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Real-world Lynx fun

Posted by Nathan Strum, 18 May 2013 · 111 views

Video Game Ramblings and 1 more...

I recently added a Lynx to Artie the Atari. The reasons were twofold:I've had a Post-It note on my computer for well over a year that says, "Atari Lynx whose battery always dies by fourth panel".http://cheeptech.com/misc/blog_pics/link-origin.jpg . I've had a list of Lynx games I've been meaning to buy from B&C Computervisions fo...

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So close to the finish line, too...

Posted by Nathan Strum, 17 May 2013 · 87 views

Comic Strips

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Portability, schmortability

Posted by Nathan Strum, 16 May 2013 · 71 views

Comic Strips

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Maybe this is why Gary Larson did it in one

Posted by Nathan Strum, 15 May 2013 · 68 views

Comic Strips

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Linked In

Posted by Nathan Strum, 14 May 2013 · 75 views

Comic Strips

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A Handy thing to have

Posted by Nathan Strum, 14 May 2013 · 72 views

Comic Strips

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19th Nervous Breakdown

Posted by Nathan Strum, 08 May 2013 · 441 views

Animation

So, for the 19th year now (not in a row... but that's another story) I've put together the end-of-year shows for the CalArts Character Animation Program. Last year's blog blurb about this can be found here . And if you poke around enough, you'll find blog entries for these going back to 2008 (with a brief mention in 2006). Maybe it's a...

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Iron Man 3 - Spoiler-free review

Posted by Nathan Strum, 03 May 2013 · 162 views

Movies

When Iron Man 2 came out, for whatever reason, I just didn't have any interest in seeing it in the theater. Turns out, when I did watch it on Blu-ray, I liked it well enough to wish I'd gone and seen it on the big screen.So with Iron Man 3, I decided to go see it in the theater. Some movies, you just gotta. Especially after The Avengers . And t...

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Getting the Scoop on animation

Posted by Nathan Strum, 09 April 2013 · 195 views

Animation

A few weeks back, I wrote about the death of animation news/opinion site Cartoon Brew, as one of its founders - Jerry Beck - left the site.Jerry returned to working on his own site - Cartoon Research - with several long-time contributors. Posting cool articles, oddities and rarities relating to animation history.But news? Not so much. I really didn'...

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The (almost) return of Starcade

Posted by Nathan Strum, 01 April 2013 · 310 views

Video Game Ramblings

As I'd pointed out in the comments of this blog entry (it'd be really nice if there were a way to link directly to a particular comment... :ponder:

), the once-great Starcade video arcade at Disneyland had become a sad shadow of its former self. Back in the early 80's, it was an amazing arcade, jammed full of video games, spanning two floors....

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