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GungalTM of the Day

GungalTM Penny Mathis says 'Look, but don't touch'...

Wonderful weekend at home with my beloved Effie!! We marked our 3 month milestone quietly at home, lol, but with full contentment, enjoying my Sweet Gal's miraculous makeover of left-over pork chops into a Oriental rice concoction that was just awesome. My beloved was called to work today, as I updated this blog entry, I received her text that she got through OK. (There's an ice storm on in the Mid-Hudson Valley, tho it doesn't seem too bad from my wife's first text.)

Today, I've got a few chores to do at the old HQ bunker if all the stars align and weather permits. I've got some paperwork to print out that I'll need, plus I still have a boatload of junk that needs sorting and tossing out. I'm hoping I can get all the disposal taken care of before Summer.

Long-time readers of the blog will be familiar with my fascination with all things zombie. During my forced vacation  unemployment, I read a number of zombie novels, including The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, by Max Brooks (incidentally the son of director Mel Brooks). Included in today's news links is the XX Day Series, a series of graphics that tell a very similar story. It was curious indeed that news events (items about wacky people biting each other) helped create the story arc for the series. I haven't scanned every image yet, but the ones I've seen are extremely well designed, effectively telling the story. It's a work of art in the truest sense. Check it out. Moving on...

Featured Modern Warfare 3 Video

Uploaded 12January 2012 on FearCrads

Call of Duty Links:

• [YouTube] Custom built 'China Lake' airsoft gun.

More Gaming Links:

• [YouTube] Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City trailer.
• Witcher 2 dev stops pursuing pirates.
• [Preview] Razer 'Fiona' hand-held PC hands on. Also, this: Razer accuses PC industry of not taking risks. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
• [Preview] A look at the Wii U 'hidden demo'.
• Minecraft hits 20 million registered users.
• [Interview] Details on Star Wars: The Old Republic 's first free downloadable content.
• [YouTube] Star Wars: The Old Republic 'space zombies'.
• Mass Effect 3 PC won't be on Steam.
• [Image Gallery] Bioware gives its Mass Effect statue a breast reduction.
• [YouTube] Operation: Airpain.

Online gaming...

(Image link credit: Lurknasty22 on Reddit Gaming)

Non-Gaming Links:

• [Info-graphic] The crash of the Mars Phobos Grunt space probe.
• New Orion deep space capsule passes NASA chief's inspection.
• Snorting a brain chemical could replace sleep.
• Zombie ants: When ants become the walking dead.
• Interview with Paul Barrett, author of The Glock Story: The Rise of America's Gun.
• Aliens-style electronic round counter for firearms. And here's a video of the working M41-A pulse rifle prop from the movie Aliens.
• [Image Gallery] The complete XX Day Series, a viral zombie graphic novel, started 1 January 2012. (Image credit: VidZilla on Reddit Zombies.) Check it out. It's done better than most movies about zombies...

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