http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/Lysenko en-us Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:52:09 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=329938 Lysenko The first part of this blog entry starts here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=329075 Edit: Please try to read part 1 first. While I try to offer context in part 2, much of what I have to say here refers back to part 1. In 1993, I was graduating from college, my first girlfriend (mentioned in my last post) had dumped me, and I had started a new job out in the mi... Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:11:41 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=329938 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=329075 Lysenko This is part 1. Part 2 is posted here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=329938 Part 3 is coming soon. ----------------------------------------------- So lately I've been working on a TV commercial featuring a pop song that I heard for the first time when I was twelve years old. My office partner, who's about my age, and I have both been freaking out about this a l... Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:15:36 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=329075 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=319703 Lysenko I'm wondering if I'm missing some big shift in language usage here. I have recently seen a lot of posters on internet forums, particularly younger ones, saying as For example: From the Diablo 3 beta feedback forum, someone posts which to me would be properly written as What's strange about this is that the topic for the post is "We need to be heard.... Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:01:46 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=319703 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=314194 Lysenko As a physics graduate working in visual effects, every now and then something particularly compelling in my work pushes other things aside, including (regrettably) Starcraft. Over the last couple of weeks, it's been the problem of, and tools for, fluid simulation. Simulating the motion of fluids is one of those areas that has gone from incredibly painful to remarkably accessible over the la... Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:56:54 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=314194 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=312057 Lysenko After spending season 5 in Platinum league, got demoted to Gold. My current record of league excursions now looks like: Copper (early beta) > Bronze (late beta) > Bronze (release) > Silver > Gold > Silver > Bronze > Silver > Gold > Platinum > Gold > Platinum > Gold Hey, there's a general upward trend there, right? :) I'm pretty clearly shooting my... Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:36:30 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=312057 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=298683 Lysenko So, about a year ago I bought a copy of SC2 for my 11-year-old half-brother. He's certainly bronze league material, and hasn't had a whole lot of practice, but he's learned a lot about the game and we have had some fun teaming up in team games vs. the computer and online. This Christmas, his younger brother, age 6, has been watching us play, and after a while insisted on trying the game him... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:48:33 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=298683 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=287211 Lysenko For a long while I have had an interest in the hidden mechanics of the matchmaking and ladder system in SC2. I've been in Gold league and below since release except for a brief stay in Platinum. At this point, on my main account, I've played about 3000 1v1 games since release. Anyway, I've found myself wondering if my having such a long game history has an impact on how easy or difficult it ... Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:44:05 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=287211 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=285544 Lysenko I play Zerg, with about 2800 games played since release. And, I'm gold league. I spent the first season in bronze and silver, the second in silver and gold, third I was promoted to platinum, then demoted to gold, where I am now. This is progress, but it's slow, mostly because my practice has been to hit the queue button without really analyzing my game much. Interestingly, when I have pause... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:42:44 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=285544 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=262520 Lysenko So I've been running SC2 since release on my 2007 Mac Pro, which runs it pretty well, but since then GPUs have gotten a LOT faster and I wanted something up to date to take advantage of it. I'd thought about just replacing the Mac Pro with one of the supposedly-upcoming Sandy Bridge replacements, but some recent car repairs got pretty expensive and I realized I wouldn't be able to justify th... Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:40:17 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=262520 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=230005 Lysenko This spring marks my fifteenth year working in the world of animation and visual effects, so I thought some might find the story of how that came to pass interesting. Before I go on here's my IMDB page. Graduation In the spring of 1992, three events happened nearly at once: I turned twenty-one, I graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a degree in Physics, and my girlfriend of four ye... Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:08:18 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=230005 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=227517 Lysenko OK, so I'm uploading around 3300 photos of my life from the past ten years to Flickr, since several of my friends are huge Flickr fans and use it heavily. I thought I'd like to share what I've been up to photographically with them. Here's a little context: I have had several periods in my life when I've been an active photographer, both documenting what my friends and I have been up to, an... Sun, 29 May 2011 08:09:00 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=227517 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=225017 Lysenko Today, I'm at one of the various Los Angeles County courts for jury service. Hopefully, I will not be selected for a trial. Twelve years ago, I was selected for a jury for a trial that lasted eight weeks, including deliberation. I feel like that was enough, but maybe that I haven't been called in the meantime means they thought that too. Fortunately, they have wireless, but, and this is... Sat, 21 May 2011 01:24:15 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=225017 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=204647 Lysenko As of today, my WoW account, which has been active for four years and 11 months, has expired. As of when I quit playing, which was about two months ago, I'd accumulated about 346 days played, meaning 8304 hours, or about four full-time work years. Aside from playing a lot more Starcraft 2, this has given me more time to get my social life back, as well as learn to improve my cooking and... Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:32:12 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=204647 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=170489 Lysenko Promoted from silver rank 1 to gold rank 1 in my new division, after almost 500 games in Silver. Nice to see some indication that I'm actually improving after all that practice... Too bad I have no way to tell how good or bad the new division is. Also, might have preferred being rank 95 platinum with some bonus points instead, but since the system's so opaque, who cares? I'll take what I ca... Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:25:26 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=170489 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=160169 Lysenko Just got this license plate last week. I figured the TL community might approve, or at least chuckle. It pretty effectively communicates that (a) I play Zerg, and (b) I play in a league where 6 pooling often wins the game. :) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:39:27 +0900 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=160169