And should stay there.

Drowning in gimmicky camera work, flat characters and ridiculously over-the-top dialogue (of which, I swear to god, the word “fuck” comprises at least 50%), what ultimately save this movie from a 2-star rating are the performances of some of its stars: Paul Walker (whom I’ve never seen in another movie, so I had no preconceived notions about him), the consistently talented Vera Farmiga, a cool Chazz Palmintieri, and Cameron Bright, whom I first noticed for his great performance in Thank You for Smoking. Sad to say that Johnny Messner, on the other hand, as hot as he is, is a terrible actor. Just awful.

This movie didn’t have half the smarts—or style—of Smokin’ Aces, and what’s worse, wasn’t nearly as entertaining. In Hollywood, there is the real thing, and there is the pale imitation. The Usual Suspects, and Suicide Kings. Snatch, and Layer Cake. Narc, and this movie. Big disappointment.

Until what, you ask?

To me and a small group of my friends, it’s 7 days until we go to Vegas to celebrate my 30th birthday. This is my personal guarantee: Vegas will never be the same.

To most everyone else, though, it’s 7 days until Apple releases the next version of Mac OS X: version 10.5, named Leopard.

I have, of course, already pre-ordered^* my copy, and await it with bated breath. I plan on installing it on my personal laptop, a G4 PowerBook, but will wait until the first couple of patches come out (as, inevitably, they will) to install it on my work laptop.

Look out for my first impressions after installation, much like I did with Tiger. In the meantime, check out this neat-o guided tour.

^* What does this mean? That I’m ordering it before I order it? This is a flagrant bastardization of the English language, much like the words “pre-board”, “pre-install”, and “pre-fetch”. Jesus.

a Superbowl preview today^*, and we saw today what I think we’ll see in February. The Patriots simply outclassed the Cowboys, who are an excellent team, but just not on the Pats’ level.

^* Yes, I know that the road to the Superbowl has to go through Indianapolis yet, but, man, the Patriots just look unstoppable. The Cowboys, on the other hand, have no competition in the NFC. At all.

In fantasy news, I’m currently up by 10 and still have Bobby Engram to play. This game was made for me by LT and Wes Welker, who had huge performances today with 44 and 24 points, respectively.

I’m favored by 20 points in today’s matchup, partly because my opponent has two inactive quarterbacks: Jake Delhomme and Rex Grossman. In fact, as my opponent is a Bears fan and has most of their players on her fantasy team, including their DST—except for Desmond Clark, who I have at TE—rooting for them will mean rooting for her. But I’m willing to risk it. BEARS!

Speaking of Ds, I have the only defense, I think, that could compete with the Bears’: the Patriots’. It’ll be a good matchup…stay tuned for more.

What a nail biter! That was possibly the craziest game I’ve ever seen.

I won’t lie; I was really rooting for the Cowboys here, but you gotta feel bad for the Bills tonight. They were just on, and couldn’t seem to beg, borrow or steal a win. Poor guys.