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		<title>The Object of My Affectation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Alfalfa, of the Our Gang comedies, sings of his love for sweet little round-faced, soft-focus Darla. And yes, I know: the song title doesn't have that extra syllable in it. :)] Whom, exactly, do you try to impress? Note that I&#8217;m not asking about classes or groups of people. Most of us would like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Steam Drill Only Made Nine (Lord, Lord)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my siblings and I were kids, at some point Mom and Dad bought us a huge collection of LPs of music of all sorts &#8212; a passive music-appreciation course, of sorts, for kids in a small town. The entire set arrived in a cardboard box which none of us (but Dad) could lift. Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue (Midday Meal Edition)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Setting: a small automobile in a mid-sized city in northern Florida, USA. It is early morning. She is driving today; He occupies the passenger seat. The car pulls up to a curb. He opens his door and prepares to exit; in the midst of the usual love-yous, good-byes, and have-a-good-days, He suddenly remembers a specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hits and Misses</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/hits-and-misses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complicated here, during the last week. Not bad, just&#8230; complicated. Thought I&#8217;d sort of summarize a couple of points of potential interest, but first, a question for regular visitors: Have you had problems accessing RAMH recently? One of your number has reported getting repeated &#8220;the connection was reset by the server&#8221; errors. It&#8217;s prevented her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a Kindle: Some First Impressions</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/using-a-kindle-some-first-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is one of what will no doubt become a series on my experiences in using a Kindle 2. It's not a drum I want to beat often -- don't want it to become one of those "I have X but you don't, haha!" gloatfests. But it might be useful for people on the fence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buh-Bye, Book-Buying Guilt!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/buh-bye-book-buying-guilt/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/buh-bye-book-buying-guilt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books as Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Missus has a refrigerator magnet which features a head-and-shoulders hand-tinted photo of a wealthy, hoity-toity society-matron sort of woman; the text alongside says, &#8220;&#8216;Frugal&#8217; is such an ugly word.&#8221; (Ha!) Like many people, I suppose, I have great ambivalence about acquiring ever more Stuff. Examined closely, expressions like Wow, that would be so cool! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Can Believe It (or Even If You Can&#8217;t)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/if-you-can-believe-it-or-even-if-you-cant/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/if-you-can-believe-it-or-even-if-you-cant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: backglass from a new(ish) pinball game by Stern, currently available from Premier Amusements] From whiskey river&#8216;s archive (a/k/a the commonplace book): A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. &#8220;Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;No,&#8221; replies the colleague, &#8220;but I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>He Would&#8217;ve Been 86 (+ Two Days)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/he-wouldve-been-86-two-days/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/he-wouldve-been-86-two-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Twenty-year-old Dad-to-be applies an arc-welding torch to a tank, somewhere in Europe, 1944-45. Handwritten caption on back: It's me again. Actually working. I told you so!] For years, this has been a psychologically complicated few days &#8212; at least for those of us in my family given to psychological complication. In no particular order: Dad&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Water</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/in-the-water/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/in-the-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[For information about this photo, called "Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida," see the Note at the bottom of this post.] From whiskey river: Adrift Let my dreams while I&#8217;m wide-awake loose. Let me be drowned, bap­tized, in the light given me. Day comes around, night, fall, win­ter, spring, sum­mer. Leaves over­head, under­foot. Waves arrive, buf­fets from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Update</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/medical-update/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/medical-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stepdaughter and The Missus: both doing fine, albeit exhausted. The immediate crisis &#8212; borne mostly by the former, although vicariously by The Missus and the rest of us &#8212; finally passed last night, sometime after midnight. Now begins a loooong period of physical and psychological recovery. This has been a sad, scary, tiring week. [...]]]></description>
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