Comments on: Shared: If ever anyone had a look that screamed “potential air… http://www.mikeindustries.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mikeindustries.com%2Fblog%2Farchive%2F2010%2F04%2Fif-ever-anyone-had-a-look-that-screamed-potential-air&seed_title=Shared%3A+If+ever+anyone+had+a+look+that+screamed+%E2%80%9Cpotential+air%26%238230%3B A running commentary of occasionally interesting things. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:03:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gainesville Designhttp://www.mikeindustries.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mikeindustries.com%2Fblog%2Farchive%2F2010%2F04%2Fif-ever-anyone-had-a-look-that-screamed-potential-air&seed_title=Shared%3A+If+ever+anyone+had+a+look+that+screamed+%E2%80%9Cpotential+air%26%238230%3B/comment-page-1#comment-69123 Gainesville Design Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:48:22 +0000 http://tumblelog.mikeindustries.com/post/504899659#comment-69123 This is kinda amusing but at the same time it reminds me of how we are taking more traditional skills like musical skill and reducing them to this. I told my stepson that in the time he has spent playing Guitar Hero, he could be well on his way to learning to play a real guitar. His response was that Guitar Hero is more difficult than a real guitar. What his basis for comparison is I have no idea but he really believed what he was saying.At least air guitar is a skill at entertaining someone. Since the competition was held somewhere outside of my home, I can guarantee it is a skill he will not care to acquire. This is kinda amusing but at the same time it reminds me of how we are taking more traditional skills like musical skill and reducing them to this. I told my stepson that in the time he has spent playing Guitar Hero, he could be well on his way to learning to play a real guitar. His response was that Guitar Hero is more difficult than a real guitar. What his basis for comparison is I have no idea but he really believed what he was saying.

At least air guitar is a skill at entertaining someone. Since the competition was held somewhere outside of my home, I can guarantee it is a skill he will not care to acquire.

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