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		<title>Assorted Kruft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, a few things.  1.) I would have been blogging more in this space but I&#8217;ve been slammed with work of various kinds.  Also, I recently discovered the hilarity that is Zero Punctuation, which is a weekly video game review.  It&#8217;s hilarious to the point that I&#8217;m pretty sure I enjoyed the four minute review [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, a few things.  1.) I would have been blogging more in this space but I&#8217;ve been slammed with work of various kinds.  Also, I recently discovered the hilarity that is <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation">Zero Punctuation</a>, which is a weekly video game review.  It&#8217;s hilarious to the point that I&#8217;m pretty sure I enjoyed the four minute review of some games more than I enjoyed the game itself.  <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/213-Too-Human">Case in point</a>.</p>
<p>2.) If any rich admirers out there are wondering what to get me for Christmas, <a href="http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/browning-produces-new-target-rifles-in-223-308-300-wsm/">I&#8217;d like one of these in .300 Win Mag</a> or <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882120109">this ludicrously nice amp</a> or a copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Museum-Mankind-David-Stiffler/dp/0879059125/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&amp;coliid=I2ZGOD4K4PLAF6&amp;colid=2HVLC4260P8RJ">the Secret Museum of Mankind if you can find one</a>.</p>
<p>3.) Well, my Washington State ballot arrived a couple of days ago.  (WA ballots are all mail-in.)  Which means I finally have to figure out who I&#8217;m voting for for President.  I still haven&#8217;t ruled out writing in one of the Roosevelts.</p>
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		<title>A Sad (But Not Totally) Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few days have been kind of depressing, with both the passing of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the loss of the SpaceX Falcon booster.  Being both a huge fan of Solzhenitsyn&#8217;s work (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich for the win!) and a huge space-flight fanboy, I was quite saddened to hear about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The past few days have been kind of depressing, with both the passing of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Solzhenistyn.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</a> and the loss of the <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209902623">SpaceX Falcon booster</a>.  Being both a huge fan of Solzhenitsyn&#8217;s work (A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich for the win!) and a huge space-flight fanboy, I was quite saddened to hear about both losses.</p>
<p>On the plus side, my friends Trevor and Molly got married in a beautiful ceremony in sunny Helena, Montana over the weekend.  I wish them much happiness in their new life together.</p>
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		<title>The moving never ends</title>
		<link>http://thetarquin.com/BlagSwitch/2008/05/31/the-moving-never-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 10:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have two posts that I&#8217;ve been meaning to put up, but both require pictures.  Which normally wouldn&#8217;t be a problem, except that a.) I can&#8217;t find the cable for my camera and b.) I can&#8217;t seem to log in to my flickr.com account.  Fun! At any rate, life&#8217;s been pretty insane the last [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I have two posts that I&#8217;ve been meaning to put up, but both require pictures.  Which normally wouldn&#8217;t be a problem, except that a.) I can&#8217;t find the cable for my camera and b.) I can&#8217;t seem to log in to my flickr.com account.  Fun!</p>
<p>At any rate, life&#8217;s been pretty insane the last week, hence the light posting.  I got back from Memorial Day/Sasquatch! Festival weekend and had to do five days worth of stuff in four days, and, considering I was behind when I LEFT for Sasquatch, well, it&#8217;s been a hell of a week.  Still, it seems to be straightening out.  This weekend I should be able to finally get back to work on my thesis (which I&#8217;m hoping *fingers crossed* to have done this summer.)  I&#8217;ll also be helping my lovely flatmate Kenlyn move in, cleaning up my own moving debris (still scattered liberally around), and playing with my new stereo setup.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll also hopefully get some reading done.  I&#8217;m just starting the first volume of <em>The Last Lion, </em>William Manchester&#8217;s biography of Winston Churchill<em></em>.  It&#8217;s quite good, even if Manchester sometimes lets his love for his subject get the better of him.  (It&#8217;s by far the most sycophantic biography I think I&#8217;ve ever read.  That it has still so far managed to be a phenomenal read is testament both to Manchester&#8217;s writing skills and to just how interesting a man Churchill really was.)</p>
<p>At any rate, such is the news.  If I can get the camera/Flickr situation sorted out, then there will probably be another post or two up this weekend.</p>
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