Why I can't play pool

Pool, the sport of kings, is something I should not play. My reasoning behind this is that I am clearly not good at it anymore. My cousins own a pool table, and whenever I was over there I would partake in a game. After winning I would be a gracious winner, and not gloat about my victory at all. Truly I was good; and I now realize I may have lost my talent. I played a game in the SA lounge and was easily defeated by my nemesis Nick and his partner Ben. It seems weird to me because I could and still can always see the direction and angles. When I actually get around to hitting the ball it never goes the right way, this is either because i'm not good at pool or because the table is tilted (seems more logical).

I'd rather use my feet. This is why I can't play pool because i'm a soccer player. I played soccer through high school and developed some pretty awesome control and dangling skills. So clearly my talent must have been drained at some point to allow me to be better at soccer then at pool. So i figure, if i want to be better at pool, I must not be good at soccer. Since I haven't played soccer in about a year I should be slowly pooling my talent and soon enough I could potentially focus it into pool (or school work ... never mind).

Here's a video of some trick shoot that I will be able to do sooner or later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OepbfgWASLE

Cell Phone Applications

The first thing I’ve noticed about my classes is that there is a lot of emphasis about ongoing changes in the media. It’s very obvious that almost everything is going digital, but I didn't realise how much cell phone applications are changes the way we view our media. My current cell phone is an LG neon so I have basically no applications on it, however I have been looking for a new phone. I never really saw the point in applications, since I was used to using a mobile browser to navigate through the internet, but after a brief discussion in class I want to experiment with application use. I looked up a few interesting applications for the apple iPhone 3, they seem to all be very useful as a convenience to avoid surfing the internet for specific sites. Some of the more interesting applications I came across deal with language translation and long distance video communication. Personally I enjoy the interesting little applications; one I found very interesting is a song detector. With this application you can hold your phone close to a speaker playing a song, and the application will tell you the name of the song and the band that plays it, then direct you to download site where you can buy it! After looking over all the interesting applications I’m defiantly going to check out a Smartphone next time I go look for a new phone.

My First Blog Entry!

           This is all very new to me as you could probally tell from this being my  first blog entry, ever. This is my first year at St. Lawerence College, I am taking the Advertising - IMC course which, is the main reason why I am writing this blog. An assingment was given to my Writing for Marketing Comminications class to create a journal entry blog, about what we are learning in our classes and to make some comments on issues related to media and culture. So if the education prossess works properly my blog entries should become more enlightened every week, hopfully.

Being so early in the semester my first impression of this course is that it will be very enjoyable and informative. A lot of the classes for the first year seem to  revolve around developing our public speaking abilities and our social awarness. So far as a class we have learned some basic marketing and social interaction techniques to help us with all the presentations we will be doing in this course, which is a lot.

Just a little about me, I am a very social person and I make new friends effortlessly. I enjoy socializing even if its just small talk, I pretty much just like the sound of my own voice (Which I don’t consider a bad thing since I’m in advertising). Sportswise I am a Toronto Maple Leaf fan, even if they suck. I enjoy playing either tennis or soccer in my spare time.

 Hopfully with my naturally social attiutde once I’m done this course I can land myself a good job. As per the assingment I will be keeping this blog updated every week, with different topics of interest to post!