The Old Tin Shed

I think the answer to that question lies within each of us.  We live in a world where the ability to be informed is easy, the ability to find the truth however is harder.  News agencies around the globe need huge amounts of news to fill air time column space, and to make money on advertising.  So they sensationalize events make them out to be all large all encompassing. They trade on our fear and we let them. Before I go much further I want to say that the next couple of paragraphs are in no way intended to tarnish the memory of our soldiers or those lives suddenly taken by an act of terror. According the Wikipedia 2,996 people died as a result of the attacks on September 11.2001.  In the same year the total deaths by motor vehicle accident in the USA was 42,196, Total number of murders in the same year in the USA 15,980 (source www.FBI.gov, Death by heart disease usa 2010, 597,689 (Source www.cdc.gov) The above are real numbers, based on government reports an...

Game releases these days are a theatrical event, with games making more in the first weeks than some blockbuster movies.  I have been an avid gamer most my life.  I had to take a break for a couple years after I got sick, found I was getting anxious and unsettled.  The line of reality is so blurred now that one can fully immerse oneself into the game the outside world for all intents and purposes vanish.  To me that is the ultimate, and its what I game for. Unfortunately this year one of my favorite franchises comes to a close.  Gears of War 3 was released recently to great fanfare and huge sales numbers.  I admit I have been playing it pretty solidly.  But I am sad, im sad because it has to end. Below I have inserted a youtube clip titled Brothers to the end.  One of the blogs I have been following posed the question. "You have just locked your last clip into your weapon of choice, you are surrounded and there is no way out.  What mu...