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Do these look like the little ghost and goblins who live in your neighborhood?

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I wonder if they offer different models based on the size of a person’s posterior?

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Below is a trailer for a documentary on Nerdcore Rappers. They rap about comic books, role playing, and video games, while preaching the gospel about nerd empowerment. Check it out.

On the Wired blog network Listening Post: Documentary Nerdcore For Life Examines the Good, Bad and Geeky

Doing his anthropology through interviews with nerdcore rappers like MC Router, MC Lars, Beefy, mc chris, YTCracker, Monzy, MC Plus+ and High-C, Lamoureux traces the genre from its origins on laptops coast-to-coast to full-on movement trying to find its identity (and then try to explain it to everyone else).

“I got so far in –- up to my neck –- in nerdcore beef and drama,” the director says. “I got on [a nerdcore] message board to promote the film and people responded with ‘Screw that movie, you didn’t ask me to be in it.’ It’s just absurd.”

Nerdcore Rappers? I think I need to look into this. The film will be shown at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle next month.

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Here are a couple of photos of guy from Bend, Oregon taking a ride in his lawn chair powered by party balloons. More on this story is available from the Associated Press story: Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons

Kent Couch lifts off from his gas station in Bend, Ore., in his lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Couch, 48, is making his third cluster balloon flight and hopes to go more than 200 miles to Idaho before running out of daylight or helium. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Kent Couch leaves his gas station in Bend, Ore., on Saturday, July 5, 2008, riding a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons in an attempt to fly to Idaho. He is equipped with a BB gun and a blowgun for popping balloons if he gets too high and three 15-gallon barrels of cherry Kool-Aid for ballast to release if he gets too low. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

The chair and balloons look like they are one heck of a contraption and a lot of fun.

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Turn it up, play it loud and roll into the weekend.

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Check out this guy on the bicycle, he kind of reminds of Tim Allen from the Home Improvement show. There have been times late at night when I am riding my bike home from work I felt like I could use boost.

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Here is a short video clip of us in a shark cage off the North Shore of Oahu. It was amazing to see 20 to 30 sharks swimming all around you and passing within inches. We had a lot of fun and I am looking forward to doing it again when I visit Hawaii in June.

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Being home and using my own computer is nice. I have been working on transferring all of the photos to my computer, backing them up to my external drive, and burning them to DVD. Yes, I am a bit obsessive when it comes to having copies, but I also had major system problem once and had to do data recovery work to get my documents back. Believe me it is easier and less time consuming to copy and backup as you go.

Once I am done with my photos I will start on my video transferring, copying and backups. Because I use MiniDV tape it will be more time consuming but I like the look of tape over other media. After all of this copying I will start processing the photos and editing the videos.

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