In my previous post about Blizzard I alluded to having a different summer job.  This is it.I'm working on All Points Bulletin, which is basically Grand Theft Auto Online. If you're reading on my proper...

Spring had sprung in San Diego just as my 'winter quarter' finals had ended. After three months of relative grossness (cold winds and rain, not unlike a Texan winter), El Niño gave way and the cloudless...

Blake: Hey PMP, I really don't give a damn about you. PMP: Oh yeah? B-. Bam. How you like me now, muh'fucka? Blake: Hmm, two standard deviations down.. bottom 2.5%. Wow. PMP: Yeah, the Chinese...

To home I come! I've gotten a couple of emails asking about my travel schedule for the holiday season, so here it is: Dec. 12-18: Texas. Arlington, with a short trip to visit my brother. Dec. 19-26...

I'm going to Japan once more! I'm taking my dear friend Adam along for the ride, and he's been studying Japanese really hard, so let's show him a good time, eh?Details:April 9-12: TokyoApril 12-13...

Consider this the antithesis to the stressed-out, burned-out, depressed note I wrote a few months back. I still get messages about that post every now and again, and I'm happy to report that things...

Such was Aroon's title for the photo album of my trip to visit him in the grand old Silicon Valley, and the name just kind of stuck. This weekend I struck another of my lifelong to-dos from my list...

I'm a college graduate. 4 years of Plan II have come and gone, never to return. I'll miss this time, but I'm ready for what's next:July 28th: depart to Tokyo

Despite my awful interview, I was accepted to JET.I leave on July 30th, and arrive in Tokyo on August 1st for orientation.