Oh, "Starcraft"...

Cracked.com recently posted an article on "Starcraft". Upon reading this, I realize now that I need to step away from my computer and various other game consoles and get a life. I just don't know what to say about some of these people. It baffles me that a game that's actually pretty fun to play could have catapulted itself to such unnecessary heights. It's just a video game: an executable document on your computer meant to entertain yourself and, with online access, entertain a friend or a stranger for a short time. "Starcraft" is an extremely well-designed game for its time, and it ages very very well but it's not worthy of this.

The icing on the cake of this article is a fellow named "idra", who flies into a rage if he loses and demands an apology if you select the "Terrans" as your race. He looks like this. I am now convinced that every whiny, nasal-voiced rat who screams in anger at me or anyone else over Xbox Live looks just like this guy. In fact, I find it hilarious to imagining him attempting to smack-talk someone in the face who is definitely bigger and stronger than he is.

The moral of the story: Don't act bigger online than you can in real life. Sooner or later it will catch up to you.

You know, I wonder what would happen if "Starcraft" fell through and these guys were all forced to find actual jobs...

25th Anniversary of the Buckyball Day!

Before I begin, I'd like to point out that today is the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the Buckyball. Feel free to show some respect to the best molecule of carbon in the Universe!

I've noticed that my room has fallen into disarray. I can't really help it, since being a packrat and a mild slob is written into my genes. But I'm hoping soon to find some way of organizing my living quarters and all the things I've collected over the years. Perhaps this article could help out.

I have been doing something to organize my room and make it look fascinating. Based on the game "Mirror's Edge", I've devised a room that's color coded. The main components of the room will be white with hard-angle, black lacquer wooden furniture, and each section of the room will contain specific color coding. For example:

• Blue indicates my sleeping space, and accordingly comforts and personal hygiene.
• Green indicates my crafting area and anything that expands my mind, like books.
• Purple indicates entertainment, and in paperwork, travel expenses.
• Orange indicates my workspace, such as my desk, where I do my paperwork.
• Red is the color of anything that requires my immediate attention, such as the colored tin where I place my cell phone and wallet and a red binder where I keep all of my important documents.

Perhaps once I get my room completely finished, I'll include fancier elements, such as color-coordinated accents for the different parts of my room and even mild neon lights that shine from the backs of certain parts of my room. For now, however, I'm content to keep getting furniture and maybe hacking it every once in a while.

At the store where I work, we sell these tin lunchboxes which are now on sale for ninety-nine cents. They're not much to look at right now, but I'm hoping that I can take the four I've snagged and transform them into something Dieselpunk for my niece and nephews.

An Introduction!

I suppose the best place to begin would be with the basics. My name is Timothy Bussard, aka "Ronbun Kontan". I'm a 24 year old with a college degree, a big heart, and a little bit of trouble with common sense. I was born in northern Indiana, but I'm currently living in Roanoke, Virginia with my best friend, Joseph Ciotti and his family. I work at an arts and crafts store named A.C. Moore, though I'm hoping to go to college soon and get myself a degree in Accounting. I do have an associates degree in Computer Graphics Technology, which I got when I was still living in Indiana. I could say more, but I think it would be best if I let any extra information pop out while I'm writing these entries.

I should probably explain my screen name. A while back I was looking for a new Xbox Live name to use. I wanted to do something with my love for origami and papercraft, so I went with the name "Paper Soul". It was taken, so Joey suggested that I translate it into Japanese. With some help from a friend of his, we found a variety of words for "paper" and "soul". We finally hit the jackpot with "Ronbun" (paper) and "Kontan" (soul). I wasn't entirely sure of the name, since it did sound a little funny. I got used to it, though, and it's stuck with me ever since.

I began this blog ages ago as a way to state my peace and lay my opinion on the web in my own way. Though that didn't pan out quite as I expected it to, namely that I didn't write anything. I didn't (still don't) have the discipline to hold a journal with any regularity, but I suppose I could learn to develop it over time. It won't be pretty, but it will be a way for me to just write a few things and maybe get some folks to answer a few questions I might have.

As of right now, though, there's not a whole lot I could write about (at least nothing that wouldn't last several pages and maybe take several hours to write). I'll do my best to keep posting, and if you've stumbled upon this blog, I pray that I've written other things you find interesting!

Afterthought: Interpreting dreams is like sifting through droppings. They're leftover from what the brain has been digesting throughout the day. You can get a lot of information from droppings: what's being digested and what's not and even the health of the person. Just remember that you can often get better results by studying directly the person.