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Watching the game via SopCast. Works pretty well. Just have to wait 2-3 minutes while it buffers at first, and then off you go. It's a peer2peer personal broadcast app, similar to TVAnts. Tried a few channels, and the one that works best is GSports, a Shanghai Media Group channel. 355 Kbps streaming. Kind of interesting to see the ads during the half time break. All the same global brands but in Chinese, with the messaging customized to the Asian culture, of course. Nissan, Intel, Bosch, Kia, Chivas, Bud, etc.

Captain America was gunned down by a sniper as he left a courthouse on Wednesday. The venerable superhero is killed in the new Marvel comic book that hits newsstands yesterday, as reported by the New York Daily News.

The hero was created in 1941 by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a foe for Adolf Hitler. Over the years, an estimated 210 million copies of 'Captain America' comic books, published by New York-based Marvel Entertainment, have been sold in 75 countries.

The superhero, born Steve Rogers, was spawned when the scrawny arts student, ineligible for the army because of his poor health but eager to serve his country, agreed to a 'Super Soldier Serum' injection. Armed only with his shield, his strength, his smarts and a command of martial arts, the substance made him a paragon of physical perfection - but not, alas, impervious to an assassin's bullet, as revealed on Wednesday.

The weekend is here, great. Went out to Passerby for a while after work yesterday, met Marisa (1 "s") and a few other cool people. Holly's sister is in town this weekend, they are going to a play today. I suppose it's not so extremely cold today. I still recall when I came out from work Tue night, the wind gusts always made me tumble, never experienced that before. Need to run a few errands this morning.