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		<title>In theory, in reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a dream about a year ago.  At the time, I was wholly enamored of the block-and-tackle; a system of pulleys which affords us an ease of lifting directly proportional to the amount of excess rope you are willing &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/in-theory-in-reality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=277&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Infinite patience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 05:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must liken patience to erosion.  You can not say that they aren&#8217;t aggressive tactics, only that they seem passive because they elude time.  Rivers have cut gorges through rock and patience, provided it is practiced religiously, can do the &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/infinite-patience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=275&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meta Humor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humor, in many ways, bears a strong resemblance to the first law of thermodynamics.  Namely, it can neither be created nor destroyed.  Yes, the  comedian creates his jokes but the essence of what makes them funny lies in a process; &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/meta-humor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=270&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 simple things you need to do with your 5 year old ASAP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(1) Play for them Sergei Prokofiev&#8217;s &#8216;Peter and the Wolf&#8217;.  Children love stories, they love music and they love animals and  sometime during the twenty-eight minutes this piece consumes, a magical thing happens.  The clarinet no longer represents the cat &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/2-simple-things-you-need-to-do-with-your-5-year-old-asap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=247&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie&#8230;.exactly as it happened.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pie is to baking as soup is to cooking and if cooking is an art, then baking is a science.   There&#8217;s just more chemistry involved in baking and consequently, more potential for your experiments to go horribly wrong.  Making a &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/strawberry-rhubarb-pieexactly-as-it-happened/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=223&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A transcendental day</title>
		<link>http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/a-transcendental-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I opened yet another transcendental Pandora&#8217;s box not realizing the irony of the fact that, being 2 o&#8217;clock  in the morning it was officially Pi day.   I have this rather unpractical habit you see of trying to &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/a-transcendental-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=211&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I put a spell on you &#8211; Nina Simone</title>
		<link>http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/i-put-a-spell-on-you-nina-simone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This performance, as it should, could not be more haunting.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=207&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mind our Manners?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apart from the joy in just witnessing my daughters growth from a 19 inch rather helpless infant to the 42 inch bright, beautiful and fully conversant five year old she is today, one of the great rewards of fatherhood for &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/why-mind-our-manners/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=202&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five fourths of Americans don&#8217;t understand fractions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding my recent post, statistics on statistics, I need more votes. Granted the question is absurd, however I am planning a legitimate analysis of the data and there are, I believe, some potentially interesting conclusions to be drawn therein.  In &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/five-fourths-of-americans-dont-understand-fractions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=195&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HTML-Bridging the gap between human &amp; machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Swensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing.  Having outgrown the customization options of the wonderful free services here at wordpress.com, I decided to venture over to their .org sister site.  Minutes later I was (virtually) knee deep in HTML tutorials and today, a mere 18 hours &#8230; <a href="http://aswensen.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/html-bridging-the-gap-between-human-machine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aswensen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6760273&amp;post=190&amp;subd=aswensen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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