May 14, 2012 by Jon Nichols
I took part in my first zombie walk this Saturday down at High St. I had heard of the Columbus Zombie Walk before in past years, but never wanted to or was able to attend. This year on a last-minute whim, we decided to go and take the kids. We already knew a few folks who were going to be down there as well, so figured why not.
Gabby and Cameron got to wear face makeup and blood to look like creepy little kid zombies. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to take some pictures of them…which I regret. There were a few folks who asked to take pictures of the kids, so hopefully I’ll find them posted up on the Zombie Walk Facebook page shortly.
Amy and Magnus went dressed as Ghostbusters, myself as Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies. We all had a fun time and walked the entire 1.5 mile walk. The walk organizers collected more than 4000 lbs of canned goods for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank as well. Glad to be a part of that by pitching in a bag full of canned goods from our cupboard.
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May 13, 2012 by Jon Nichols
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May 10, 2012 by Jon Nichols
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May 10, 2012 by Jon Nichols
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May 10, 2012 by Jon Nichols
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April 24, 2012 by Jon Nichols
Rancor Clan, the Ohio Chapter of the Mandalorian Mercs Costume Club had their first armor party of the year this weekend. My goal was to actually get some work on at least one of my many projects that I have started and never finished. I spent my time working on my helmet I purchased from Tom (Novall) back in 2009. It’s been a long ongoing process…mainly delayed by procrastination and laziness.
The idea for the helmet was to add a pair of “macrobinoculars” to it which would allow my character to see things at a farther distance. This same idea can be seen added to a few select clone troopers as well. The main problem with doing such a thing is that the regular helmet only has one attachment point for a rotating antenna on the right side for the range finder. I literally had to copy and build a new attachment point to the left side so the binoculars could attach to both sides of the helmet. Finding ear caps for the helmet were a challenge as well because they again are normally made for only one side being an antenna. After some work at the armor party I was able to scavange the ear caps off of a Hasbro Boba Fett toy helmet and make them work.
Here are a few other shots from the armor party. Everyone stayed busy working on something or helping others. We all had a great time.
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April 8, 2012 by Jon Nichols
That big old bunny came last night and left some movies, candy, and playdoh for the kids. They seemed to enjoy what they got.
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April 3, 2012 by Jon Nichols
Cameron had cub scouts again last night after a break for two weeks. Upon walking in we found that the night’s project was to make a kite from scratch. With some dowel rods, string, tape, butcher paper and dad’s construction skill we fashioned together this bad boy.
After putting it together we took t out to do a quick test run to make sure it could get off the ground…despite having little wind it did stay up for a breif while. We plan to getmore string and give it a proper flight sometime this weekend.
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March 20, 2012 by Jon Nichols
The new addiction that is “Draw Something” has been sweeping the phone and tablet market lately…if you aren’t playing it yet you should be! The game has an easy premise, similar to the famous Pictionary of the past. Get a word, try to make your partner guess the word by drawing it. They get help this time around, however, in the form of a bank of letters at the bottom of the screen. Watch out, though, there are extra letters and they are all jumbled up.
It’s fun to see what crazy concoctions your friends can come up with, but alas it does have its “cheaters” who will just write out the answer after a few failed attempts at drawing it. I myself, would rather take onthe task of trying to guess it instead of being told the answer. While word use in Pictionary is a no-no…in the Draw Something world it’s generally accepted as longas youare only using words as leading clues along with your pictures.
The app is free on the Google Play market…although there is a $.99 version that offers more words and gives you coins to use towards purchasing more colors to draw with.
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