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	<title>Alkahest</title>
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	<description>There&#039;ll be no more cigarettes.  No more having sex.  No more drinking until you fall on the floor.  No more indie rock.  Just a ticking clock.  You have no time for that anymore.</description>
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		<title>hooray for water!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The plumbers finally got out late Monday, in time to find out that the well pump needed replacing, and no they don&#8217;t keep a 3/4 hp pump on hand&#8230; why do you ask?  After the supply store opened back up, they came by around 9:30 this morning and replaced the pump.  The bad news?  Ouch, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2010/03/09/hooray-for-water</link>
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		<title>and the weekend started off so well&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It started off as a good weekend.  I swear it did.  I was up late Friday (technically, early Saturday) talking to a friend from high school, catching up on this and that.  Woke up late, played a bit with the dogs and went out to Celebrity Dairy&#8217;s open house.  I got to pet the baby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2010/03/08/and-the-weekend-started-off-so-well</link>
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		<title>Turn about and all that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So maybe in my last post, I was a bit hard on Louisiana because it&#8217;s the state I&#8217;ve left.  It&#8217;s not like we don&#8217;t have our own wackos in NC.  Two examples:

One of NC&#8217;s representatives, Patrick McHenry (R) has proposed that we put Reagan&#8217;s face on the $50 bill.  Maybe for his work on voodoo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2010/03/03/turn-about-and-all-that</link>
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		<title>Seriously, W&#8230; T&#8230; F?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, something from Louisiana will catch the national attention, or at least the political bits that I care about, and I&#8217;m once again reminded of why I&#8217;m happy to have left.  The latest?  Apparently, the Bossier Parish sheriff is creating himself a militia.  No really.  It&#8217;s called &#8220;Operation Exodus,&#8221; which according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2010/03/03/seriously-w-t-f</link>
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		<title>Distilled essence of me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[K&#8217;s out of town this week.  IIRC, this is the first week since we&#8217;ve been married that she&#8217;s out of town and I&#8217;m still at the house.  I figure that&#8217;s gotta give me a good sense of what I&#8217;m actually like without her, um,  civilizing  influences.  Helpfully summarized in the table below:



Behavior
Change


Television watching
decreased


Computer use
increased


Work while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2010/03/01/distilled-essence-of-me</link>
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		<title>Heathcare reform: a Festivus miracle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Festivus, I should note a recent sighting of a genuine Festivus miracle&#8230; they still had a quart of Maple View Farms eggnog at the grocery store!
Er, actually, a better Festivus miracle is that today the senate democratic caucus reached the 60 votes needed for their final cloture vote and will vote on healthcare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/23/heathcare-reform-a-festivus-miracle</link>
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		<title>Happy Festivus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder of that it&#8217;s the 23rd.  Bring on the feast and the airing of grievances!  After dinner, all of the pets in the house will have to try to pin me in the feats of strength  
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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/23/happy-festivus</link>
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		<title>All the old favorites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I want to be professor Claus when I grow up.  I wonder where you can find Nietzsche sweaters?
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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/20/all-the-old-favorites</link>
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		<title>42 and sunny&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[42 &#176; and sunny, perfect for turning:



into:


into:


and then:

