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		<title>Awesome birthday gift</title>
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Susan got me my first piece for my birthday


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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/03/07/awesome-birthday-gift-4/</link>
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		<title>Close call in the parking lot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always set my parking brake, something I am occasionally teased about. This weekend I got an almost painful reminder of why I do. It was snowing hard when I left work on Friday. I stopped at Atkins Farms for a few things on the way home, and forgot to set the parking brake. By [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/28/close-call-in-the-parking-lot/</link>
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		<title>Parker in 3D</title>
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Parker at the IMAX with his Elvis glasses


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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/20/parker-in-3d-4/</link>
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		<title>Friday fun: A brief (~3 minute) History of Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have the day off, and I&#8217;m taking advantage of it by wasting time on the internets. If you haven&#8217;t seen this before, it&#8217;s definitely worth a look &#8211; a ~3 minute animated history lesson:

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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/19/friday-fun-a-brief-3-minute-history-of-everything/</link>
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		<title>Electric typewriter on a desk</title>
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This wasn&#8217;t a museum, this was at a local attorney&#8217;s office.


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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/17/electric-typewriter-on-a-desk/</link>
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		<title>Game finished: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand</title>
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Continuing my trawl through games I started then set aside, last weekend I completed 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. This is a dumb, fun, 3rd person cover based shooter. It&#8217;s a riff on the same gameplay mechanics in Gears of War 1 and 2 with an over the top plot and mixed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/08/game-finished-50-cent-blood-in-the-sand/</link>
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		<title>Game Finished: Gears of War 2</title>
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I&#8217;m still on a roll, finishing games at a rapid clip. Susan was out of town for several days at a conference which also helped.
It&#8217;s clear Gears of War 2 was written for 15 year old males, and for the most part I hated it. I disliked the first one and traded it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/05/game-finished-gears-of-war-2/</link>
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		<title>Game finished: Halo O.D.S.T.</title>
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I finished Halo O.D.S.T. (aka Orbital Drop Ship Troopers), the 4th game in the Halo series (or like the 8th, if you count the Marathon games as the spiritual predecessors they were) over the weekend. I ended up enjoying it a lot more than I expected. I&#8217;ve solved all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/03/game-finished-halo-o-d-s-t/</link>
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		<title>To SSD or not to SSD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So solid state hard drives (SSD) are starting to descend into almost affordable territory &#8211; the popular Intel x25m 80 GB drive can be found for ~$250, which is actually less than I used to pay for drives measured in megabyte capacities back when I started building my own machines. They&#8217;re blazing fast at most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/02/01/to-ssd-or-not-to-ssd/</link>
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		<title>Game Finished: Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty</title>
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I&#8217;m on a roll thanks to one of my New Year&#8217;s resolutions. I finished Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty earlier in the week. It&#8217;s a short coda to the previous game, Tools of Destruction, and explains how Ratchet figures out where Clank is after he&#8230;disappears at the end of Tools of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/26/game-finished-ratchet-and-clank-future-quest-for-booty/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit behind, granted. I have a good excuse &#8211; came down with pneumonia and it really knocked the stuffing out of me. I&#8217;m just starting to feel myself again after fighting this off for three weeks, and I&#8217;m still fighting a cough and dealing with fatigue issues. Anyway, I made two resolutions this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/25/new-years-resolutions-3/</link>
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		<title>Walking Dead comic series coming to AMC</title>
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The Walking Dead is a comic book series that riffs on the original George R Romero premise of slow, shambling undead hordes destroying civilization, borrowing liberally from other mainstream zombie fiction as it goes. I&#8217;ve read 8 or 9 volumes of the series at this point and overall I like it. I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/23/walking-dead-comic-series-coming-to-amc/</link>
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		<title>How much is your Steam account worth?</title>
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A little friday fun of a different kind, we&#8217;ll call it the  &#8217;scare the spouse with your gaming expenditures&#8217; edition. Steam is the most successful of the PC gaming digital distribution platforms. I&#8217;m a big fan and have been using it for years. The folks at ddgamer have put together a little tool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/21/how-much-is-your-steam-account-worth/</link>
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		<title>Game finished: X-Men Origins: Wolverine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised how much I liked this game. I finished it on the PS3 over the weekend. On paper, you&#8217;d think I would hate this game &#8211; there&#8217;s not a lot of variety in terms of the enemies you face, by and large it&#8217;s a slightly disguised corridor crawler, the graphics are pretty good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/20/game-finished-x-men-origins-wolverine/</link>
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		<title>Date night dinner</title>
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Celeriac, horseradish and herb encrusted beef tenderloin, served with a creamy horseradish sauce. It was even better than that sounds


