Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Eric McErlan reviews Oliver Stone's conversion and new movie on nuclear power. Fan of Eric's and looks like Stone is now a fan of nuclear. Can't wait to see it.

- How to solve a Rubik's cube.

- Oldest signs of human ansestors' trek to Australia found in Laoation cave. 

- Not a Mike Tomlin fan (would love for a player to blow him up if he ever got in the way of a play again) but this is a powerful message that should be shared.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting profile of Doug Stanhope.

- Awesome (in the literal sense) - 22 of the finalists for 2016 weather photo of the year

- The University of New Hampshire should be ashamed of itself

- Eric McErlain returns to writing on hockey. Hooray!

- Heh heh - Tom Selleck's Mustache

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thoughts I'd share.

Interesting - What the most successful people do before breakfast

Heh Heh - Its funny because its true. The One has become a punchline

Obama skips out on lunch tab - the funny thing is this comes right after Obama doing the metaphor of Bush sticking him with a dinner check. The gang that can't shoot straight.

Here's one of my favorite baseball commercials of all-time

If you are a Breaking Bad fan - how can you watch this and not get pumped up for the new season?

Eric McErlain is back to blogging

All the best to Sean McDonough who needs brain surgery. He literally has a hole in his head.

Linky Links

Some stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

- 10 fascinating people you've never heard of

- Eric McErlain is a fascinating person but I hope you've heard about via His Off Wing Opinion. Anyway - Eric has a new gig.

- Carnivorous plants - cool. Be sure to read the text that goes with each picture. Feed me Seymour.

- Great Tweets of Science

- Sharona, immortalized in Knack's "My Sharona," now sells real estate

- Discovery of female sex hormone progesterone in walnut tree shakes up known differences between plants and animals

Kentucky Derby Picks

The dad of Eric McErlain (Off Wing Opinion) knows his horses. He was the only person I know who correctly picked Giacomo to win the Derby back in 2005 - a 50-1 shot that paid handsomely. I asked Eric for his dad's picks this year and this is what was sent back:

Dunkirk (to Win)
Friesan Fire
Pioneer of the Nile

Outside shot Musket Man

I know I'll be playing that ticket today when I head to the track.

Eric McErlain Interview

Nice interview of Eric McErlain. He covers the future of sports blogging but he makes an interesting observation that really caught my attention.

I'm beginning to experience some interesting tensions in my own life. It's fairly common for many folks to define themselves through their job: I'm a lawyer, doctor, bricklayer, etc. But now that we have the Web, there's a whole other side of people's personalities that suddenly have a creative outlet.

In my own case, I'm having a Web 2.0 identity crisis. On the one hand, I'm Eric McErlain, the reasonably successful corporate writer and communicator. It's provided me with a comfortable lifestyle, rewarding work and the opportunity to work with and for some very interesting people.

But then there's Eric McErlain the sports blogger. That Eric McErlain gets invited to watch a hockey game with the team owner, helps teach seminars on blogging at the National Press Club and gets written up in Forbes, Rolling Stone and Newsweek.

Guess which Eric has more fun? And once you answer that question, tell me what you do about it. As for me, I'm still trying to figure it out.

One of the big dangers of blogging is that it is addicting and can sometimes cut into time that should be spent on "real-world" work. The healthy balance is tough to maintain. That is why you see so many bloggers get burned out from blogging.

This is probably a subject that should be explored in more depth.