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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/20/42-and-sunny</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Hacking&#8221; predator drones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This just makes me sad.  Two articles, one in the WSJ, the other on CNN, describing how insurgents in Iraq are hacking predator drones and receiving the video feeds that the drones are sending back to U.S. ground stations.   First things first, let&#8217;s fix the headlines.  Both are running something like &#8220;Iraqi insurgents hacked Predator [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/18/hacking-predator-drones</link>
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		<title>Boycott!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m officially boycotting any retailer using &#8220;Santa Baby&#8221; in their commercials.  Yeah, it&#8217;s an empty threat since I wasn&#8217;t going to the mall anyway, but there you are.  Now to get the idiotic song out of my head.  Maybe the Mighty Mighty Bosstones?  Failing that, a power drill may be my best bet.
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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/17/boycott</link>
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		<title>Calendar update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[K and I received our copies of the Yellowstone calendar and they look great.  I&#8217;m happy with both the images we selected and also the printing &#8211; which was great.  As I mentioned earlier, we went with Zazzle for doing the printing and couldn&#8217;t be happier.  My mom got the ones for the folks in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/09/calendar-update-2</link>
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		<title>Back from the dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I wasn&#8217;t really dead, I had the flu.  But I was wishing that I were dead for a while there.  Five days is too long for a massive headache and very high fever.  I&#8217;m finally recovering and doing some self-imposed quarantine after getting on Tamaflu Monday.  Tuesday afternoon was somewhat interesting.  My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/12/09/back-from-the-dead</link>
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		<title>Trash heap of programming history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we put in the massive wall-eating bookcase, I thought that we had enough book space for the next 10,000 years!  Or at least the next 10.  Unfortunately, things were filling up a bit too fast, so I grabbed some of the books that I know I&#8217;ll never use again and will send [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/29/trash-heap-of-programming-history</link>
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		<title>Allman Brothers Band</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
  It&#8217;s a good day for the Allman Brothers: great southern rock without the confederate overtones and segregationist b.s. you put up with in Lynard Skynyrd.  I could put &#8220;Jessica&#8221; on repeat and be happy for the rest of the day   
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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/24/allman-brothers-band</link>
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		<title>Yellowstone calendar pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to assemble the annual Yellowstone calendar.   This year I had a bit of a deadline (and not the shipping deadline this year!).  The company I ordered from (Zazzle) was having a 44% off deal, which expires around 3am.  Unfortunately, because of my grandfather&#8217;s death, I never did get around to processing the pictures from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/23/yellowstone-calendar-pictures</link>
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		<title>Canning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ and that&#8217;s the last of the summer veggies:  pickled green (and unripe red) tomatoes (mostly cherry), bannana peppers, a couple of small eggplant (can you pickle eggplant?) and an okra that I hadn&#8217;t noticed.  I&#8217;ll crack one of these open in a month or so and see how they taste.  FWIW, the pickled bannana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/19/canning</link>
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		<title>cec&#8217;s day off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought about titling this &#8220;VD Day&#8221; for reasons explained below, but as K pointed out, my mom reads this blog.  More to the point, as I noted, my mom has a dirty mind &#8211; which is where most of her children got our sense of humor, so she would absolutely get it.  Anyway, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/16/cecs-day-off</link>
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		<title>Sounds about right to me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of xkcd:

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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/13/sounds-about-right-to-me</link>
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		<title>Mr. Deity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all of your theological questions, the deity is now on YouTube.  Two of my favorite questions are the problem of evil and how do you explain the trinity.  Respectively answered in the &#8220;Mr. Deity and the Evil&#8221; and &#8220;Mr. Deity and the Identity Crisis,&#8221; below:

and
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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/11/mr-deity</link>
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		<title>Great moments in . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Minor notes, none worth their own post.

Traffic management: I get a call from K around 5:30.  She&#8217;s stuck behind an accident and the cops on the scene, a) don&#8217;t tell people to take a detour until they&#8217;ve been there for a half hour; and b) once the ambulance has left the scene, don&#8217;t direct [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/11/great-moments-in</link>
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		<title>gop hcr doa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the most awesome [1] display of legislative ineptitude since they presented a budget with no numbers on April Fool&#8217;s Day, the republicans have released their plan for health care reform.  Now, keep in mind that as scored by the CBO, the democratic plan will increase coverage from 83% to 96% of the legal population [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/05/gop-hcr-doa</link>
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		<title>Facebook security vulnerabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[and this is why I like cross-posting to facebook from my blog.  It&#8217;s a healthy reminder that nothing on fb is actually private.  If it&#8217;s online &#8211; it&#8217;ll be exposed eventually, whether through a new exploit, or just because you &#8220;friend&#8221; someone in the future that you had written about in the past.

h/t hsarik
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		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/05/facebook-security-vulnerabilities</link>
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		<title>Sierra and the case of the uncomfortable pillow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our dogs, Darwin, likes sleeping on the floor.  He&#8217;ll occasionally sleep on the couch or on his dog bed, but then he gets too hot and moves to the floor.  The other dog, Sierra (named after either the Sierra Nevada Mountains as beautifully described by John Muir or the brewery named after the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/04/sierra-and-the-case-of-the-uncomfortable-pillow</link>
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		<title>Toy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a guy who uses computers as much as I do, you would think that I would have better machines at home.  But really, no.  Our last desktop was eight years old before we replaced it.  My laptop was an old Thinkpad X31 &#8211; maybe six or seven years old.  So, for a combination birthday/Christmas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fenris.org/2009/11/03/toy</link>
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