Hey, not sure what you had in mind for the guest blogging, but maybe this is worth expanding.

While I don't play video games (I get WAY too addicted!) I love watching other people play them for the reasons you cited. There is a merge now gonig on between art and science that probably hasn't existed since DaVinci.

I probably would have gone into movie special effects had I graduated 10 years earlier. When I graduated in 1997, computer effects were taking over, and I despise programmign (I'm more hardware electronics), so I knew even if I got a job in robotics, wouldn't have work for long. :(