Today, after yet another conversation with co-workers about their 2v2 ladder progression, I actually thought about selling plasma to be able to get myself a copy.

I’m not an addict, I just love Starcraft and currently all my friends are playing it without me *help*. I love my wife and my new life. But I have got to find a way to get a copy of SC2 =)

Congrats.

Now the economy isn’t doing so well so I am not making any money doing custom toys, and have begun developing Web pages, but the jobs are sporadic. I am dieing to play Starcraft 2 when the first Star Craft came out I was in Art School and this was my favorite game.

I then hitch hiked across country, and the first thing I did when i got an apartment was build a new computer, and install Starcraft and Counterstrike. Eventually I got sponsored to play Counterstrike, and stopped playing Starcraft. I continued to enjoy the thrill of playing Counterstrike through Diamond Multi Media Sponsorship until the retail version of Counter-Strike was released.

Seriously.

Now, it’s incredibly embarrassing, but at a certain point early in my, still young, culinary career, I was spending my nights obsessively playing LAN Starcraft with my room mates. Anybody who has played Starcraft understands that at a certain point, the game boils down to your raw ability to multi task and manage several different aspects of the game at once. One night I was at work, and I started to think of the 3 steaks on the grill as 3 groups of marines currently under construction, waiting to attack. While my marines were building I was having a conflict with a squash, dicing as quickly as I could so I could move on to preparing the garnishes for my steak which were, of course, upgrades for the steak (marines.)

My evenings at work continued like this, and it was quite unsettling and made me feel pretty ridiculous. However, I had a noticeable improvement in my overall speed and technique. Dishes were coming out faster then they ever had before. And so, I suppose it’s all sub conscious at this point. I don’t think about it anymore, but perhaps the bread in the oven still are Battlecruisers under construction while I’m plating some fettuccine alfredo (a sneak attack not meant to destroy, but distract, and buy me time i.e. keep the customer happy,) and ALWAYS cooking pasta, because you need it for the entire service, much like SCVs.

Also, since I am a cook, i’m incredibly broke and NEED THIS GAME!

For my career, of course.

I just had to give it to his blend of hard science, comics and non-illustrated prose. Truevcu, you’ll be getting an e-mail with details momentarily.

When I was much younger, (I’m 21 now) my parents bought me a 6-player x-men arcade cabinet, for about $300. This was around the time that arcades were beginning to die in the mid 90s. My local arcade was closing so that’s part of the reason my parents were able to get it for so cheap.

Anyway, it has been in a few parts in my garage for several years…until now. I decided to bring it back inside and reassemble it, and to my amazement, the thing still works!

It works almost flawlessly, but i will try to do some work on the speakers (they can cut out from time to time).

As you can see from the following picture, the cabinet is FREAKING HUGE, and I will eventually have to move it out of my room…at some point…maybe.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Spike1001/1.jpg

I think I’m doing a great service to nerds everywhere by keeping the spirit of such games and the memories of arcade-goers alive. I hope to add a few more cabinets to my “collection” in the future.

P.S. You guys are welcome to come play it! :P

She came over one day while I was in the middle of a game on my PC, and instead of the usual whining that most girls did, she just whips out her DS and sits on the couch playing Zelda.

So I decided to keep her around for a while.

Here’s a sample of my work: http://badj.tumblr.com/post/92420810/dress-purples-not-dress-blues

December 2009 is the year I put down the brush and picked up an Xbox 360 controller.

Something had to give so: http://badj.tumblr.com/post/616975568/why-there-are-no-new-painted-models