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.