My favourite game developer, Blizzard Entertainment, announced today their next game in front of a horde of screaming Korean fans: StarCraft II.

Watch the cinematic trailer that comes up in the flash intro (or the embedded video in this post). Just watch it. I haven’t felt this excited since World of Warcraft was announced six years ago. We all know how that ended up (I don’t play World of Warcraft these days), but I did have some really wonderful times with it in the beginning. I still play the occasional Warcraft III game and I may bump up my gameage in the coming weeks since school is defeated.

On another note, I started coding up a money tracker application to make sure that I am making more money than I am spending, and to guilt myself into eating out less. I just wanted to mention that here so when I get lazy and stop working on it, I will look back and feel bad.

Update: Embedded the video in the post. You can download the original here.

(Photos courtesy of Andrew)

The weekend I moved in, two weeks ago, I had my Housewarming Party Alpha. People showed up, helped me unpack, we hung out and had some dinner. The second weekend, one week ago, I had my Housewarming Party Beta. At this point, I had some furniture that I needed to try out on some people just in case it sprouts arms and starts chasing them around with a shard of broken glass. This weekend, I was supposed to have a final housewarming party with everybody else, but… I’m all partied out. So I’m going to follow the hip trend of announcing a beta as the final product.

There’s a bunch of you people who wanted to come and missed out — I’m really sorry. You’re all welcome to drop by at your whim, as long as I am home. Or you can just hang out in the lobby or something… but then you wouldn’t be able to try out my new ridiculously awesome beanbag chair.

For those of you who don’t talk to me on a regular basis, work is going well. I just completed my second week, and it’s very likely that there will be a third week, and possibly even a fourth. My biggest worries about starting this job were unfounded. My machine is awesome, I can install whatever I want on it, and the kind of work they have me doing is the kind that I excel in. Of course, there is a ton of learning involved, which I very much enjoy. There’s nothing quite like reading documentation of various Python packages for several hours and getting paid for it. I know I’m a weirdo, but I enjoy that kind of stuff.

Things are great, blah blah blah. I am going to try and avoid posting about my work and personal life in the future. Maybe I’ll write something that is actually insightful. We’ll see. I go do my laundry, for now.