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		<title>Avengers: Disassemble!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across this wicked little gem of an animation by a young animator named Junaid Chundrigar. He has a fantastic comic style, and he really skewers the biggest Marvel superheroes in this short.  Some of the things he shows the characters doing, you just know that&#8217;s exactly what would happen if they  weren&#8217;t in comic books!
From his blog, he&#8217;s working as a professional animator on a couple of projects, and I have no doubt we&#8217;re going to see great things from this young man!  Check out the video (and look for the cameo by Stan the Man!):
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		<title>Crotchety old computer geek and the horse-drawn computers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/05/crotchety-old-computer-geek-and-the-horse-drawn-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 04:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well now if this don&#8217;t beat all, I done run acrosst a fellow old-timer on this here Internet thang, and he&#8217;s done told it like it was, fer sure!
Well, he ain&#8217;t that old, not near as old as me, and he only goes back to round about the turn of the century, but I do admire his pluck back then, what with them cranky old coal-fired CPUs and what-not.
Check out what he has to say about &#8220;them good ol&#8217; days&#8230;&#8221;
UPDATE:  Holy smokes it&#8217;s a McCainpede!  or a McCainslide.  Or something not quite an Instalanche..
Many thanks to Robert Stacy &#8220;The Other McCain&#8221; for the pingback, I woke up and checked my site stats out of curiosity and great googly moogly!  I appreciate the ACK, definitely!
Anyone who&#8217;s come here from there, I have to warn you I&#8217;m not using this site for much in the way of politics, other than the very ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mom&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/05/mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 08:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was my Mom, Delphy Diseker. It&#8217;s the 15th Mother&#8217;s Day since she passed away, and I felt like making a small tribute to her here.

Delphy Jane Hill was born in November, 1916.
She was the youngest child of Andrew Johnson and Anna Lexonia Hill.
Andrew was a coal miner,
and so Mom grew up in the coal mining camps of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee.
She was a shy girl,
but she grew into a very headstrong woman.
My uncle Earl once said of her that &#8220;she would argue with a fencepost,&#8221; she was that strong-willed.
It must have been one of the things that attracted my Dad to her, since he was just about as determined and strong-willed too.  Mom and Dad married in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, but Dad never found a job he didn&#8217;t want to do, although coal mining was his first joy.  Mom worked hard both at home, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Early Mother&#8217;s Day gift of cute baby pics, for all you Moms out there!</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/05/early-mothers-day-gift-fo-all-you-moms-out-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 23:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, since tomorrow is Mother&#8217;s day, I thought I&#8217;d pass on to everyone out there who&#8217;s a mother a little gift of cute pictures that I stumbled across the other day. I have no idea what trail of links I followed to get here, but here is a slide show of different babies in crazy, wacky, and just plain &#8220;how is that even possible?&#8221; sleeping positions. Guaranteed &#8220;awww&#8221;-worthy cute, or your money back!
if you think this one&#8217;s cute you ain&#8217;t seen nothin&#8217;, yet!
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		<title>&#8220;Super Best Friends Forever&#8221;: hilarious new show?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/05/super-best-friends-forever-hilarious-new-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good grief, where the heck have I been that I haven&#8217;t seen this?  Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting to watch TV lately, so things like this &#8220;Super Best Friends Forever&#8221; thing goes on the air behind my back.  It&#8217;s a conspiracy, I tells ya!
So, apparently this is a series of comedy shorts about three of the &#8220;girls&#8221; of the DC comic universe, Supergirl, Batgirl, and Wonder Girl, who are the &#8220;Super Best Friends&#8221; of the title. The shorts air as part of the &#8220;DC Nation&#8221; series on Cartoon Network.  Other shorts apparently are centered on other characters from DC comics, like the Teen Titans, Animal Man, Plastic Man and others.
