Monthly Archives: June 2010

Weekend update

This was another busy weekend with the June model build gathering, meeting with the Gunpla World Cup (aka BAKUC) competition sponsors to hammer out final details, and finally getting to finish up the Mitzuki commission repair job. The build gathering was one of the smaller gathering in comparison to the past few months. It was a nice change of pace, I got to spend some time working on my own projects. Manny showed up and brought along a finished Akatsuki kit that he had picked up from the day that we had 200+ kits donated I think he did a damn good job being his second gunpla kit ever.

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More information for the United States BAKUC 2010

Just received this information tonight, so posting this up. There may be minor tweaks, but if that happens, I’ll make the necessary updates.

GUNPLA World Cup 2010 – U.S. Championship

The United States Championship of the larger Bandai GUNPLA World Cup will be held initially at a number of regional events at conventions in the United States in 2010, with the finals winners being determined from the pool of regional winners. The Bandai GUNPLA World Cup is a yearly contest held amongst modelers using Bandai “Gundam” kits to show off their modeling skills. Competition will be held in several categories and age brackets.

Main Category

This category is designed for modelers who want to push their skills to the limit by “modding” (modifying) Gundams, as well as creating dioramas that tell a story (optional). The GUNPLA World Cup is held once a year, where top modelers from countries such as Japan, China, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Italy, USA, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia and Malaysia battle it out for the title of GUNPLA World Cup Champion. The US winners in the open, junior and group categories will be invited to participate in the World Cup held in Hong Kong.
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Dry aging steaks at home

A little over a week ago, while in bed watching late night tv, I stumbled upon a good eats episode that focused on aging steaks at home using a porterhouse steak. I trust Alton Brown, and from his shows, I have yet to be pointed in the wrong direction, so I kept the idea in the back of my mind. Then, an opportunity presented itself, and off to the experimentation we go. So here we are with another installment of cooking with Clem. Below, I will explain how the steak in the pictures went from bright red to a very dark red in a span of about 9 days by dry aging the steak.

Coincidentally enough, a week prior to seeing the Good Eats episode, one of my friends had asked if it was possible to dry age steaks at home, and if I knew the process if one existed. I told him that I didn’t know, and that it would probably be difficult. Well, a few short weeks later, my opinions about the difficulty is completely changed, and now I know how to dry age my own steaks at home.

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Update for the past 5 weeks

So it’s been a full month and a few weeks since I last posted anything. It’s currently 3 in the bloody morning, and that stupid nap I took this afternoon has pretty much prevented me from falling asleep since I climbed into bed a few hours ago. So I guess now is as good a time as any to log my life events for the past 5 weeks. So what could happen that would throw a nice little wrench into my daily routine? I met a girl; well, to be fair, I was introduced to a girl. Okay, this is one of those personal all about me posts, so anyone looking for model building crap and what not, move along. Oh and for you readers, this will be bloody long and probably utterly uninteresting – so you have been warned.

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