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I love the smell of Zombie Con. It’s the smell of fire. It’s the smell of mud and dirt. It’s the smell of people who’ve bathed in a swimming hole for three days. It’s the smell of bourbon, gin, vodka, warm beer, Jaeger, and orange flavored drink. It’s the smell of the woods as the sun sets and things begin to cool down. More than any of that though, it’s the smell of forty awesome people who’ve come together for four days of fun and camaraderie. Emphasis on the camaraderie.

Last weekend was Zombie Con 2006: The Year They Came Back, Zombie Squad’s annual wilderness retreat. It’s the event where we charge people $75 a head for the opportunity to walk uphill for an entire weekend. If you were there, you know I’m only slightly exaggerating about that claim. We doubled the size of last year’s Zcon by opening registration for forty participants. Forty survival enthusiasts hell-bent on surviving the coming zombie apocalypse, and saving as much whiskey as possible from the rotting hands of the walking dead. I had a great time, and hopefully they did as well.

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When the zombocalypse strikes, are you still planning on using your iPod? Some people plan on bringing using their Blackberry, cell phone, or iPod even if the zombies are nipping at their heels. But the naysayers opine that electronic junk would just be extra weight and space, and there would be no way to keep it charged up enough to work.

Well, hold on, there is a solution, at least to the problem of where to get power. A friend of mine showed me an article from Popular Science about an easy to build device (inside an Altoids gum tin) that takes up very little space and allows you to charge small electronic devices with a USB jack using a nine volt battery. (It puts out five volts, which is what many common devices take.) Nine volt batteries are very commonly available, and you could probably still scrounge them even in the zombocalypse.

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