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		<title>American Theism and the Treaty of Tripoli</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2011/06/29/american-theism-and-the-treaty-of-tripoli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In modern American political discourse, a great many individuals have been making the claim that America was founded by Christians as a nation built upon Christian morality. Somehow, mind-bogglingly, these claims are made in spite of the existence of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution: Congress shall make no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation topics as indicators of quality</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2010/09/16/conversation-topics-as-indicators-of-quality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about the following quote a fair bit recently: Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – variously attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, Hyman G. Rickover, or anonymously Since having come across the quote, I have found myself grouping social interactions by whether the discussions are primarily of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it wrong to make the same wish on two shooting stars?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2010/07/09/is-it-wrong-to-make-the-same-wish-on-two-shooting-stars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice things about Woods Hole is that there are few enough lights that you can see the stars in the sky. It’s really quite pleasant to be out on a moonless night and see so very many stars scattered across the skies. Sometimes, being in San Francisco, I forget how nice it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cute geometry problem</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2010/03/11/a-cute-geometry-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a cute geometry problem recently and I would like to pass it along. Problem Statement If the sides of the square are of unit length and all curves are circular arcs, what is the area of the highlighted region? Although substantially easier with the use of calculus or trigonometry, this problem can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palm Pre tagline: a critique</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2010/02/17/palm-pre-taglin-a-critique/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gwax.com/2010/02/17/palm-pre-taglin-a-critique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep seeing the same advertisement for the Palm Pre on the sides of buses; the advertisement says: “Life moves fast. Don’t miss a thing.” I understand what they are trying to say and it is a very good tagline for what they are trying to market but, whenever I see it, I can’t help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Herbert’s deeper meaning</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2009/05/23/frank-herberts-deeper-meaning/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gwax.com/2009/05/23/frank-herberts-deeper-meaning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 02:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just finished Heretics of Dune, I am, once again, wowwed by Frank Herbert’s skill as an author. There exist very powerful thoughts within his writing that seem to plant themselves in the psyche as Leto II planted himself in the worms of Rakis. As I sit here, I can’t help but react with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>myStress = 0; myEnlightenment += 1;</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2009/05/21/mystress-0-myenlightenment-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gwax.com/2009/05/21/mystress-0-myenlightenment-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, shortly after spending ten or twenty minutes following a sea turtle and listening to another thirty minutes of the Heretics of Dune audiobook, I found miraculously that my personal stress levels had reached zero. This stress level turns out, as one might suspect, to be wholely pleasant. I am inclined to suspect that this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes something alive?</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2008/08/07/what-makes-something-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realized, this morning, that I objectify yeast. Sure I objectify meat, vegetables, trees and, heck, even some people but, even when I’m doing so, I don’t lose sight of the fact that these things are or were living beings. Yeast, however, I treat a great deal more like a chemical or tiny machine. Yeast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Numerology and Synchronicity in Restaurant Stubs</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2008/03/26/numerology-and-synchronicity-in-restaurant-stubs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gwax.com/2008/03/26/numerology-and-synchronicity-in-restaurant-stubs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[food & drink]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I see a number or sequence, I have a tendency to deconstruct it into other numbers or sequences; I do this with license plates, addresses, receipt stubs and all other manner of things. It is receipt stubs, specifically from restaurants that I’d like to take as my discussion nucleus today. Yesterday, for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programmers all the way up</title>
		<link>http://blog.gwax.com/2008/01/21/programmers-all-the-way-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.gwax.com/2008/01/21/programmers-all-the-way-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gwax</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we combine the turtles all the way down theory with a simulated reality theory, might we get a programmers all the way up theory?]]></description>
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