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		<title>Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: xkcd #936, on password strength. Click image to enlarge; see xkcd itself for the full six panels and the punchline.] From whiskey river: This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. (Dag Hammarskjöld [source]) &#8230;and: Ch&#8217;ui the draftsman Could draw more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kindness of Every Split-Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: display window of "mini-prints" taken with the Fujifilm Instax camera (originally from the Photojojo store). See note at bottom of post for more.] From whiskey river: You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unquiet Large, Quiet Small</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You Didn&#8217;t Forget the Words, Did You?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/01/you-didnt-forget-the-words-did-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: a zebra teaches a little girl to scat-sing. Found it at Zooglobble, home of "kids' music worth sharing." Warning: do not visit that site if you are even mildly distractable.] My Dad taught me many things about music, especially jazz, even (I&#8217;m certain) in ways which I have yet to understand or even recognize. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Absorbing and the Absorbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: a Menger sponge overgrown with vines, found here. Wikipedia explains how to construct a real Menger sponge, noting -- without elaboration -- that the resulting object "simultaneously exhibits an infinite surface area and encloses zero volume."*] From whiskey river: You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Right in Front of You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: unretouched photograph of an anamorphically-painted building interior, by French artist George Rousse; I found it here. As suggested at that site, be sure to see the video about Rousse's "Durham (NC) project." And while you're at it, check out the similar but sometimes entire city-sized work of Swiss artist Felice Varini. I couldn't decide which artist's work to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writerly Distractions and Neuroses: Fiction and Word Counts</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/writerly-distractions-and-neuroses-fiction-and-word-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Doodle with Measuring Tape," by Bryan Reyna] I came across an interesting site this morning, called Renaissance Learning (subtitle: &#8220;Advanced Technology for Data-Driven Schools.&#8221; In general, Renaissance Learning is a resource for (as you might guess) teachers and other educators. One area of the site, the Quiz Store, peddles quizzes about specific books. What interests me today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Questions, Human Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Above: still images from the 2010 South Korean film Quiz King, also known as The Quiz Show Scandal. See the note at the bottom of this post for more information.] From whiskey river: We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: The Author&#8217;s Book, to Its Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Ed. Note: minor identifying details of this recently discovered letter have been obscured, to preserve the anonymity of the parties involved.] Dear J_____, So, you have finally finished me. I suppose I should offer not only thanks but congratulations to you &#8212; if so, then, sure: Congratulations! But I also can&#8217;t help thinking that maybe we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seasonal Prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image found accompanying the "Christmas Snow" (December 25, 2010) post at John Bedell's bensozia blog] From whiskey river: Snow Walking through a field with my little brother Seth I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in the snow. For some reason, I told him that a troop of angels had been shot [...]]]></description>
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