Never Too Old for a PJ Party

Well as my winter break from school is fast approaching its end, I have collected a great many pictures and videos to share with my vast* blog audience. For this particular post, I have a video taken from the pajama party thrown by my good friend Tyler Glass (with help from his friends and family, of course). It should be noted that this video was taken close to the end of the night (somewhere around 2:00am, as far as anyone knows). After many hours of too much fun, this is what becomes of my friends and me. Enjoy!

Anyway, thanks for watching. I'm gonna get back to making other videos that I have recently taken so be sure to stop back soon and check them out!
*The term "vast" is an exaggeration and in no way is a true descriptor for this blog's audience. 

A few of my favorite things.

Well, Christmas time is upon us (it's actually Christmas Eve right now as I type this) and that means I am not in school at the moment which also means that I am back in my hometown of Sheldon, Iowa. This also means that Christmas music is constantly played on the radio, which is how I chose the title to this particular blog post because I heard this song twice today. Although, I will say I never knew that song from The Sound of Music was considered a Christmas tune until today, but that's beside the point.

Anyway, to further the chain, this means that the couple of weeks surrounding Christmas will be full of eating, drinking, and general merriment. For me, one facet of the general merriment is the sport of airsoft. For those of you who don't know, airsoft is a game similar to paintball in which players on opposite teams use "toy" guns to eliminate each other from the game (the term "toy" being used very loosely). The basic differences between the two sports are that airsoft guns are much more realistic looking than painball markers and shoot plastic BBs instead of paintballs. My friends and I enjoy playing airsoft very much and plan on having our first ever "snowy battle" in the next week.

To get myself even more pumped for the upcoming battle, I decided to do a little project to make myself some "snow camo." I bought a cheap, white, twin sized bed sheet, sewed and cut it to fit my needs, and then used spray paint to make it awesome. Below are progression pictures as well as the final product being worn by yours truly:

Fighting Carp Rugby Website

Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog. Since I'm done with my mass communications class for which I had this blog, I've decided to keep it going as my own personal blog. So, for my first post since the class ended, I decided I would promote the new website for the SCSU Men's Rugby team.

As a 4th year member of the team, it is exciting to finally see some work being done to the website which has not been updated since my freshman year. With the recently elected webmaster Kent Schaefer at the helm of the website building, the Carp finally have a good looking site to promote the team. I encourage all of you (the one or two that end up reading this) to take a look at the new and improved website and maybe we'll see you at a game or two this coming spring. Visit the site here.

That's it for now. Thanks for reading and I'll catch you all next time on The Chris Wagner Blog.

Looking Back...

Here we are at the end of the semester after what seems like a very short few months. I have written a lot about all kinds of things relating to media convergence and I hope my audience and fellow classmates have learned as much as I have. This week, with my final blog for my Comm 404 class, I am going to run through the semester and revisit our journey through the wonderful world of media convergence.

One of the first things we talked about was Clay Shirky’s book, Here Comes Everybody. The most interesting part of Shirky’s book, for me, was this quote: