Meat: The “Yardstick of Protein Foods”, from the July 1951 issue of the Ladies Home Journal (scanned by weirdvintage)
Warriors
The walk-on contest winners for Arrested Development season 4. (More easter eggs to look for!)
I missed the Belmont Stakes this weekend. Surprising results!
What Days are most common for making love?
Shift Laughing Squid’s Birthday Chart 9 months and voila!
What is up with the end of March? Elaborate set ups for April Fool’s?
SyFy’s Exit
Recently I talked of my enjoyment of of the game show Solitary. I like shows that are immersive. I mean, that is part of my enjoyment of Survivor. Remember where I said Solitary shared aspects with the movie Cube? Well, this more so.
I have just started watching the first episode of SyFy’s Exit.
Set up: The show introduces four teams of two. They are led into a room. And the floor, like a super villain’s trap, starts to slide away. The teams jump to four beams sticking from the walls. They are then told they have to answer questions. For every second they take to answer, their beam gets shorter by one inch. (We, the audience, isn’t shown what is below them. I can only assume it is rigt below the frame and padding and safety personnel.)
This is just the first room.
I mean, we aren’t talking great production values but it is commitment to a B-horror movie style that is delightful.
An Open Letter to Matt Ralston
While this is an awesome response to the original blog post, I think it is important to read Ralston’s follow up post (sincere or not). (Not to defend or criticize someone I don’t know at all… but I think it maybe sloppy satire as opposed to dump hate.)
Hi, Matt Ralston. I don’t know if we’ve ever met in person, but we sure do have a lot of friends in common on Facebook and we both do comedy in LA. But since I don’t know if we’ve met, I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Rye Silverman, I’m also a…
Casual observations of the Xbox One/Playstation 4 launches
So as almost anyone with interest in video games knows, Microsoft and Sony both “revealed” their next gen consoles yesterday. (“Revealed” is in quotes is because there had already been partial reveals earlier.)
Most attention has gone to two things. One, that the Xbox One will limit the trading/reselling of games and will require the system communicate with the internet at least once every 24 hours while the PS4 won’t. And, two, the PS4 will be $100 cheaper than the Xbox One ($399 vs $499).
What I find very interesting is that near no one (that I can find in a casual look) is talking about system specs and capabilities.
I ran with The artsy nerdy scientist’s suggestion of Tina as the 12th Doctor and added companions.
