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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; The Online World</title>
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		<title>The Fifteen Movie Meme</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s post ruminating about questions whose answers (at least in theory) may be more obvious than they first seem, I included a fifteen-point &#8220;meme&#8221; about movies; I didn&#8217;t actually respond to the meme there. In a comment, Jules asked what my choices would have been. Here y&#8217;go. 1. Movie you love with a passion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/answers-in-mirror-are-closer-than-they-appear/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/answers-in-mirror-are-closer-than-they-appear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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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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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Annual (?) Pay a Blogger Day (?!?)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/annual-pay-a-blogger-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Running After My Hat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;which, of course, is a long way from saying that being a blogger pays no rewards at all. I know some people who do it for money, and I know some people who do it because they think it will eventually, indirectly, lead to the making of money. But I know waaaay more people who do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of English, in Ten(ish) Minutes</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/the-history-of-english-in-tenish-minutes/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/the-history-of-english-in-tenish-minutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons & Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=9071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a sophomore in high school &#8212; this was just a plain old everyday public high school, not a school for high-achieving nerds or anything &#8212; our English teacher let us write an end-of-year research paper on any topic we liked. I have no idea why, of all possible subjects, at the age [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Split and Crazy</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/split-and-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=9048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[For information about this image ("Mirror Mask"), see the artist's statement at the foot of this page. Clicking on the image above will enlarge it, if you want to experiment.] From whiskey river: This writing stuff saved me. It has become my way of responding to and dealing with things I find too disturbing or distressing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>ADMIN: Subscription Options?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/admin-subscription-options/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/admin-subscription-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running After My Hat]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=8992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just added a little Subscription Options widget over there on the right, just above the Categories list. No idea if this will work, or not. Currently there are two options: subscribe via RSS or via email. The former was already available &#8212; see the little orange-and-white icon at the top of the sidebar menu, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADMIN: Weekend Peregrinations</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/admin-weekend-peregrinations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=8858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be away from the computer on any reliable basis for a few days &#8212; probably for the last time in what feels in retrospect like a very scrambled 2011. You know how careless my attendance (let alone participation) has been for the last few months at your blog, whoever you are? Yeah. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Non-English-Speaking Sp*mmers and Roget Collide</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/when-non-english-speaking-spmmers-and-roget-collide/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/when-non-english-speaking-spmmers-and-roget-collide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sp*m comment o&#8217;the day: I&#8217;m not lily-livered of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not match to an idea. This is the primary error of the pretended &#8220;scientific&#8221; mind. People who howler facts for ideas are undone thinkers; they are gossip. I&#8217;m not scared of facts, I appreciated facts but a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the &#8220;A&#8221; Word</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/on-the-a-word/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/on-the-a-word/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Left-Hand Rule." For an explanation about something other than the subject of this post, see this page at the University of Maryland's Department of Physics site.] &#8230;or: what It&#8217;s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has to do with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (Well, no, not really. The post started out to connect [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: &#8220;Bad Moon Rising&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/midweek-music-break-bad-moon-rising/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/midweek-music-break-bad-moon-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creedence Clearwater Revival&#8217;s classic gets most of its airtime around Halloween, maybe for obvious reasons: its association with John Landis&#8217;s great 1981 horror film An American Werewolf in London. Interestingly, in the film the song doesn&#8217;t get played in its entirety. Instead, the soundtrack plays just a few lines from the opening &#8212; almost as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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