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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/17/date-night-dinner/</link>
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		<title>Dogs at dinner</title>
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In their customary position under the table


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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/17/dogs-at-dinner/</link>
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		<title>Added to my nerdom wishlist&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;this $1500 gaming chair:
How can you resist? Surround sound, acoustic tile insulation, comfy foam padded seat, this chair has it all. Good thing I&#8217;m married&#8230;.
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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/16/added-to-my-nerdom-wishlist/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t drink that fountain drink&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;it more than likely has poop in it. Ok not exactly, but basically equally disgusting &#8211; a recent study found that nearly half of soda fountain equipment had coliform bacteria infestations.  Coliform is normally associated with fecal material. There are more details here on the Huffington Post, but the takeaway should be clear &#8211; don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/15/dont-drink-that-fountain-drink/</link>
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		<title>How to get your ratings out of Netflix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Netflix and use it constantly, both for physical discs and for streaming over the network to my ps3 and xbox360. Consequently I&#8217;ve rated a lot of movies on Netflix, 983 to be exact. Netflix isn&#8217;t perfect though, and one thing about them that really annoys me is that they still seem to think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/15/how-to-get-your-ratings-out-of-netflix/</link>
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		<title>Blowing up the Champlain bridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A minor bummer for me, a major bummer for the local residents. Some months ago engineers discovered that the Champlain bridge was so compromised structurally that they immediately closed it down, and over the christmas holiday, they blew it up. There&#8217;s a video of that demolition below. The minor bummer for me is that I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/14/blowing-up-the-champlain-bridge/</link>
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		<title>So long old friend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, here&#8217;s a minor bummer. I lived in Yarmouth, Maine for like 7-8 years, and right around the corner from my house was the largest living Elm tree in the US. I used to jog by it almost daily when I exercised. It went by the name Herbie and it had a plaque at its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/13/so-long-old-friend/</link>
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		<title>The first color ebook device to make it to market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Electronic Show was last week while I was laid up. I missed out on most of the coverage, but one thing I did notice was that the first color ebook readers are shipping in Japan (at $1k +) and that Qualcomm announced a promising new tech for color ebooks that&#8217;s superior to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/12/the-first-color-ebook-device-to-make-it-to-market/</link>
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		<title>How I spent the first week of 2010</title>
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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/08/how-i-spent-the-first-week-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>Chocolate cheddar pie?</title>
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Having trouble identifying this traditional Kimball dessert


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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/02/chocolate-cheddar-pie/</link>
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		<title>Darby is the first new years casualty</title>
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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2010/01/01/darby-is-the-first-new-years-casualuty/</link>
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		<title>New years party with lots of happy kids</title>
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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2009/12/31/new-years-party-with-lots-of-happy-kids/</link>
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		<title>Showing my holiday spirit</title>
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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2009/12/26/showing-my-holiday-spirit/</link>
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		<title>Raven and her pretty nails</title>
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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2009/12/25/raven-and-her-pretty-nails/</link>
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		<title>The tree, pre-Santa</title>
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Xmas 2009 Christmas tree


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		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2009/12/24/the-tree-pre-santa/</link>
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		<title>An iphone sword of Fargoal remake</title>
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Another reason to love my iphone: a remake of the classic old Commodore 64 rpg-lite, Sword of Fargoal, by the original developers. Info on the new iphone version can be had over on toucharcade, there&#8217;s a decent write-up on the original here on wikipedia, and I&#8217;ve mentioned it at least once before here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metamusing.net/weblog/2009/12/23/an-iphone-sword-of-fargoal-remake/</link>
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