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Okay, I would have done this anyway (I've competed in every ACSLNE event to date), but this year it was for "Cluck."

This is just an observation: I certainly don't think you should cast your vote based on the way a candidate looks.  However, watching the debate last night, I was struck by the similarities between John McCain and Crusty Doozer from "Fraggle Rock." This isn't an attack, it's just an observation (I think you should vote for Obama for entirely different reasons).  Anyway, it was McCain's particular gait that really reminded me of Doozerville, but I couldn't find a movie clip of Fraggle Rock anywhere to make a visual comparison.  The jowls, however, are definitely Doozer bred. I probably wouldn't have referred to McCain as "beady eyed" prior to this, but they're so close it's scary ... and Crusty's eyes are actually beads, so I guess the description fits.

This is such a simple lil' trick of CGI, but enduringly fun. Enter an URL in the mouth, and watch it get bitten by a zombie.  

I love playing poker with my friends. It's always a good time, and always a friendly game. There's a big game coming up, but I'm tired of relying on one particular friend to bring the chips and cards. So, with some X-Mass cash in pocket, I decided to buy my own set of quality playing cards and chips.

They should be here early next week, and in anticipation, I also went shopping for some quality cards. After reading some reviews online, I chose the Dal Negro Freedom, a plastic card that is known for its "paper card feel". Plastic cards are either love-em or hate-em, but in my house, they win because off durability. And lets face it, cards aren't expensive products, so even expensive cards are still, in the grand scheme of things, inexpensive. The review I read went something like this:

"The Dal Negro's have more of a 'paper' feel to them than the other plastic cards I have reviewed. The texture feels similar to COPAG cards but have much more of a 'sandpaper' feel. The cards feel less 'plasticy' than the other decks and anyone who handles them up immediately notices the difference in feel. When you look closely at the paper, it looks like particle-board.

Dal Negro's have a unique feel for a plastic card. The cards have more of a fuller, chiseled feel to them than other plastic playing cards. The corners are more rounded than a KEM. They feel like little pieces of cardboard and are the thickest and heaviest cards I reviewed."

OK, it went exactly like that. That is a direct cut-and-paste from a review at HomePokerTourney.com.

The Armored Combat Suit League of New England (ACSLNE) had its second succesful event this New Year's Eve. Just after sundown, while we could still see a little bit, we had round one of combat, which was held between veteran ACSLNE champion Captain T.W. and newcomer Shogun Knapp (thats me). TW fought in a sleeker box-built robot armor suit than last year's model, while my first-time suit was built from panels of heavy duck canvas covered with duct tape and then aluminum tape. TW definitely looked like a robot, whereas I looked like some sort of accident between a Samurai and an aluminum foil factory.

I heard a rumor that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster, who is worshiped by pirates and lives among us manipulating science on-the-fly through his invisible but omnipotent noodleness.

I'm not an exceptionally religious man by nature, but this just makes sense to me. After all, everybody likes noodles.

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