Ok, while surfing around MSNBC.com today, I came across a story about a man in China that died over the weekend, "After a 'marathon' session of online gaming." Curious as to how this would be turned on the gaming community, I foolishly clicked on the link and read the article.
While MSNBC.com made a big deal about Xu Yan leading a dull life and spending the entire 7 day holiday of the Chinese New Year either watching TV or playing online video games, they seemed to gloss over a very important point...this 26 year old gamer was 330 pounds.
I'm not a physician, I don't even play one on TV, but I'm willing to wager that a big factor in his death wasn't so much that he played online games for a week straight, but that he was massively obese. I'm a big fan of placing blame where it lays, and this article bothered me because it seemed to want to blame an industry that probably had nothing to do with the death.
So, if somebody from MSNBC.com happens to read this (though I doubt they will), in the future it would be nice if you could make the focus of your pieces on something slightly more factually based. I know sensationalism sells papers, but you're only hurting your reputation by putting up stories like this.
George R. Perry
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
So...
So...as has been pointed out to me at great length, I haven't updated this since the turn of the year. Quite a lot has changed since then, so I guess it's only fair that I bring everybody up to speed. First of all, roughly two weeks ago, April and I spent a weekend in NYC. My parents graduation present to me was a hotel room at the Muse hotel (which I highly recommend to everybody) on 46th st between 6th and 7th ave. Right at Times Square bitches. After that, I finally got my big boy job.
After years of working on my degree and months of looking for a job that didn't involved telling everybody by name, I finally got a job that allows me to use my degree. I'm working for a company, Targetem.com, that does SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as a copywriter. It's a small firm, but I enjoy the work, I get to read about new things every day, and the only people I have to deal with are the people in my office. It's nice.
The only downside to the job is that it's located in Chesapeake, VA...or about 100 miles south of Richmond. If I was swingin' single this wouldn't be cause for any stress, but luckily I do have an April, and said April works in Richmond at her big girl job. We're working on a compromise. Williamsburg. Nothing's official yet, and probably won't be for a while, but we're looking at getting an apartment in Williamsburg to split the difference on our commutes. Until then I'm staying with some family friends in Yorktown during the week and then going back up to Richmond on the weekends. So many miles on my car, but it's worth it for now.
Other than that, it's all been pretty normal. No more uniforms for me, I'm finally grown up and have a job with real hours, benefits, and weekends off. So this is what getting older feels like....not sure how I feel about it yet.
George R Perry
-the Tender Tender
After years of working on my degree and months of looking for a job that didn't involved telling everybody by name, I finally got a job that allows me to use my degree. I'm working for a company, Targetem.com, that does SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as a copywriter. It's a small firm, but I enjoy the work, I get to read about new things every day, and the only people I have to deal with are the people in my office. It's nice.
The only downside to the job is that it's located in Chesapeake, VA...or about 100 miles south of Richmond. If I was swingin' single this wouldn't be cause for any stress, but luckily I do have an April, and said April works in Richmond at her big girl job. We're working on a compromise. Williamsburg. Nothing's official yet, and probably won't be for a while, but we're looking at getting an apartment in Williamsburg to split the difference on our commutes. Until then I'm staying with some family friends in Yorktown during the week and then going back up to Richmond on the weekends. So many miles on my car, but it's worth it for now.
Other than that, it's all been pretty normal. No more uniforms for me, I'm finally grown up and have a job with real hours, benefits, and weekends off. So this is what getting older feels like....not sure how I feel about it yet.
George R Perry
-the Tender Tender
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