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		<title>Sewn and Quartered</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/07/sewn-and-quartered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Just thought I&#8217;d share a little mom-love today.  I&#8217;ve blogged before about the sewing machine I picked up a few months ago, but what I haven&#8217;t shared is that of all the tools I&#8217;ve bought through the years this machine is quickly becoming my favorite.  Part of it is the unexpectedness of it &#8211; I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poverty Threshold</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/06/the-poverty-threshold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2010/06/the-poverty-threshold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago I blogged about a phenomenon Andy and I had termed, &#8220;The Aristocracy Threshold&#8220;, and that I later learned was more commonly known as wealth condensation.  It is a formalization of the &#8220;the rich get richer&#8221; adage, and in terms of daily mind candy it&#8217;s pretty attractive.  It is the carrot that drives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aging of the Funnies</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/05/the-aging-of-the-funnies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 22:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found myself staring at the fine-print on the comics in today&#8217;s edition of the Bend Bulletin, our local paper &#8211; things like the date, the syndicated company, and the name of the artist.  Curiously, that latter bit of info &#8211; the artist &#8211; turns out to be different from the creator a fair amount of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Whiteboards and Corkboards</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/05/diy-whiteboards-and-corkboards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2010/05/diy-whiteboards-and-corkboards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at TechSpaceBend, we needed to put up some whiteboards and corkboards.  Big ones like you&#8217;d have in an office, not the little ones that decorate your kids room at home.  The only problem is that TSB is a non-profit with little/no funds availble, and these things tend to be a bit pricey.  A 6&#8242; X [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Image Searches w/ TinEye.com</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/05/reverse-image-searches-w-tineye-com/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2010/05/reverse-image-searches-w-tineye-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 13:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.broofa.com/?p=413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A reverse image search is probably not something many people will have a need for, but if you do, TinEye.com is an incredibly useful tool.  Point TinEye at a picture (either a URL or upload one), and it returns a list of all the places on the web that use a similar image. This recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Beard and Mustache Championship</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/05/national-beard-and-mustache-championship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2010/05/national-beard-and-mustache-championship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 12:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.broofa.com/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A. The Beard Team USA National Beard and Moustache Championships are being held here in Bend, OR in a few weeks. Don&#8217;t ask me why &#8211; I don&#8217;t know.  But it&#8217;ll make for some fun news headlines, I&#8217;m sure. B. My money is on this guy for the Freestyle category:]]></description>
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		<title>Yike Bike Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/04/yike-bike-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2010/04/yike-bike-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law just pointed me to the Yike Bike, a &#8220;A radical new electric bicycle &#8230; expected to transform the way urban commuters navigate congested cities.&#8221; And I have to admit, it looks really cool! &#8230; or really stupid.  I can&#8217;t decide which. My first thought was, &#8220;Why would you make a carbon-fiber tricycle,&#8221; because that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumerism 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2010/03/consumerism-2-0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2010/03/consumerism-2-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.broofa.com/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the good, responsible, post-millennium, Gen-X, yuppies my wife and I are, we try to do our part not to be too conspicuous in our consumption.  But, boy, sometimes it&#8217;s pretty damn difficult. Take, for example, our cell phones.  They&#8217;re old and beat up but they work well enough, except the batteries are toast; gotta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kid-toons</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2009/12/kid-toons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2009/12/kid-toons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping to my theme of, &#8220;&#8216;Loving Fatherhood, but Not Getting Gushy About It&#8221;: And, yeah, I don&#8217;t know why they don&#8217;t have this stuff on the Cartoon Network either.]]></description>
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		<title>Sharpe&#8217;s Review</title>
		<link>http://www.broofa.com/2009/10/sharpes-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.broofa.com/2009/10/sharpes-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Broofa</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.broofa.com/?p=381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to consider myself a voracious reader, back when I was in my teens and twenties.  I devoured science fiction at a pretty good rate.  However as I&#8217;ve gotten older I am reading less and less.  The problem, largely, is that I simply don&#8217;t have the stamina I used to.  Most of my reading [...]]]></description>
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