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	<title>Dear Diary &#187; Ne-e-e-e-e-erd!</title>
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	<description>The bones tell me nothing.</description>
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		<title>The Swamp House</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2010/07/28/the-swamp-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possibly the most iconic house in my home province that isn&#039;t on the #1 highway is now in Google Street View: View Larger Map I must say I&#039;m amused at the idea of calling a provincial trunk highway a &#034;street&#034;. I guess it&#039;s paved&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting, to say the least</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2010/04/22/interesting-to-say-the-least/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a new watch from my wife for my birthday last month. It&#039;s a great watch, and I like it rather a lot. Today on my lunch break, for no other reason than &#034;because I&#039;m a nerd&#034;, I punched my watch&#039;s serial number into Google, expecting to find &#8212; I don&#039;t know, maybe its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 words (plus a bonus)</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2010/04/08/13-words-plus-a-bonus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[13 words that sound like what they mean gobbledygook thrash chunky buzz oodles pish-tosh dork scruples least worm craw clip hose One word that doesn&#039;t sound like what it means onomatopoeia]]></description>
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		<title>This morning came awful early</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/12/16/this-morning-came-awful-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my wife&#039;s alarm clock went off at 5:30 AM, she said to me, &#034;When did you get in last night?&#034; Me: &#034;3:30.&#034; Her: &#034;Yeah. I woke up at 2:30, and you weren&#039;t in yet. I thought, Those idiots*, and went back to sleep.&#034; Those idiots were me and my cow-orker Craig, and the reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplating a tattoo</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/12/04/contemplating-a-tattoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;someday. And so here&#039;re the ones currently under consideration: Two ravens, along with a quote from verse 80 of H&#225;vam&#225;l: &#034;Praise ice when over it&#034;. (But ideally, translated into Icelandic.) This &#8212; the cherry blossom eight-sided mirror symbol of Kodokan Judo. Eppur si muove &#8212; Galileo&#039;s (probably apocryphal) rebuttal to his forced confession that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The jetpack theory</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/11/04/the-jetpack-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[42. Jetpack Discovered in tom gauld&#039;s Flickr photostream. Tom Gauld has it right. 100% right, IMHO.]]></description>
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		<title>Triple threat</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/11/04/triple-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m kind of a sucker for certain things: Images of galaxies &#8212; I love the great whorls of stars that make up the visible mass of the Universe The history of science, especially physics and astronomy A clever title So it was probably inevitable that I&#039;d check this book out of the library today: I&#039;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profoundly [something]</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/10/23/profoundly-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dead Tauntaun Cake Discovered in Official Star Wars Blog&#039;s Flickr photostream. &#8230;where [something] is either awesome or disturbing. Awesturbing? Maybe there just aren&#039;t words yet for what this is. Maybe the cake-maker has transcended the capacity of the English language.]]></description>
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		<title>Movie review: Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/10/02/movie-review-moon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/10/02/movie-review-moon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About an hour ago, the credits rolled on Moon. I went into the film knowing very little: the only trailer I&#039;d seen featured Sam Rockwell looking disheveled, and had Kevin Spacey as a HAL-style AI that communicated via a combination of even, soothing tones, and smiley faces. I won&#039;t post any spoilers here, but suffice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indispensable for writers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/05/15/indispensable-for-writers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/2009/05/15/indispensable-for-writers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the latest Dresden Codak webcomic wossname deals up a list of the Essential 3rd Act Twists.]]></description>
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