Does my family know me or what? Looking at the picture now, I’m thinking I should have arranged these in this order:

Mummy3 - Zombie Survival Guide - Fallout 3

This way I would have a Movie about the Undead, then a book about a Undead Apocalypse, and finally a game about life after a Nuclear Apocalypse.

So far, I’m already spending way too much time playing Fallout 3, and The Mummy 3 wasn’t as good as the movies before it.

I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to a new year!

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I wanted to share a little Christmas comedy with you this year. You see, every year I have to go find two songs on YouTube. The first song is Steve Martin’s 5 wishes.

The second song I have to look up, is Steve Martin teaming up with one of my favorite singers, Paul Simon, singing “Silver Bells”. Always brings a tear to my eye, a tear from laughing so hard that is.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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I just wanted to take a quick moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! I hope all of you are with the ones you love, and get to enjoy today, as well as this season.

I used to have a whole lot of trouble getting into the spirit of Christmas.

When I was in the Marine Corps, I never felt those pangs to be with family for Christmas. Besides my sister and my Aunt, the Marine Corps was my family, so I was right at home, wherever that may have been.

Merry Christmas to all of my brothers and sisters who made me feel at home those years. Semper Fi!

Now that I have kids, everything has changed, and the last couple of years I’ve really been able to see what it’s all about. I know it isn’t Thanksgiving, but I really feel thankful for my friends and family, and thankful that I’m in the right place in my life to appreciate them.

Seeing the kids eyes light up around this time of year is magical in itself, but the icing on the cake is watching my wife’s face light up when she sees the joy that the kids get from this season.

I hope that you can take a moment to appreciate the people that you care about, and to appreciate all of the men and women out there who aren’t with their families, because they wanted to do their part in keeping the rest of us safe.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone!

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NORAD Tracks Santa (North American Air Defense Command) - In 1955 Sears in Colorado Springs ran an advertisement for a special hotline that kids could call to track where Santa Claus is. In a strange twist, they misprinted the phone number, and the misprinted number turned out to be the Commander in Chief’s operations hotline for NORAD (at the time it was known as CONAD). Read the full story here. NORAD has been using their sophisticated mistle Missile tracking equipment to track Santa ever since. This year NORAD is using Google Maps, and you can even track Santa using Google Earth in 3d.

Google Earth’s Santa Tracker Page - The Google side of the NORAD / Google partnership. Evidently, Santa wants Google to implement naughty and nice data layers into Google earth.

Santa’s GPS - A Downloadable Application for Windows, written by Santa’s Elves to avoid all of those pesky Internet bottlenecks.

If you’re going to be up all night, these will give you a good idea of when you should jump into bed. You know Santa won’t come if your awake, right?

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