Hey ladies! Due to popular demand, I'm going to make an effort to help you live your lives by imparting wisdom to you via this very blog using a series I'm calling "Nate's tips for the ladies." I hope you like it.
TIP #1: Hold the Door
OK ladies, here's the situation. You're walking through a door, one of those doors that closes automatically. No, not opens automatically, just closes. You have to push or pull it open. Got it? There's a lot of people going through the same door at about the same time as you. Maybe they're all leaving a building at the same time. Maybe they're leaving the subway station. Use your imagination, I'm sure you can come up with some scenario.
Anyway, the guy in front of you walks through the door by pushing it open and holds it for you. Now I'm not talking about a chivalrous "stand-behind-the-door-and-wave-you-through" kind of door holding. This is a simple "give the door a bit of a push so it stays open long enough for you to get to it" kind of hold. So you, no doubt grateful for the help, enter the door and DON'T HOLD IT FOR THE NEXT PERSON. Maybe you hurry through the door. Maybe you even do a little sidestep-dodge move to avoid the closing door. When you do this, that door closes ON THE PERSON BEHIND YOU (most likely me). It's not that much to ask, you don't even have to look at me. Ladies... hold the door, please. That is all.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Video Games
Over the last week or two, we've managed to gather a pretty significant number of new video games or to start playing games that we've had but never got around to playing.
Over the weekend, I started playing Bioshock, which I plucked out of the bargain bin at Gamestop a month ago. Pat happened to see me playing and was addicted before he even picked up the controller. Which he did that very night afternoon. And proceeded to not put it down for pretty much the whole weekend. Watching Pat rampage through Rapture all weekend got me thinking about how differently all the people in this household play video games. So allow me to enlighten you.
PAT: Pat has a shoot-first-ask-questions-later style of play that helps him survive in situations you'd never expect him to survive (playing easy mode also helps). Unfortunately, that doesn't mesh well with his rushed or nonexistent room searches. He has a tendency to run out of ammo and then change weapons wildly looking for something with ammo. These periods are intensely comical, as it usually results in a series of partial reloads, shots of eve, security alerts, and accidental research photos. He achieves nearly complete unpredictability.
LAUREN: Lauren's style is somewhat like Pat's, but with more finesse. She's impatient and so runs in with guns blazing, but usually in a slightly more organized fashion than Pat. While this takes away the element of chaos on which Pat thrives, it creates a James Bond-type atmosphere that makes her look quite badass when it works properly. When it doesn't work properly, it makes her look quite silly.
NORA: Nora plays video games the same way she reads books: in marathon sessions. Nora may not possess raw video game beating powers, but will play at all hours of the day and night until the game submits. Nora plays a Rocky Balboa style game of sheer endurance.
SHARON: Sharon doesn't play enough video games with us, so I can't comment on her style. I do know that she is quite good at Space Channel 5 and Soul Calibur.
ME: I don't think it's fair to judge myself. I leave it to everyone else.
Over the weekend, I started playing Bioshock, which I plucked out of the bargain bin at Gamestop a month ago. Pat happened to see me playing and was addicted before he even picked up the controller. Which he did that very night afternoon. And proceeded to not put it down for pretty much the whole weekend. Watching Pat rampage through Rapture all weekend got me thinking about how differently all the people in this household play video games. So allow me to enlighten you.
PAT: Pat has a shoot-first-ask-questions-later style of play that helps him survive in situations you'd never expect him to survive (playing easy mode also helps). Unfortunately, that doesn't mesh well with his rushed or nonexistent room searches. He has a tendency to run out of ammo and then change weapons wildly looking for something with ammo. These periods are intensely comical, as it usually results in a series of partial reloads, shots of eve, security alerts, and accidental research photos. He achieves nearly complete unpredictability.
LAUREN: Lauren's style is somewhat like Pat's, but with more finesse. She's impatient and so runs in with guns blazing, but usually in a slightly more organized fashion than Pat. While this takes away the element of chaos on which Pat thrives, it creates a James Bond-type atmosphere that makes her look quite badass when it works properly. When it doesn't work properly, it makes her look quite silly.
NORA: Nora plays video games the same way she reads books: in marathon sessions. Nora may not possess raw video game beating powers, but will play at all hours of the day and night until the game submits. Nora plays a Rocky Balboa style game of sheer endurance.
SHARON: Sharon doesn't play enough video games with us, so I can't comment on her style. I do know that she is quite good at Space Channel 5 and Soul Calibur.
ME: I don't think it's fair to judge myself. I leave it to everyone else.
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