Eric Scott Matthews

Downton Abbey Meets MtG

It makes no sense really, but I don't care.

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Fact of the day: Fur is the same as Hair

 

What is the difference between hair and fur?

Scientific American writer Kate Wong spoke with mammalogist Nancy Simmons of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about this question. An edited transcript of the interview follows.

Hair or Fur?

is drunk with computing power.

Yes, we can finally be excited for a vampire movie again

Yes, io9 editors, it is ok to be excited about a vampire movie again.

I loved the original Fright Night. It was very meta for me, even as a kid. An almost too self aware commentary on how vampires had lost their teeth a decade before Buffy’s too self aware humor. Fright Night made fun of vampires and our own cultural watering down while still managing to be scary. Special effects that were impressive for the time didn’t weigh it down in the slightest. And it reminded cultish vampire fans that a horror movie can be funny and scary.

Best Yoga for you

I'm a fan of yoga, but not all yoga. And every time I bring it up someone inevitably says to me that they are not flexible enough. At that point I always try and fail to explain that that yoga is not some circus trick, but a practice intended to make you more flexible and balanced.

Also not all yoga is trendy hot yoga

Istead of listening to me you can check out this lengthy but pretty great lifehacker article: How to Find the Right Style of Yoga for You.

 

Bridesmaids wants a bear sandwhich

If I were going to write a sequel to the Hangover, I would want it to be Bridesmaids. Why does Hollywood insist on making the exact same movie with all the same actors and call it a sequel. The Hangover 2 is bound to be a flop, it looks awful. If you liked The Hangover, and I did, check out Bridesmaids.

This is the Honey Badger!

The Lighthouse

 
 
 

Ken's Birthday

It’s Ken’s 50th birthday — and Barbie wants her man back.

via www.suntimes.com

A new tech tragedy: Ipaditis

New Documentary on Ipaditis from the BBC

Friday Question: When you check out a Kindle/iBook do you read the sample or do you just buy it?

Miracle Day is July 8th!

Get ready for some serious fireworks this July.

via www.tvline.com

Exodus International App Review

Yesterday, I saw a number of faceyspace posts about this new controversial app, so I decided to take a look. I'm not sure what exactly I expected, maybe a vibrating buzz every time I had a gay thought or something. One can only hope.

Changes

Clearly you've already noticed that I'm coming home to blogland.

Thanks for all the support!  My page views have already shot up, which surprises me given how long I’ve been away.

Since the last time I blogged the world has literally changed. Revolutions of every kind are blowing from nation to nation. Politics are all over the place. Technology has evolved. Blogging on a tablet while riding the T would have seemed insanely cool back then, but now it just seemed the obvious thing to do.

It's trite to comment on how fast things are moving, and it makes me feel old, but I can't help it.  Things are a changin'.

Changes are coming here too.  Look for an upcoming redesign and feature improvement.  Most of all, though, new content.  I'm back. Just you wait and see.

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Back At It!

Stay Tuned...

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In honor of the London Trip

My excuse for not blogging this week (beyond working too much) is my distraction of London items. 

There's so much going on there despite the financial crisis so much to watch out for.

We'll have to mind the gap for one.
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Why can't we have reliable voting machines?

We have a pretty reliable nationally networked automatic banking machines. 
Why can't we get reliable voting machines?

http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/10/voter-machine-problems.html
http://www.voteraction.org/node/498

My Prediction

I know I owe you some pics from Atlanta, not to mention more words.  But I have been feeling private lately and a little too obsessed with politics.  Anyway here's my pretty safe bet for the night as I wrote in a recent email to a friend who is a bit nervous about his first election.  he even bought champagne.

Be ready with your champagne early.

Watch GA and VA... they both close at 7pm Eastern and are small enough that results should come in fast. Virginia is a red leaning swing state. It is supposed to be one of the swing states that McCain has a real chance of winning, but he isn’t.  If Obama wins it, the race is pretty much over.

GA is more interesting. It is not a swing state but solidly red. However, it has a ridiculous black population and it is one of the places with huge new voter registration and lots of long lines already.  If Obama takes GA then not only is McCain screwed but the Dems will have a great night and possibly hit 60.  I was just in

Atlanta and caught some of the local political ads from Saxby Chamblis (R for Real Name). He is def tying his Dem opponent to Obama and clearly hoping for some racist voting.  It may be a mistake this year given the black vote in GA might be massive.  

 If McCain wins VA and GA then it will be more like the recent elections with late night possibly not until the next day results.

Oh yeah,

GO VOTE

Joe Six-Pack sues

I know, my infrequent posts have been too political lately.  But politics is the subject du jour and I find it more absurd than anything else lately.

Today's is another Joe-related mini-post.  Remember Joe Six-Pack, well he is not made up either.  He's apparently a Crow Indian who actually worked for the Palin's in Alaska.  And he is suing her.  From theDailyBeast:

Joe Six-Pack, 50, Crow Indian, of Wasilla, Alaska. Has done light yard work at Palin residence in recent years, but otherwise no contact with Governor. His tribal council has filed suit against the Alaska Republican Committee and the Palin campaign, charging that his name was obviously passed on to the Palin organization by a Palin family member for political purposes and that said organization has since recklessly held Mr. Six-Pack up to ridicule and racial stereotyping.

haha.  Brilliant.  First Joe the (unlicensed) plumber is revealed to be a biased not-so-secret republican (but probably unregistered to vote) and the kind of guy who will compare the an African American politician to "Sammy Davis, Jr."  and now this.  haha.  Well we do live in a litigious society after all.

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Joe the Plumber

We found him!

http://www.joetheplumber.com/

The non-fight over gays

In the debates last night I liked how the Biden and Palin agreed with each other on several points. It makes for a boring fight, and reminded me of the fight I got into in Jr high with a friend in which he stopped the "fight" every few seconds to make up some new rule "no hitting the face", "no tripping", "no arguing about gay marriage".  But I think a lot of us are sick of all the fighting. We want some real bipartisanship not just the buzzwords. Save the fights for real issues that you disagree on.

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One thing they agreed on was gays and I think that will do some real damage to Palin McCain if it gets picked up in the press. Both Biden and Palin agreed that gays should have similar rights to straights when it comes to marriage, but we should not have the actual rgith to marry. It was bullshit from both of them. I think Biden (and Obama) don’t really care about the gay marriage issue (which is how most straight people should feel), and I think if it were less controversial they would both go for it.  Politically it is not a fight they can win at the moment.

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Palin, on the other hand, is the current champion of the social conservatives and she just told the nation she agrees with the Democrat's party line that gays should have companionship rights (though not full marriage).  Sure I cringed when she said we should be "tolerated", but I also was thrilled to hear her say something that might plant a seed of doubt for all the haters who love her.  Us gays, were used to the compromise.  Most of us understand that this is a slow process.  But those conservatives... well they see thier wall of special rights wearing away and any compromise is a "downward spiral" towards bestiatlity or something like that. We'll see if this becomes an issue with all the nervous social conservatives who are only on-board with McCain because he picked her.

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