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	<title>a shrine of insignificance</title>
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	<description>My battle with Weltschmertz</description>
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		<title>Can you believe it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many people in Information Retrieval related fields I have been keeping a close eye on FiveThirtyEight.com. The owner has put together a fairly sophisticated and so far accurate model of electoral behavior based on past trends, polling data, and some other demographic and statistical information. Over the past month since Palin was allowed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/10/10/can-you-believe-it/</link>
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		<title>Man the right wingers are touchy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So yet another right-winger somehow found my little blog and gets all upset because I believe that adult civil behavior is not too much to ask of my fellow Texas Aggies. His name is Sean Michael McCoy originally from Bulverde, Texas and he is a freshman General Studies major, his email is beefcake08@neo.tamu.edu and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/10/04/man-the-right-wingers-are-touchy/</link>
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		<title>Jorge Cham loves TAMU :-)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a footnote to the PHD Comic for 9/12/2008 it says:
 Thanks to everyone at CERN who talked to me and to EPFL for inviting me to Switzerland. A shout-out also to the folks at the Texas A&#038;M Cyclotron Institute for showing me their facilities and getting me started on this topic.
I&#8217;m always glad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/09/14/jorge-cham-loves-tamu/</link>
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		<title>A response to a commenter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KLBJFB@AOL.COM wrote a comment to my post about the &#8220;Beat the Hell Outta Obama&#8221; Shirts and I decided it was best to address her email. I apologize if I get pedantic and maybe a bit elitist before I start.
I found your comment as I “Googled” this to try and find out where I could get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/09/05/a-response-to-a-commenter/</link>
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		<title>A dishonor to the true spirit of the Aggies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To President Murano, Vice President Weber, Executive Director Garner, and the Battalion:
I consider myself to be a proud member of the Aggie family. Both of my parents, an uncle, my wife, two of her cousins and my younger brother attended Texas A&#038;M University. I graduated from Texas A&#038;M with my B.S. in Computer Science in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/09/03/a-dishonor-to-the-true-spirit-of-the-aggies/</link>
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		<title>Biden makes two.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So on a June 20th of last year I made my predictions for the 2008 race. McCain/Huckabee and Edwards/Biden. While I was wrong, much to my surprise and delight, about Edwards. Looks like I did get the VP for the Dems (in addition to the Rep Presidential nominee). I&#8217;m still crossing my fingers on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/08/25/biden-makes-two/</link>
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		<title>Too dumb to understand aerodynamics, but smart enough to understand technology centuries beyond modern science.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ So I&#8217;m watching a interesting program on the history of the meat packing and butchering industries on the History Channel. The program ends and a new one called &#8220;The UFO Hunters&#8221; starts. The topic of today&#8217;s episode is reverse engineering of alien technology.  In short, they are claiming that the majority of major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/07/25/too-dumb-to-understand-aerodynamics-but-smart-enough-to-understand-technology-centuries-beyond-modern-science/</link>
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		<title>Patriotism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I consider myself a patriot. Not in the sense the right-wingers want us to think it. I do not wear American Flag pins, I don&#8217;t blindly follow the President, and I don&#8217;t see America as flawless. I am a Patriot by the true American sense, by the founding fathers sense. I believe in the rule [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/07/22/patriotism/</link>
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		<title>The Bryan-College Station Eagle&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Day contest and dishonesty.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So for Father&#8217;s Day 2008, our local paper had a best father-child photo contest. Some facts about the winning photo. It was a grandfather-grandchild photo which is slightly outside the rules, but not so bad. The really bad part was the number of votes. 1.4 million. Yes a paper in a metro area of 150,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/07/04/the-bryan-college-station-eagles-fathers-day-contest-and-dishonesty/</link>
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		<title>We Won!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Profiles are here to stay. The petitions, blog entries, news articles, email complaints, phone complaints,  comments on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, and NetFlix&#8217;s own dev blog worked. NetFlix despite telling us this was a &#8220;final decision&#8221; has reconsidered driving thousands of customers to their competitors and making thousands more dissatisfied. Thank you everyone who joined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.technomagick.com/wp/2008/06/30/we-won/</link>
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