Michael's Seafood Restaurant & Catering

My fiancee and I was reluctant to try this place after reading a few mediocre reviews, but in passing while on vaction we decided to see what all the fuss was about.  when we walked in we fell right into its atmosphere. The food tasted great and the quick and painless service made me want to tip.(though i usually dont)My fiancee's love for hush puppies only grew here and we had a ball with the scallops wrapped in bacon. This may very well be our new spot when we go out of town.Maybe it will also be where i propose :)

Drug epidemic Bath Salts and Zombies

So say you woke up one day and bath salt was on the grocery list. What you should keep in mind is that this may not be you father’s cleaning product. Bath salt is the official slang for the mysterious narcotics that contain you in a zombie like mind state….well maybe not literally but as many reports suggest, you can’t help but to think evil thoughts. The controversy started when a Miami local attacked an unconscious homeless man, eating almost half of the man’s face. The homeless man was taken to the hospital and survived but leaving serious injuries. Now I know what you’re thinking, how does a man dig into another man’s face like a mcdouble? Well courtesy of this new drug, it’s said that people possess about 2 to 3 times their normal body strength. Origins of the substance as well as what exactly it’s made up of are still a mystery. At the moment bath salt is on a lawless rampage as you can find it any were from department stores to greenery shops (to use for plant food) but it’s pretty hard to ban a substance when the contents of it is always rapidly changing.
The most common substance in bath salt is MDPV, (or mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone) which cause delirium, hallucinations,rapid heart rates, paranoia, and suicidal thoughts. Dickie sanders, a victum of the drug, experienced 3 days of terrifying hallucinations before slitting his own thought. When the suicide attempt proved unsuccessful he then left the watch of his father and shot himself in the next room. Many actions of those involved in these situations are described as “uncharacteristic” when under the influence which is why many take is as far as to say the people were zombiefied. One man was said to been caught trying to chew the paint off a cop car which would either make him a copycat criminal or the drug really makes people act how the consensus would want to believe. Now looking into fictional stories like Resident Evil doesn’t seem completely absurd. After all, what would stop an organization from making a bigger and better form of it and finding ways of mass distribution? Though that’s a pretty far out situation drugs are really no more than biological weapons. Instances when you hear about a man under the influence fist fighting an officer because he “thought he was a devil”, are almost comical but the threat of this is no joke.

Louisiana takes lead of the epidemic with 48% of all the calls being reported or 165 cases. At least 25 other states have had exposure reports also. Bath salt has definitely caused an up roar though still in its stages of infancy, but why would anyone be willing to inject something with such a potent nature? Convenience maybe? Could it be that it’s familiar to current drugs users because you can inject, snort, or smoke it? Maybe it complements meth and cocaine well? Whatever it is, it’s addictive and wildly popular. It’s as if all the junkies meant in the street and decided to make it the next big fad. Alternate street names for the drug are “white lightning“, “Hurricane Charlie”, “Ivory wave” and “cloud 9″ with the latter being one of the more harder versions. You would think that society has learned its lesson by now but we seem to be a glutton for punishment. No matter how “evil, terrible, or terrifying” the experience is, they want to do it over and over again. Until the drug can be detected in humans and we pin point exactly what it is, there’s no telling how long it will take to make it illegal but for now cases in court are forced to receive judgments like disorderly conduct, basically a time out in the street corner. Eventually this thing may blow over just as crack did which is now grandpa’s drug…Well that is until they find the next big thing to sniff and cause a zombie apocalypse.
What are your thoughts on Bath salt and the crazy people on it? Is it really a problem? Are people purposely acting out on the substance just to gain attention?
Plan on trying it? Let us know and leave a comment.

Consoles War | Cloned Controls

Many know that this generation in the console wars brought gaming into a very different playing field. Even with the rise and success of internet gaming, the industry was seriously lacking innovation. This all changed when in (2006) Nintendo debuted the Nintendo Wii home console adding to the success of the wildly successful Nintendo DS handheld. Wii flew off shelves due to the fact it was offering a unique experience; catering to both casual and hardcore gamers. With Xbox 360 coming out a year before Wii and Playstation 3 coming out around the same time, the competition felt late to the party launching without motion controls. Nintendo, (the company that once was taken for granted) debuted a break through system and ultimately guiding the path of the gaming industry, leading the march in innovation.

Looking back at the mistakes of the past, Microsoft and Sony have an unspoken vow to never underestimate the competitors and began to look at what different types of audiences want. The hardcore market was there but the casual gaming market was a gold mine that Nintendo started hogging the share of and everybody wanted a piece of it. Sony’s answer to this dilemma with a “in your face move” was to update the PS3 with a peripheral almost identical to the wiimote’s wand like features giving the PS3 optional motion controls as well as a upper hand with graphical dominance. Now games once only possible on Wii were being ported to the PS3. Microsoft followed suit with a totally hands free motion device for Xbox 360 ending this generation with all consoles on the same page.

This generation has had an abnormally long life cycle lasting about 7 years insted of the normal 5 year cycle, and as of this month, it’s been about a year sence Nintendo revealed the Wii’s successor titled “WII U“, a console shrouded in mystery. Nintendo is notorious for holding off on information for their products but the main focus so far on the system is the tablet like controller. So far they’ve displayed many attributes of the controller as the 6.2 inches of resistive touch screen display with 576p glazed on for resolution.The regular buttons that come with a standard controller are still there along with dual analog sticks, a front faceing camera for video chat, gyro sensors and many more things that’s yet to be announced. It seems Nintendo was yet again at the forefront of innovation until the 2012 E3 press conference when Microsoft unvieled the “smart glass”.

The smart glass is more so a softwere for the 360 and compatible with any and every tablet or smart phone laying around the house, breaking the restraints of buying a system and using just one type tablet controller talored specifically for the system. As Microsoft began the conference, they explained you would be able do things as watch a movie on your tablet then resume it on your TV. Now thats all fine and dandy, but then they get into how its also used as a second screen used to expand upon your gaming experiences. Jaw drops* such a blatent rip off of an ideal before the original ideal even was able to hit the streets. The race to not be left behind got a kick start and was already was underway.In this market it behooves developers to come with their own ideals so that people have reasons to buy and support different consoles.

Eventually the gaming industry may become a race to copy the next big thing and experiences may go back to being almost identical on every platform save for a few exclusive games. One of the many problems that pledged the Ps3 and 360 this generation was the almost duplicated game roster on each system, which was a good reason to have only owned one of them. With the gaming industry already taking a financial loss cloned experiences can be detrimental to gaming’s survival.Never the less at this phaze its really too eairly to say how exactly theses developments will affect the industry but fingers crossed that these next round of consoles all have a different type of uniqueness that nintendo started last generation. Keep your eyes open for gaming events as well as press conferences.

Wii U is scheduled for a Q4 2012 release date.