Five Worst Snow Cities in America.

Thanks to the massive snow storm blowing through the Midwest, it reminded me even more how much snow sucks. It makes it hard to drive, it's cold, and after it's been on the ground for a few hours, it looks like poop. Due to Hollywood making snow seem awesome, everyone who has never experienced it before puts "seeing snow in person" on their bucket list. Seriously? I know I've been in Illinois my whole life, so I've had the "pleasure" of seeing snow every year, but in no way, shape or form can you say "Well, for someone from Florida, seeing snow would be like you seeing a beach or a palm tree!". Ummmm...nope. Beaches and palm trees rule, snow just fails. When you think of a beach or a palm tree, you immediately think of sunny weather, warm temperatures, and scantly clad women (sorry E, it's the truth!). When you think of snow, you immediately think of overcast skies, freezing temperatures, and overly clothed women. Which one sounds better to you? Exactly.

So if you're anything like me, you would be smart to avoid these five cities when it comes around to Winter. (Stats according to GoldenSnowGlobe.com.)

1. Syracuse, New York. 2010-2011 snowfall rate: 114.4 inches

2. South Bend, Indiana. 2010-2011 snowfall rate: 78.4 inches

3. Rochester, New York. 2010-2011 snowfall rate: 77.1 inches

4. Hartford, Connecticut. 2010-2011 snowfall rate: 71.1 inches

5. Buffalo, New York. 2010-2011 snowfall rate: 62.6 inches

Reading those stats and seeing those pictures make me throw up a little in my mouth..Maybe some of the snow outside would help clean the taste out. I mean, there IS plenty of it..

Power Balance.

If any of you know me pretty well, you know that I love the game of basketball. Weather it be high school, college, or pro, I love me some basketball. Lately in the basketball, and sports world in general, there has been a new trend going around (other than drug and sex scandals.). It's called Power Balance, and it's a little silicon bracelet that "Is embedded with a range of frequencies found in nature that react positively with your body's energy field." and "improve[s] balance, flexibility, and strength as well as contributing to an overall sense of well being among its users." I know what you're thinking because I thought the same thing when I heard about it; bull crap. There's no way that this silicon bracelet helps you! Except that all the NBA players swear by them! Shaq, Kobe, and Derrick Rose are just a few that claim they improve their performance. Now, I didn't really buy any of this, but I thought they looked cool and, hey, what would I lose if I bought one right?

So when I was walking around the mall with E on Saturday, they had an entire kiosk of these Power Balance bands right outside of Hollister! I had seen them advertised on their website for $29.95 plus S&H, and there was no way I was paying that amount of money. To my surprise, this kiosk was selling them for only $14.99! So I thought, "Why not?" and bought one.

Shaq, Kobe, and D. Rose better watch out now...

After E and I got home, we decided to test it out using two tests the box illustrated. One was where you stand on one foot with both arms extended to your sides, and then someone pushes down on one of your arms to try and get you to fall. You perform this without the bracelet, and then with it on (obviously). The entire time leading up to this test, I was thinking to myself, "There's absolutely no way this is going to work!". So we go ahead and perform the test and to my utter disbelief, it actually improved my test result when I had the bracelet on!

Now, I know that I've only had the Power Balance band for a few hours, and yes the test E and I performed wasn't scientific by any means, but the results don't lie! In my honest opinion (or IMHO if this were AIM) though, I'm going to say this is all a mind over matter deal. Your mind EXPECTS the band to work, so your confidence in it actually improves your performance. It's just like any other lucky charm that one may have.

Even though the Power Balance band may not posses supernatural powers, or harness the natural energies of the Earth, it is pretty cool to have. Plus, anything I can have to make me more like an NBA superstar never hurt anyone.

Friday Fail.

Happy Friday everyone! Something I thought would be pretty fun and will brighten anyone's day, is to post one of my favorite "Fail" videos every Friday. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a good fail? Anyways, enjoy this weeks Friday Fail! (My girlfriend and I LOVE this one!)

Why You Should Delete Your Facebook

So the other day, after weighing the pros and cons, I decided to delete my Facebook. Why you ask? Because it's the right decision. Now before you flip out and tell me how big of an idiot I am and how the only reason I deleted it was because no one would add me, let me explain why Facebook sucks...and why you should delete yours.

Reason #1: "Friends" Who Don't care.

Facebook is FULL of people who don't care about you, or, your status updates. Of the 1,873 "friends" you have, you might be actual friends with 5 of them. I'm not sure how many times I received friend requests from people who talked crap about me in high school, but I lost count and I'm pretty sure they weren't trying to spark up a friendship. And of those 1,873 "friends", 1,800 of them are only friends with you to creep on your pictures. What great "friends"! =]

Reason #2: Judgment

This could be grouped in with fake "friends", but I decided against it. Nearly everything you do on Facebook (status updates, pictures, interests, etc.) is judged by nearly everyone who sees it. I'm EXTREMELY guilty of this as well, which was just another reason to get rid of Facebook because it caused me to be a complete jerk about other people. But seriously, no one really cares about your favorite bands, movies, or books! They especially don't care about your favorite quotations because half of them are inside jokes you have with your dog that no one understands. As you can see, judgment is kind of a problem I'm working on...

Reason #3: Facebook Chat

It's annoying and it sucks. Enough said.

Reason #4: Drunken Statuses and Pictures.

Is there anything more annoying than signing onto Facebook on Saturday afternoon, and having your News Feed FULL of people talking about how wasted they got last night and "OMG what happened last night?!!?!? I REALLY need to stop drinking! LOLZ!"? Didn't think so. Stay classy people..

Reason #5:Status Games/Application Requests

About a month before I left Facebook, a new fad swept the social networking king...Status Games. If you're not familiar with this annoying trend, it was where you put your status as this: "Message me a number, and I'll tell you what I think about you! ;)". People would then send you random numbers to your inbox (popular ones were 69, 666, 23, 34532, 111111111111, etc.) and after receiving someone's message with a number, your status looked something like this: "69: I love you girly! you make everyone smile because you're such a warm-hearted person. We deffffff need to hang out more =]". Now multiply this process by about 200 people updating this every 2 minutes...yea, annoying. When it comes to application requests, I don't think I really need to explain. Let's just say I can go my entire life without ever hearing the word "Farmville" again.

Of course, these were just a few of the many reasons I decided to leave Facebook, and I probably could have come up with a million better reasons, but those were the biggest ones that pushed me over the edge. In fact, I want to know what your biggest problems/concerns about Facebook are. Leave a comment if you want explaining what would make you leave Facebook if you still have one (which I'm sure you do.), or what made you leave if you decided to leave it already. Peace bros and ladies!