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		<title>What do you do when you have an unexpected singing partner?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/01/what-do-you-do-when-you-have-an-unexpected-singing-partner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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Josh Williams was performing the Bluegrass song &#8220;Mordecai&#8221; when a little bird decided to land on his guitar! It&#8217;s not clear if the bird actually sang along, it might be he just wanted to get closer so he could hear better, or maybe he had a backstage pass and got ahead of himself!  At any rate, Williams kept his cool and continued the song to the end, except he couldn&#8217;t play his guitar! Check the excitement around 1:45 in the video!

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		<title>Crowboarding!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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You&#8217;ve probably already seen this video, but if not, this is a Russian crow that has figured out how to &#8220;snowboard&#8221; down a snowy roof using some kind of miniature inner-tube-looking thing!
According to an article in Scientific American, &#8220;it’s further evidence that corvids (along with some species of parrots and other social birds) appear to engage in play-like behaviors.&#8221;
C&#8217;mon, guys, this bird is not just &#8220;playing,&#8221; he&#8217;s shredding that slope like a pro!  Enjoy the video!

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		<title>Quickest personality test</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here, for your enjoyment, a very quick test to determine your personality:

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		<title>The Cello Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More good music from the cellist guy in the Piano Guys duo, playing a beautiful Beethoven tune originally written for the cello.  Here he plays eight different parts and blends them together in perfect eight-part harmony.
Enjoy!

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		<title>Okay, these guys are just way too good&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/12/okay-these-guys-are-just-way-too-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across these guys when I saw this really neat video on Youtube.  &#8220;The Piano Guys&#8221; are a couple of musicians that re-do popular music with piano and cello and other instruments.  They use them to re-interpret the music as well, as in the &#8220;Cello Wars&#8221; video, which also has fun with the cello artist playing both the &#8220;good&#8221; Jedi and the &#8220;evil&#8221; Sith on dueling cellos.  Look for the appearance of &#8220;Darth Vader&#8221;&#8230;

One of the other videos I saw had the two guys entertaining a group of older folks at a retirement community, playing the &#8220;Linus and Lucy&#8221; theme from the &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; TV specials.  The guys have a lot of fun getting into the music, and the residents get into it, too.  It&#8217;s sweet to see the smiles on their faces, and watch them get up and dance!  It&#8217;s even better when you see the congo line, including ...]]></description>
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		<title>AnimeUSA 2011 Last day pics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pictures from the third and last day of AnimeUSA 2011.  Kind of a shame, there has been an anime convention in Crystal City since at least 1997, and this will be the last one for the foreseeable future. I went to my first one, Katsucon 4 I think it was, in 1998, and had only missed a couple there after that.  Ah, well, the price of growth, they just got too big to be handled in the Hyatt.  I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll have as much problem next year, since it looked like this year&#8217;s attendance was down.  Not as much disposable income lately&#8230;
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		<title>AnimeUSA Day 2, More pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/11/295/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, look, it&#8217;s more pictures!  These are from Day 2 of AnimeUSA 2011, taken Saturday the 19th.  More pictures than Friday, but then again there were more things and people to take pictures of! Even pictures of people taking pictures! 
If you see yourself in one of them, please leave a comment!
NOTE: click an icon for a picture, and click a picture for a larger version!
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		<title>Pictures from AnimeUSA 2011 Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here are some pictures from Day 1 of the AnimeUSA convention 2011, held in Crystal City.  Enjoy, and if you see yourself in one of them, please leave a comment!
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		<title>It&#8217;s coming, the Geek Singularity!</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/11/its-coming-the-geek-singularity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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This webcomic, &#8220;Weregeek&#8221;, is one of my favorites, mainly because it deals with all kinds of nerdy, geeky, fanboy things, like RPGs, sci-fi, games, comics, etc. The characters are all familiar tropes, but the creator has a lot of fun putting them into unusual and amusing stories (the Halloween arc had the characters re-creating a Scooby Doo-type episode during a midnight horror movie show!). She has a somewhat continuing story concerning a shadowy organization that is trying to eliminate all nerds and geeks, by brainwashing them into &#8220;normality&#8221; (perish forbid!), but the characters are learning to fight back by enhancing their &#8220;inner geek&#8220;! The title of the comic, &#8220;Weregeek&#8221; is a play on &#8220;werewolf&#8221;, but refers to a &#8220;normal&#8221; guy who discovers an urge to play Dungeons and Dragons, one night when the moon is full! He finds that he likes role-playing games when he stumbles across the rest of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting The Oomphalapompatronium!</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2011/11/oomphalapompatronium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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Now, if this thing doesn&#8217;t make you want to go out to the garage and throw together some kind of music-making thingamajig, I don&#8217;t know what would!

Apparently this guy, Leonard Solomon, makes all kinds of musical instruments out of, well, stuff. He gives performances of his musical and geeky machinery, since at least 1985. Check out the other videos on his page!
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