Complaint: Get a Life

In keeping with the whole living-virtually-versus-actually-living riff I'm on, I'd like to give shout-outs to Wii for making you pretend to play a sport, Guitar Hero for making you pretend you're a musician but not really teaching you anything, to Tap Farm for reducing a complex and vital industry to a few flicks of the finger, and to all the other games and systems that require moderate to strong hand-eye coordination and zero imagination.

And let's not forget going to see your kids perform and spending the entire time behind a viewfinder as you attempt to record what you're too busy focusing on to actually witness.

Put the video games away and go outside and play, FFS! Where I live, if the sun is shining for more than thirty seconds at a time, you'd best get your butt out there and enjoy it before it rains again.

And when it does rain, how about a book? If you don't feel like reading, they make great walls and forts.

Use your imagination, if you still have one.