Google Caused My Rock Band Addiction

by on January 25, 2008 · 7 comments

Thanks to Google, I am now addicted to the game Rock Band. I don’t own the game, but I do alternate between playing the demo at BestBuy in Pentagon City and playing the demo at the Gamestop across the street in the mall.

How can I prove that Google caused this addiction? Here I am playing Rock Band with Jillian Bandes of Roll Call in Google’s game room.

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Jill’s fake drum performance far exceeded my abilities at the fake guitar. Soon after this photo was taken a tech from Google’s New York offices schooled us on how to rock Rock Band and scored a 97% on a much more difficult setting. Thanks to Adam Kovacevich at Google for featuring my silly performance on Google’s policy blog.

On a more serious note, I’m looking forward to working with Google on some of the policy issues that we’ll likely confront in the coming year. CEI is of like minds with the monolith of Mountain View on issues like privacy and competition policy. But we also disagree on policies like network neutrality and the best way to liberalize spectrum in the U.S.

Google is a great company that has created an enormous amount of wealth. I hope that their DC offices focus on creating a freer market for them to operate within and that they move away from the standard Washington favor-seeking.

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About Cord Blomquist

Cord Blomquist spends most of his time pining for the singularity. To pass the time while waiting for this convergence, he serves as the New Media Manager at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Before landing this sweet gig, Cord hocked policy writing for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, toiled in the halls of Congress, and even worked in a crouton factory. In college, Cord spent his hours studying political philosophy and artificial intelligence, resulting in an unhealthy obsession with Lt. Commander Data. All of these activities will, of course, be viewed as laughable when he is ported from this crude meatspace into the nanobot cloud.

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  • Peabo Bryson

    So…who broke the bass pedal at the Pentagon City Best Buy? Enjoy Rocking out!

  • Peabo Bryson

    So…who broke the bass pedal at the Pentagon City Best Buy? Enjoy Rocking out!

  • http://addurl.flashh.in Deva

    Thank you for this post.Want to know more about addiction and De-addiction.

  • http://de-adiction.blogspot.com/2009/02/addictions-and-de-addiction-information.html Preethi

    I was an addict for 12 years and i was powerless over it and after 12 years now i am sober.Thank you for this post.

  • http://www.rockthisband.com Rock Band

    It sucks being showed up, my nephew can play expert songs around 90% on guitar, and he is 14. Makes my 30 year old self who can play medium level songs at 80-90% look like a bit of a fool. I feel your pain haha.

  • http://www.rockthisband.com Rock Band

    It sucks being showed up, my nephew can play expert songs around 90% on guitar, and he is 14. Makes my 30 year old self who can play medium level songs at 80-90% look like a bit of a fool. I feel your pain haha.

  • http://www.rockthisband.com Rock Band

    It sucks being showed up, my nephew can play expert songs around 90% on guitar, and he is 14. Makes my 30 year old self who can play medium level songs at 80-90% look like a bit of a fool. I feel your pain haha.

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