I’m not one who cares much for Halloween, and haven’t since I was the too-old-to-be-trick-or-treating-kid, but I’ve got to say that I have seen some really creative costumes posted online during my daily travels through the internet. Below is the video of my hands down favorite costume of all time. To understand it [...]
OK, ok. I know, poor baby. But you’ve got to admit that it is a little funny. For those of you non-gamers, the song and sound effects that are used are from Street Fighter 2.
I was going to include a part in my last post about the shootings at VT about how the media will no doubt start blaming this incident on video games, tv, and music. I didn’t at the time because I didn’t want to belittle the message. But this morning I wake up and see a [...]
There is an interesting article about video games and their effect on the brain at theglobeandmail.com
Here is a excerpt:
A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are [...]
Well, we went over to Alison’s for Thanksgiving thursday, and had a great time. The food was great and we had a lot of good fun playing some cards and videogames (whenever I could sneak it in). I think that Rachael enoyed herself as well, as she always gets lots of attention. I’m sure she [...]
Well the day I have been waiting for for almost a year has come and I have my new XBOX 360. I pre-ordered it about 6 months ago so I didn’t have to wait in line like all of those crazy people at Best Buy’s across the nation. Poor Kris though was told [...]
Well, last night Alina carved her first pumpkin ever on the same night that Rachael carved (or watched as we carved) her first. It is interesting though to note the lack of creativity that I have, having carved probably twenty or more pumpkins (yes, my mom let me play with sharp knives when I was [...]
Again, like my last post, I was bored and had nothing better to do so I wrote a little script for a countdown to the launch of the XBOX360 which comes out November 22nd. I’m sure as Alina is reading this she is rolling her eyes, but I’m sure she isn’t surprised, and hey, [...]