In &#8220;SBFF&#8221; the three girls get into adventures like all superheroes do, but this is a comedy, so the humor takes precedence.  I found the show through this short, where Kara (Supergirl) is staying with her cousin ...]]></description>
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		<title>Plume: a supernatural Western webcomic</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/04/plume-a-supernatural-western-webcomic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now another thrilling installment of my webcomic reviews!  Caution, there be spoilers here, best if you read the comic archive first&#8230;
I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for Westerns, but I&#8217;ve also always had a special place for fantasy and science fiction stories.  So, when I happen upon another web comic that turns out to be a Western with elements of fantasy, and has a cute, spunky girl as the main character to boot, well I&#8217;m sold!  &#8221;Plume&#8221; is the name of this comic, which is named for a quote from the main character&#8217;s father: &#8220;Revenge is like a plume of black smoke&#8230;&#8221;  The artist/creator, K. Lynn Smith, has a very cinematic eye and can create both beautiful action and still images for the comic.  Her characters are visually distinctive, and she captures emotions both subtle and manic, even using a limited palette of colors.  She has a special knack ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures from the Washington Cherry Blossom Street Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/04/pictures-from-the-washington-cherry-blossom-street-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some pictures to give a feel for the kinds of things that went on at the annual Washington DC Cherry Blossom Street Festival (a &#8220;sakura matsuri&#8221;, &#8220;桜祭り&#8221; in Japanese).  This year&#8217;s matsuri was in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the gift of cherry trees from the people of Japan to the people of the US, in 1912.  This year the DC and Federal governments went all out, this festival was larger than any I&#8217;ve been to, and very well organized.  There were cosplayers (people dressed in costumes of their favorite anime  or video game characters), many people in traditional kimono or other dress, and many musical acts, especially the taiko drummers.
Unfortunately, I had a hard time getting my camera to take good pictures, and so this collection is the best of the shoot.  I know why they call it a &#8220;shoot&#8221; now, since that&#8217;s all I was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cat alarm clock?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/04/cat-alarm-clock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently this guy has far more patience than I would if I had a cat that did this.  It&#8217;s clever on the cat&#8217;s part that he was able to figure out how to do this, but I&#8217;d either be finding a way to block him, or I&#8217;d be finding a place to stow him overnight, like the bathroom.  Or the neighbors&#8217; bathroom.  Or Siberia.
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		<title>A really neat steampunk Western fantasy webcomic, &#8220;Next Town Over&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/04/a-really-neat-steampunk-western-fantasy-webcomic-next-town-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I was doing my usual roaming through my usual webcomic haunts when I saw an intriguing ad for a new webcomic. As is my want, I followed the ad link to a webcomic called &#8220;Next Town Over&#8220;, which turned out to be a comic with a Western setting, but with fascinating elements of magic use and of the strange pseudo-19th Century &#8220;might-have-been&#8221; technology called &#8220;steampunk.&#8221;
The creator of this comic is Erin Mehlos, who has a masterful grasp of the Western genre, including some right-natural dialog from the characters! It&#8217;s obvious that this comic is a labor of love, from a fan of Westerns to others of like mind, but she also adds her own spice to the story by introducing non-traditional elements. If anyone reading this is old enough to remember, I&#8217;d say the comic is very much like the 60&#8242;s TV show &#8220;The Wild, Wild ...]]></description>
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		<title>The President is going to the dogs!</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdwatch.com/2012/04/the-president-is-going-to-the-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Captain Nerd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The right wing of the blogosphere is going wild with the whole &#8220;Obama ate dog meat&#8221; thing, especially after making all the fuss about the Romney&#8217;s taking their dog on the roof of their car. This site by Frank J. Fleming already skewered politics with fantastically funny satire, but he&#8217;s in hog (dog?) heaven with this latest. Here&#8217;s his newest list of Obama-dog-eating one-liners:
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2012/04/random-thoughts-obama-ate-a-dog-edition/
My favorite:  &#8221;Dog bites man – not news. Man bites dog – news. President bites dog – BEST NIGHT OF TWITTER EVER!!!&#8221;
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