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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>Seasonal Prospects</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/seasonal-prospects/</link>
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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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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>When Non-English-Speaking Sp*mmers and Roget Collide</title>
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		<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>Perfect Moments: &#8220;I Shot &#8216;im, Paw.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house in which The Missus and I live now is over twenty years old, as is our immediate neighborhood. But the area in general has only recently started to get built up. Real honest-to-gods wildlife, not yet squeezed out by housing and new roads, can still be spotted here and there &#8212; foxes, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Cats and Boxes Converge&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/when-cats-and-boxes-converge/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/when-cats-and-boxes-converge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the boxes lose. [hat tip: Eschaton] _____________________ P.S. A follow-up video is called &#8220;The box which Maru can&#8217;t enter.&#8221; Oh, yes, Maru can. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Victims of Fashion (Men&#8217;s Department)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/victims-of-fashion-mens-department/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/victims-of-fashion-mens-department/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone, no doubt, has taken a census of active bloggers and other social-media types, focusing on gender. I don&#8217;t know what the breakdown might be; maybe I&#8217;m stereotyping at least one sex, if not both, but I would not be surprised to learn that more women than men contribute to the ebb and flow of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Through the Day (and Knowing It)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/getting-through-the-day-and-knowing-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: xkcd.com #324. The image's title attribute there says, "Sometimes the best fun looks like boredom." (Click image to enlarge.)] From whiskey river: Questions Before Dark Day ends, and before sleep when the sky dies down, consider your altered state: has this day changed you? Are the corners sharper or rounded off? Did you live [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue: Return of the Bathroom Talker</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/real-life-dialogue-return-of-the-bathroom-talker/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/real-life-dialogue-return-of-the-bathroom-talker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I last posted about this guy. Not that I&#8217;ve had no further interaction with him, no. It&#8217;s just that all further interaction with him has been of the same unvarying sort. Nothing new to report. And I&#8217;ve also gotten cleverer about avoiding him. But this latest example just pushed [...]]]></description>
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