Blog Layouts

Yeah, I've realized that the layout of my blog is rather plain and traditional, so I might need some people to direct me to some decent layouts. It's not that I don't enjoy the simplicity of my current one; just that I'd rather stray away from the layouts that many others that use similar, if not the same, layout as mine. I really don't have the time to code my own, so I'll just have to find something on the web. Any suggestions would be nice though...?

Phoenix Wright

I needed something to distract myself, so I thought of the one-and-only, amazing Phoenix Wright. Despite first appearances of a rather silly yet strategical game, he, as well as his rivals and allies give amazingly insightful quotes. Again, the only purpose of this post is to steer myself away from my problems in the world outside of games... and for entertainment purposes. Here are some of my favorites. Some may be humorous, others may be serious, and others yet are actually quite insightful and might actually make you think. Without further ado:

• "Just my luck... An assassin with a conscience. Who would've figured...?" --Phoenix Wright
• "And their fate is to live with the knowledge of their guilt on their shoulders." --Shelly De Killer (the assassin with a conscience)
  
• "Sink or swim... The only way through is forward!" --Phoenix Wright
• "Your... precious... UUUUURNNN!!" --Adrian Andrews (oh wow)
  
• "Life doesn't end with the closing of a case." --Lana Skye
• "And even though the weather outside is gorgeous today, it's raining inside my heart..." --Phoenix Wright
• "I am not totally confident here, but I know I must press on, no matter what!" --Phoenix Wright
• "I know the path I have walked. You don't need to tell me." --Miles Edgeworth
• "There's a sad feeling in the air, now that the party's over..." --Phoenix Wright
• "Even if the whole world turns against me, this is one fight I can't give up on!" --Phoenix Wright
• "But have I just run out of luck this time...? Is all our hope for naught...?" --Phoenix Wright
• "Why are you speaking in riddles all of a sudden...?" --Phoenix Wright (to Mia Fey)
  
• "OBJECTION!" --Self explanatory
• "I feel as if... Something inside me has died." --Miles Edgeworth
• "I can't forgive myself for what I've done... And no one else should forgive me either!" --Miles Edgeworth
• "...Zvarri! The truth has once again been elegantly revealed to me!" --Luke Atmey
  
• "I am sorry to learn you are no longer that person." --Judge
• "Why is it... That all I want to do lately is cry?" --Phoenix Wright
• "Why is it... I suddenly feel like I want to scream?" --Phoenix Wright
• "I set my ATM card's number to '0001' because I'm number one!" --Manfred von Karma
• "...and the world just got a whole lot crueler..." --Phoenix Wright
• "...I ate it." --Phoenix Wright
• "I'm such a fool... It took me all this time to realize it." --Lana Skye
• "No one can change the past. The only thing we can do is strive to make up for our mistakes. Why must we make up for our mistakes, you ask? Because in doing so... we can find the way back to our path. And once we've found our path, we can move on from our past mistakes toward a brighter future." --Phoenix Wright (this is my favorite)

I've accumulated a list far longer than this, but these are the highlights and among some of my favorites. Now here comes my testimonial/rant... zomgphoenixwrightisanamazinggameandithinkallofyoushouldgetitandplayit,becauseitwillgiveyourperpectionoftheworldawholedifferentangle, andyoumightstartevenapproachingsituationswithalittlemorerationalitythanbefore, andthinkthingsthroughfirst,asihavelearnedfromthis. SOGOPLAYPHOENIXWRIGHT! [/addiction]

Irony.

So, lately I've been doing a lot of thinking. When someone is given a long time to think, think harder, and rethink, they start to notice many smaller details of life that they may not have registered before. I've always found a fascination with the stranger half of life, namely, irony in its pure, most ironic form. I would insert some lame pun about iron (Fe) and irony due to our current science unit about the Periodic Table of Elements, but the inspiration is repelling me like same-pole magnets. (Whoops I think I made that one too vague. Fe Co Ni ring any bells? If it doesn't then good... now you know that I'm the only one going insane.)

Anyway, so... about irony. I've began to notice so much of it nowadays that I feel as if it's always been around me; I've just never taken the time to think about it. I don't know the official definition of irony, but it goes something like this: A form of "humor" (humor as some may call it... I personally don't find it funny at all; simply intriguing to notice and quite amus-ing. Ahh stupid science unit.) that occurs as a result of something else that is contrary to that other thing. I really don't know how to explain it... You really have to experience it yourself. Since this is a public blog (that no one reads anyway, but that's off the point), I can't go into my usual violent rants about irony. But I will say the following: Iron[y] is all around you... And if you ever happen to have the time to go searching for it, you don't have to look very far. Just think of what's happened in the past few hours, or days, or weeks... You're bound to find tons of examples.

My final words of nonsense (I've thought of way too many of these lately)-- Take an iron, add a why, and you have irony.