Category: Entertainment
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New Years 2007
After I got back from the cruise, I had about 2 hours to eat and get dressed up in either a suit or a costume for the big new years bash being thrown at the Braintree House. I thought dressing in a suit and consuming alcohol would be a poor combination so while I was…
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Brood War Rising
As of this past Friday, January 26th, 2007, I am giving all challengers a three week head start before I install Starcraft on my laptop. Get your Firebats, Templar, and Hydralisks ready because on February 9th, I’ll be setting that race to random and taking on whatever you guys throw at me. So if your…
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Nerd Talk
This is what toy nerds talk about online. The figures in question are Hercules, Ultimate Iron Man and Planet Hulk. All from the Marvel Legends line from Hasbro. Session Start: Sun Jan 28 17:33:01 2007 [17:33] Me: annihilus’ wing is kinda neat [17:33] Brendan: you opened herc! [17:33] Me: and iron man and hulk [17:34]…
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No rest for the wary
I’ve been pretty busy lately and have had lots of stuff to blog, but just haven’t gotten to it. I hope to address that in the near future, but I’ll be going away again for a week. This time my family is going on a cruise leaving San Juan, Puerto Rico and visiting such hot…
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Halloween 2006: Captain America Part 5
Ok this isn’t really part 5. Ed sent me a picture from the party, though, that I happen to like a lot. I am genuinely happy and don’t look too much like a fool. This was immediately after I won the table radio in the raffle. I am 2 for 2 for the raffles so…
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Modern Day History Lessons
Wandering aimlessly from youTube video to youTube video, as I do often, I came across the most fascinating series of clips that I have found yet. I sat there for all ten minutes of the first clip, absolutely enthralled by what this man had to say. He is a 94 year old World War 2…
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Halloween 2006: Captain America Part 4
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 When last we left our patriotic guise, we were painting the white stripe of the shield with its first coat of white paint.
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Halloween 2006: Captain America Part 3
You can see Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In Part 2, I riveted a handle and arm strap on to the sled, so I could hold it with my left arm. I still needed to address the whole sewing obstacle and paint the sled.
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Halloween 2006: Captain America Part 2
When last we left our patriotic costume, we had just finished drawing all the details onto the front of the shield and then went to bed. Next on the list of things to do was the handles.
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Halloween 2006: Captain America Part 1
For some reason, about a month and a half ago I decided that I absolutely had to be Captain America for Halloween. For many weeks, I plotted and looked at pictures of the icon to see how I could make the costume work without it looking campy.