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		<title>Why God Doesn&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to keep this short because the title is likely to start a small riot, so I&#8217;ll cut straight to the point. In reflecting on a sort of introductory essay we had to write for English 200 this semester, I found myself thinking about a specific few sentences in which I discussed the value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trappings of Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m entirely uncertain when I first recognized in myself independent use of symbols and language.  It was, with some likelihood, when I was around the age of three, as I do vaguely recall sitting on my dad&#8217;s lap, reading a book that had something to do with trains.  In this book, certain words were replaced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words on Thoughts and Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to touch on three specific topics from Radiolab’s “Words” and how they interplay with Guy Deutscher’s “Language &#38; Thought” essay (no link, but you can find it on the NY Times website). From “Words” specifically we hear of three basic stories – a man with no language, the transition from isolated “Islands” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeep&#8217;s 2011 Grand Cherokee Gambit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I saw the &#8220;new&#8221; spot for the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee was while my family and I were vacationing in Colorado last June.  Since then, I&#8217;ve spent some time thinking about the commercial and the response it&#8217;s garnered from the general public.  In case you haven&#8217;t seen the commercial yourself, here it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steampunk, Neo-Victorianism and Consumerism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been reading Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Diamond Age, and working on getting my hands on The Difference Engine, co-authored by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Simultaneously, I had been researching pens, and trying to build some context for the Vickies of Stephenson&#8217;s work. I should possibly point out that, during this time, I confused Stephenson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serial Killers, Death and &#8230; Bob Dylan?</title>
		<link>http://www.optera.net/2010/03/serial-killers-death-and-bob-dylan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, in the &#8220;Intro to Literature&#8221; course I&#8217;m taking, we had a discussion of Joyce Carol Oates&#8217; &#8220;Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?&#8221;  It&#8217;s a tale of a teenage girl, Connie, who is attractive, promiscuous, and at odds with her mother over vanity.  In the end, this all plays out when the creepy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excuses</title>
		<link>http://www.optera.net/2010/02/excuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the last time I bothered updating this thing was in July of 2009.  Over half a year ago.  Now, that&#8217;s not too unusual, but this place probably deserves more than that.  So, I could ramble on about how I&#8217;m going to refocus my efforts, make it a goal to write more, rehash the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Cozy with Android</title>
		<link>http://www.optera.net/2009/07/getting-cozy-with-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having been using a T-Mobile G1 &#8220;with google&#8221; for quite some time now, but it wasn&#8217;t until recently that I managed to actually make myself feel at home with the device. The original wrap of Android that comes installed on the &#8220;with google&#8221; branded phones is pretty spartan, and only integrates Google&#8217;s apps.  This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Language of URLs</title>
		<link>http://www.optera.net/2008/11/the-language-of-urls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here&#8217;s a thought that occured rather spontaneously this afternoon.  What if URLs had a codified set of rules, akin to linguistic grammar?  Right now there is a minimal required form, that of protocol://host/&#60;arbitrary-and-optional-stuff&#62;, which is perfectly reasonable in a limited fashion.  What I&#8217;m suggesting is that &#60;arbitrary-and-optional-stuff&#62; have a set of rules as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Development</title>
		<link>http://www.optera.net/2008/10/personal-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Holger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muddling through the interwebs, as I do every day, I came across a few interesting thoughts on personal development, &#8220;Business-2.0,&#8221; and blog categorization. Starting with the last element, is the addition of a &#8220;Thoughts&#8221; category.  A good place to drop half-formed ideas, random thoughts, and things that just don&#8217;t fit elsewhere yet deserve better than [...]]]></description>
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