Finally, a proper research on the subject of “Violent Video Games” conducted by Harvard Researchers counters the misconception. Seriously, I never bought the whole “violent video games will cause violent behavior” bullshit. Video games are fun even if they are a bit violent. It’s actually quite a good stress reliever.

Soccer moms are controlled almost exclusively by fear. When an opportunist lawyer or psychologist makes the claim that something is dangerous, paranoid moms assume that it is. Now we’ve gotten to the point where enough of these nimrods all believe the same thing so in the collective unconscious of paranoid mothers, video games are responsible for every violent act of every child regardless of the facts. 

I’m glad this conducted this study. I’m glad I never had that “soccer mom” mentality. I’m glad to say that I will one day be playing video games with my son. (whenever that day comes and yes, I will kick his ass in the games - if he wants to beat me, PRACTICE young grasshopper!) But for now, I’m kicking my nephews ass in video games.

Today I was woken up at 6:25AM by a knock at my door from my brother telling me it was 6:30AM and well… I slept the 5 minutes off. Took a shower, felt tired as hell, brushed my teeth, and all that other good stuff. Since I’ve been carpooling (with my brother) for awhile now… I have to wake up earlier now. I miss those days where I woke up an hour later. Prior to leaving for work, I forgot to bring my Lotemax eyedrops for my eye inflammation (from my contact lenses) so I headed back inside but I couldn’t find it so I won’t be applying any eyedrops till tonight. Plus getting out of shape doesn’t help either. I actually weighed myself last night and I actually told myself “Holy sh*t, You’re a fat ass!” So the obvious thing to tell myself is to hit the gym right? Well, not really. Due to some personal issues for the past few months (let’s call it an ankle injury for now), My out-of-shape-ness has been getting out of control. Once my personal issue is over with, I’m hitting the gym again. And did I mention that I have a really painful ingrown toe nail?! After my “ankle injury” - I think I’m going to see the doctor to have it fixed (yikes! I’m going to have only half a nail left). It’s been like this for awhile, I just been withstanding the pain. Jesus, I just realized how many things are wrong in my life in that last paragraph… Not to mention the stuff that I left out.

But work wise, it’s been rather OK i guess… Work load is finally starting to ease up a bit. Thank god the spring break season is over. I’m starting to feel burnt out. I can’t remember the last time I even had a real vacation… I been with this company for over a year now. Last year, I took 1 week of vacation time and it was not for vacation purposes. Plus the job before that (8 months), I only took 1 day off. I’m seriously in dire need of a vacation. I just finished this google maps page for my company. It’s funny how it came about… my boss gave me 30 minutes to research the functionality and I ended up learning the API in that short amount of time. But the result was very satisfactory and alot of the head honchos at the company liked it. I learn things fairly quickly when I apply myself. I guess it’s my gift and my curse. And yesterday I sent out a newsletter email to 594,000+ subscribers and traffic to the company website tripled plus sales were up 50% over last year. Ah, how sweet does that sound. I remember last year, we had like low 400k subscribers. I guess I am pretty good at what I do. My job also requires a lot of research, I have so many webpages opened that I tend to run out of memory (2GB @ 800mhz) fairly quickly. Let’s see I have IE7 with 15 tabs opened and Firefox with 97 tabs opened. Not including all the other apps I have to use. Can we say MULTITASKER? Oh another thing, I sort of closed my myspace page last night. I’m not going into details so “no comment.”

I had about 3 meetings today. I found out that our information systems guy is leaving the company so we’re trying to make sure we’re ready for any kind of impact. So it’s been quite the busy day. And one of our CTO’s (Chief Technical Officer) had me help him write up (or update rather) some document on logging website metrics. It was very last minute and he wanted it done very quickly. I did it in 10 minutes. Not too shabby. Plus he gave me props in the email to everyone. Finally, recognition. But overall, it was a semi-exhausting day. Then I came home to watch the Celtics beat the Suns by a huge margin. Let’s bring home a NBA championship!

I’m going to get ready for bed, goodnight and godspeed. (whatever that means)

My life and/or experiences relate way too well with some of the songs I like. I guess it’s fair to say that “we’re all human.” The resemblence to the things that have been going on is amazingly accurate to these songs. And lately, I find myself listening to older songs because I feel music haven’t been the same since the 1990’s. Or… maybe I’m just old. Who knows? It’s been a tough week for me. Work-wise, personal life-wise, etc. etc. - I need to spend some time and just blank out all the things going inside my head. Shut the world out. Remember to check out the video section to check out some classics…

Lauryn Hill - Ex Factor is such an amazingly well done song. God, what ever happened to her??