Thursday miscellanea #268

I’m sure tickled to have sub-freezing highs and single-digit lows back, aren’t you?
According to a Princeton study, Facebook is primed to pull a MySpace and lose 80% of its users. I’m not so sure, but the commentary in this article definitely has one thing right. If it happens, there won’t be much middle ground. It’ll be a trickle and then a torrent, with nearly no in-between.
Today Mariska Hargitay becomes one of the sexiest 50-year-olds in the world. Happy Birthday!
Headed out tonight with the whole crew to review a restaurant. Watch Rocket City Mom early next week for my scintillating insights.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is well done, but this one is unambiguously too long. It’s 2:40 or so. It would have been more effective at 2:10. I’ll go ahead and call a bit of CGI abuse in some of the middle fight scenes, too.
Coach Saban has visited Jacob Coker at his home. I think you can start writing the fall narrative in pen, not pencil.
A blogging friend of mine just asked about favorite fonts. Got any? Mine are Tahoma and Magneto.