Is there hope for print media?

Awhile back, my favorite magazine of all time, EGM Magazine (Electronic Gaming Monthly), went belly up. Readership was way down siting the internet as it's main cause of death.
I was actually a bit saddened by this as EGM was the first game magazine to travel to Japan and get the scoop on new games/gear long before Nintendo and Sega wanted us to know about this stuff. I of course, hadn't purchased a copy of EGM in about 7 years due to the fact that it was pretty much all fullpage ads plus one long childish article by Seanbaby which annoyed the hell out of me. So they canned it.

Well, now it's been repurchased by the original owner/founder, and it looks like it's gonna make a comeback. We'll all have to wait and see if it returns to it's roots of gaming journalistic integrity, or if Seanbaby is once again invited to the party.

The question of course still remains. Can print media (at least in a demographic so jacked-in as gamers) compete with the internet?

Well, my opinion is, it can, but only if people don't have iPhones that they use to surf the internet on the crapper.

Maternity cloths for men.

I've been saying this for years (since my wife was pregnant with our first child), that I should create a line of maternity cloths for men who's significant others are expecting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8063004.stm

I was skinny as a rail before I met my wife and her food luvin' family (God bless 'em!). As soon as she got pregnant, it was all feast and no famine (she craved strawberries everynight... to which we added a healthy dose of whipped cream... not my idea I swear!), hence I have gained a considerable amount of weight over the years (we have gone through this 3 times now). The real kicker is that she lost all her prego weight every time the baby was born. I was not so fortunate...

Ahhhhh that new Nintendo smell!

The kids bought a Nintendo Wii last night. I'm pretty proud of them. They've been pretty good about saving their holiday cash and decided to pool their resources together and buy one. They've actually had enough money for one for quite sometime, but their Mother and I have been encouraging them (ie: not letting them buy one) to wait until they can actually afford a game too.

So I was surfing the net and found Futureshop (essentially BestBuy in Canada) had them on sale. so we decided now's the time. I picked it up on the way home last night, without the kids knowing we got it (they thought they were going to have to wait 'til today). The kids were asleep when I got home so I decided to set it up, looking forward to that new Nintendo smell that always brings me back to my early youth. I open up the box, empty the contents onto the floor (I don't actually care about the Wii), hold the box up to my face and take a big wiff... nothing! Well, not nothing, it did smell like cardboard, but what the hell?! No new Nintendo smell. I feel so ripped off. No trips back in time were had. Fail.

Why do you think I bought all 3 kids their own Nintendo DS for Christmas? It wasn't for the games... perhaps that was the last fix I'll ever get.

Perhaps the Wii smells like snot? We may never know.

May the 4th be with you!

Today is Star Wars Day! Too bad it's not on a weekend so we could have a marathon. I did manage to get the kids to sit through 2 episodes on Friday and Sunday.

All in all had a good weekend. Managed to get outside a bit too.