Oh Look! A Distraction!

Some of you may know Little Gamers. If you don't, I would highly encourage you to get acquainted. It is an extremely funny web comic, even if it is written by a Swedish guy! The reason all of this matters is this: I got linked to My Brute through him and am now hooked. Between it and Omegle, I am honestly never going to work again. The basic premises of the two are as follows:

My Brute is basically a senseless beat-em-up. Well, all beat-em-ups are senseless, but this one takes the senseless factor to the extreme. You don't even have to do anything! It's a fighting game without any human input! This might sound boring, but it really isn't. Well, it gets boring after a while, but not as soon as you might think.

Omegle will sound creeperish to you, but do not be discouraged! Basically, it's MSN, except with random strangers. You go on the website and you connect to someone else and you talk to them. They don't know who you are, you don't know who they are. And somehow it isn't creeperish. At all. Just today, I had an enjoyable conversation with an American (a very very rare occurrence), and one with a guy who was going to school in the town I was born in in England!

I would encourage anybody to give them both a try since distractions are :D!

~Setsanto

Who am I?

Today, I was asked an interesting question: what country do I most identify myself with?

I was about to say "I'm English!" and then proceed to pull out some scones, tea and rain just to ram the point home, but then I realized that I don't really think that I'm English. See, I was born there and I lived there until I was almost 6. Since that time, I have been back a total of once (three years ago). Nonetheless, up to this point, my standard answer to the above question was "England ftw" essentially. But then I realized something (10 years too late): I really don't feel English at all.

I can just see all of you optimists going "Woohoo, 1 down, only 194 to go!"; however, elimination is clearly not the way to go about this. As much as I would love to go into how unlike I am to the people in 193 countries, you and I both have better things to do. So, to cut to the chase, I don't think I really am from anywhere. That said, I think there is one way I can identify myself: I am European. I can't say that I feel any particular affinity or connection to one country or another, but I do feel a strong connection to Europe.

So at this point, I had been standing in place, staring into space for about a minute or so, and in a complete daze. As I slowly returned to the world of the living, I spied the poor sod that had asked me the question. I'm sure he thought I had some sort of brain defect when I looked up, said "Europe" and walked away. Well, either that or he spent the rest of his days wondering when exactly Europe became a country and why no one had told him this. "I knew there was something fishy going on when they adopted the Euro..."

~Setsanto

New Layout!

I ask of you, is my new layout awesome or is it awesome? Well, right now it isn't 100% amazing (my page element borders are not working, among other things...), but it's getting there. I adapted a theme called "Agua" for my needs, which was surprisingly hard since the guy that made the theme was Spanish O.o. If nothing else, I learned the Spanish word for content wrapper!

I must say that I struggled more with editing the code than I would care to admit. It has been a while since I have done anything decent in terms of web design/coding, so apparently I've forgotten a decent amount.

I really like the simplicity of the new design, though I might change the background (maybe a light brown? Or perhaps a light blue?). #FFFFFF is a little bright to say the least...but hey, it could be worse (I'm looking at you, #99FF33). I also might, in a fit of creativity, actually make a decent header (the penguins would, of course, stay), though this is extremely doubtful since not only are my fits of creativity rare, but they also rarely amount to anything!

~Setsanto

EDIT: Comments are working!