Meaningless Holidays

Happy President's Day all! I'm sure you're like me and did nothing to acknowledge our founding fathers.


President's is among the holidays that most people get off of work, but no one really celebrates. To be honest, those are the best holidays! I love not having to do anything. It give us time to relax, get caught up with our lives, or plan something to do.

Holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving get all the glory because they're based around celebration and tradition.The truth is that everyone needs a little relaxation, and we can thank President's Day for giving it to us!

Awkward Time Spent Alone

I am currently sitting in the car waiting for my friends to arrive. To my surprise, they will be a half hour later than I had anticipated.

As I wait, I am thinking of the best things to do as I spend these 30 minutes in my lonesome. Here's what I enjoy doing:

1. Play with my phone. That's what I'm doing right now so clearly I have some interest in it. But this gives me an opportunity to get caught up with all of my apps and to look at all those old photos I have stored on my phone.

2. Listen to the radio. I can do this while. I drive, but I never take the time to browse stations. Now I have opportunity.

3. Examine my surrounding. I've been in this parking love thousands of times before, but I've never looked around. Today I will.

4. People watch. The best of all. I wan to see the stupid things people do and how silly they look. Of course, once I get out of the car someone will probably judge me in the same way I'm judging others.

Snow Sucks

I sit here, in the middle of Nor'easter Nemo, watching the show come down. Most of New England got what they wanted, a snow day. As nice as it is it have a day off, it doesn't change the fact that snow sucks. Here's why:

1. It's cold. I know this is obvious, but it is.
2. You have to shovel it.
3. My hate for melting snow is stronger than my love for a snow-covered scene. I like the way freshly fallen snow looks, but it's not worth the disaster that we will be viewing for the next two months.
4. It makes driving harder. Streets will be covered in sand, and that will reflect on your car.
5. It cancels school...sometimes. When it doesn't, it makes like harder.
6. It's never as nice as the movies. If you try to make a snowman, the snowballs are never perfect. Your snowangel always gets a hand print in it.
7. You have to dress up to go in it. It's easier to take clothes off than to put them on.
 

Keep Calm

Anyone else getting sick of the "Keep Calm and..." trend? I see it everywhere.

The trend originated when an old piece of British propaganda from World War II resurface and became popular. It simply read "Keep Calm and Carry On." Now, people enjoy replacing the "Carry On" with a variety of annoying nonsense phrases.

It's no longer funny. In fact, it was never funny. I am not going to "Keep Calm and Tim Tebow," nor am I going to waste my money on anything that starts off by telling me to "Keep Calm"

5 Reasons Beyonce Was the Shit

 

Superbowl 2013 has come and gone, and The Ravens won. But we all know who the MVP is...BEYONCE. Here's why:

1. She had too many hits to perform. Her performance was like Beyonce Roulette. You didn't know if your favorite song was going to be played or not, but you knew her performance would be good anyway.

2. She brought out Destiny's Child. We all wanted to see this reunion, even if we forgot the names of the other two members.

3. She dismissed Destiny's Child. You would think that having Destiny's Child on stage would be the big finale, but you'd be wrong. Rather than keep Kelly and Michelle on stage until the end, she dismissed them so she could close out the show all by herself.

4. She kept family first. Last year Madonna needed big names like Cee Lo and Nicki Minaj. Beyonce just had her old bandmates and her sister come out...and it was AWESOME.

5. She sure the Superdome down. Even the lights needed a break after her performance.

Game On

 

The Wii U was release just in time for Christmas. It seemed like a likely candidate to become a hot ticket item for the 2012 holiday season, but Nintendo was met with disappointing sales. When the original Wii was released for the 2006 holiday season, it was very difficult to find. Then in 2007 the console shortage continued. The Wii was a huge success, but it wasn't able to produce longterm interest in the Nintendo brand name. This year I was able to locate the Wii U on store shelves in the weeks leading up to Christmas, a surefire sign that the Wii U had underwhelming sales.

Now Sony and Microsoft are getting ready to release new systems, I'm looking forward to seeing what they have to offer. I'm just a casual gamer. I can be convinced to buy a new gaming system, but I'm not going to be standing outside a store to get it in its first hours of release. I like to wait for the reviews of both the system and its games. 

What I'd like to emphasis is that I am interested in the quality of the games, and that is what Nintendo is lacking. With the Wii, I feel like they focused way too much of motion control and not enough on the quality of the games. The idea of motion control seemed cool, but people lost interest over time. When Xbox released the Kinect, people became more interested in that, which is just an add on. Motion control is not required to use the Xbox 360, but you can have motion controlled games if you're willing to upgrade to the Kinect.

For the next generation of gaming, I want to see a stronger focus on the games. The Wii U does not yet have a huge title, and I think that is holding back the sales. Now that information about the Playstation 4 is trickling in, it seems that the focus on games is uncertain. The PS4 may not have backwards compatibility with games from previous generations, which would hurt sales. The PS2 was a very successful system and gamers do not want to retire all of their old games.

It also seems like gaming systems are going to focus on computer content. The ability to connect with other gamers and stream online content is going to be on all the systems. While I do like this, every electronic device does things like this. Even my phone gets me online, so this is not a stand out reason to buy a gaming console.

I'm sure I'll buy at least one of the next generation gaming consoles, but I want to see quality games. It's not a race to release the console fastest (if it was, Nintendo would have won), it's more of a race to be the first to produce quality content.