Othernel Public Inc.

Bill Martin, you screwed up.

Now it’s time to make Amends. Hire the man above, soon!

If you need a reason, read this article.

It’s been a while since the last update, but there really hasn’t been too much going on.

It’s amazing how much of my life I get back when baseball and college football are finished. Though I just end up throwing that piece of my life right at my other loves.

On the drink front, I’ve been blessed recently. God saw it fit to take one of my favorite bars, and put a beer garden across the street from it. Truly inspiring.Also, on the bar front. If you ever see in the LES that says “Empanadas… Eat Late”, you should go in. 

So this is probably closer to being an actual rant than anything I’ve written so far, but when you work in an industry that you love, it becomes nearly impossible to ask for a gift around the holidays that you might like.  By the way, Othernel needs a new 360 headset… just saying. 

Oh, guess who backed into something called the Capital One Bowl. Yeah.  Nothing says championship season like Orlando on New Year’s.

Oh, and this… well this is just flat out funny.

So last week, Alwin was unenviable enough to leave his camera at my apartment after watching the state game. So me and the boys brainstormed over a couple pints how we could teach him to never do that again. We decided to fill his camera up with goofy pics, but we couldn’t figure out how we would attain that.

Finally, I decided to ask the bartender at the Ale House for a pen and paper and wrote “Alwin, you suck!” on it to see how many people we could get photos with while holding the sign. I guess the results speak for themself.

[editors note: none of these people had to be coerced into these photos. People jumped at the chance to flip off a camera and hold a sign proclaiming someone's suckitude]

I don’t think I need to say anymore.

So this is how it begins. We’ve put Holoween to rest and said goodbye to October, so we’re officially in the “Holiday Season”. In the game industry, this is when 95% of the awesome games come out.

I’ve done a pretty good job of barely playing games at home (just witness my paltry gamerscore) and as someone who handles games on a daily basis, it’s hard to really get excited about games that are coming out to the market. However, during the holiday season, all that gets thrown out the door, along with my social life and free time. I’ve even been preparing my apartment so that I can focus on putting all these games to bed in halfway decent time so that I’m not struggling with Super Mario Galaxy into the new year.

Yeah… pathetic.

This was one of our first somewhat tame nights in Shanghai. Every needed the rest, and the non-stop smoke was taking its toll on us. So we ended up getting taken to probably the best food I’ve had EVER in Shanghai by newly minted Couchsurfer Daniela and her boyfriend Thomas. Thanks you two!

We did make it to the Aquarium, though my attempt to swim with the Sharks was cut short by inconvenient trainers hours and the presence of like 4000 manta rays in the tank. Not this time!