Like the title says, I had an impromptu disappearance from the blog for a week or so. I’m not quite sure what happened, but I think I was mistakenly kidnapped and wound up naked with 20,000 smelly NEETs. After a daring escape using Macgyver-like ingenuity with a paper clip, a roll of duct tape and a memo pad, I’ve returned from my unplanned absence…

What? You don’t believe my story? Well fine. I’ve been busy studying for my finals and have pretty much stayed away from the interweb and all its distractions which includes anime, blogging, looking at hentai, etc. I’ve briefly returned to do this little filler post explaining my absence that no one cared about or noticed.

Hm oh yes. I did stray from my studying regimen to buy The Orange Box on sale for $10 and play some Team Fortress 2. I’m not an FPS gamer by any means, but it was frentic and chaotic fun. There’s Portal and Half-Life 2 as well. I’m taking my time with Portal, and HL2 is pretty much a throw-in that won’t get much play time. I’m still a TF2 newbie but if anyone wants to play with me, I’m noirsword on Steam. Be sure to give me your name too so I can add you. This is also my AIM, so if you want to contact me that way to coordinate a match, feel free to do so.

PS: This pretty much translates to free kills while I learn the ropes.

The internet is counterproductive for people like myself that are easily distracted by novelty and shiny things. Case in point, today’s original objective was to catch up on some shows, but I’ve spent the better part of an hour playing with Akinator, a little web applet that uses inductive reasoning magic to predict what person or character you’re thinking about. I’ve mostly been throwing all manner of anime and game characters from Kagami Hiiragi to Travis Touchdown at Akinator, and it’s been pretty dead on about 90% of the time. The database if fairly large, so see if you can outwit the Akinator with an obscure character if you have nothing better to do. I’ll probably continue to waste more time with this until the novelty wears off.