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Maybe you've heard of potato smiles?

Tonight my mom fried up some potatoes but we ended up cutting them up into a variety of shapes and faces ourselves. I found it was a slightly less stressful substitute for pumpkin carving. Happy Halloween:

Of course, they were delicious, but I can say that somehow, they tasted better than usual.

Before 12:00am tonight

I'm holding myself to writing a post before 12:00am tonight and it's going to be a quick one. But quick is good. It's Christmas as I write this and I've felt a little bitter today over the fact that I saw no one today except my mother and brother. I guess I had  a nice enough day but I feel starved for social interaction of any sort as I always do. Two friends threw Christmas Eve parties last night and I went to both, but I still woke up feeling miserable today. I finished a book today though: "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins. A good book, it started humdrum but gradually quickened its pace. It's also book one in the trilogy(which came to an end this year). Okay, I shouldn't feel bad for myself because it's my fault I'm dreadfully lonely. Maybe I'll see other humans tomorrow. Who knows?

Knox - Knock The Balls Out!

Sean T. Cooper, one of my favorite flash game designers, just came up with something new. Knox. It's a classic game of marbles which up to 4 people can play. It's a great physics game, and I love physics games. The game has a classic interface for shooting the marble. Clicking on the shooter marble, you can increase power by moving outward and let go to shoot the marble in the direction of the mouse pointer. You get to see two things. Where your marble is heading, indicated by a green line, and where the the first other marble you collide with will head. The playing area is a nice wooden backdrop with a ring drawn on. The object of the game is to keep the shooter marble inside the ring while hitting all the other marbles out. The more marbles you shoot out at once the more points you score, each additional ball holds an accumulating bonus score. 10 for the first, 12 for the second, 14 for the third and so on. All in all, the game is very smooth and responsive, never jerky or glitchy, and it has impeccable physics which operate without a hitch either. I have only one complaint which is very minor at that. In between shooting, you have to wait for all the marbles to stop moving and the score to be tallied. It would make for much faster paced gameplay if one could click into the next round as soon as they had made their shot. Sean T. Cooper is also the designer of all the arcade style Boxhead games which rank in my book as some of the best games on the net.
This is a direct link to the game(a popup)
The Knox game page is here on Sean's site

Here we go again... More of me complaining.

I woke up at 2pm today. That always feels like shit. Maybe not as much as going to bed at almost 6am does though. It seems to be the case that I stop accomplishing anything productive after 12am. I have until midnight and then I basically just throw in the towel. I need to study badly, something I did a little bit of yesterday. Even so, it seems amazing to me that I stepped out of my comfort zone of social networking yesterday at all. Today my mom gave me a miniature intervention. I seem to live on facebook, twitter, twitter, blogger, and now steam and Newgrounds. Every day I seem to make a new account. The first step is admitting you have a problem. No I don't! Basically, I'm just obsessed with blasting myself across the internet. I really do have/had stuff to do today, but at least I'm writing.

I'm Completely Obsessed with Stick Arena!

First there was Stick Arena. And now comes Stick Arena Ballistic. This flash game is a 2D player-versus-player extravaganza. I love this game's graphics. As the title would suggest(strongly), everyone's avatar is a stick figure, but the game is set from a bird's eye view so all you get to see is the top of your player's head. There are various maps to play, ranging from relatively small to maps that are way to big to play in the 5 minutes that are allocated for each game. In this game you rely on your wits so everyone is on a level playing field. Gameplay is simple with the arrow keys or wasd used to move, and the mouse to aim and use the weapon. Their are five weapons in the totally free games: shotgun, AK-47, katana, baseball bat, sledgehammer and, handgun. In VIP games there are 6 more. VIP's pay monthly and can use the extra weapons. They can also let non-VIP users play on VIP maps and use VIP weapons by adding them to their "VIP list". There is an in-game chat as well as a chat in the lobby and the in-game chat seems to have a restricted character count. To move on to some of the game's low points, I'd have to say that it has more than a few. There are two big problems: hackers and glitching, which occur more than every other game. I've had trouble playing it on Google chrome, and the game specifically cites that it should be played with Internet Explorer. The hacking is most annoying when the hacker isn't getting enough votes to be kicked from the game. Before I sign off I'll say that the game is very good despite its downfalls, and it always keeps you coming back for more.

Direct Link To The Game(opens in new window/tab)

The Game's Page on XGen Studios

Snow! n_n

For some reason, I feel like if I don't make a blog post today, I'll never make another post in my life. Kind of a made up superstition really. I've been writing 750 words a day for the past 34 days with 750words.com, and I feel like I'm on a real roll with that, but I'm not confident with my ability to post regularly to my blog. I've pretty much finished fixing up a computer that had a virus and it'll be satisfying to get to hand it back, fixed like magic. It seems like all computers that have viruses also have Lime Wire. Puzzling, that people use Lime Wire even though it's riddled with viruses. It has one of the biggest reputations, in my opinion, for carrying viruses. I'm not going to write anything else tonight except that it's snowing outside and that's really great.

I Embarrass Myself Online

Ow! My lips are hurting(don't worry, they're really just annoying me mildly) because I didn't wear my face mask for some of the time I was outside today. Now, please don't be disappointed if you thought I was going to embarrass myself in this blog post. I don't plan on it, but make sure to laugh behind my back if I do slip up. It's 2:21... in the MORNING. So there's a large chance of that happening. I wanted to have some iced tea a minute ago, but decided to save my caffeine intake for tomorrow. I'm drinking water instead. I need to study desperately for class tomorrow. Chemistry fundamentals. Oh, god. I'm not going to complain. I finally began to understand a bit of my other class again, after not following anything for about two weeks. Was that complaining or announcing good news? A little of both? I've got 5 laptops on my hands right now. 1 doesn't have a hard drive and I'm not even sure if I got it past bios. 1 is running windows 98. I don't think the battery on either of them hold a charge. I've got two Toshibas with Vista. One is fixed, the other one just got sent in today by an aunt. Cracked screen, but that's it. And last but not least, is mine, which I am using right now. Running Windows 7 currently, although I often play with Linux and always feel guilty for not using it full time. Of course, I'm still looking forward to messing around with and fixing all of the laptops. Now: time for bed. This post was too long per usual. Good morning to all you crazy people who wake up now. And good night to all you NORMAL people like me!