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	<description>jamming a bastard in it since 2007</description>
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		<title>Spicy Split Pea Soup to the rescue!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2009 was a miserable year for me: I worked too much and paid very little attention to anything else. As a result, I enter 2010 out of shape and lethargic. Enter Spicy Split Pea Soup! Delicious, nutritious, and with a little kick to boot. Ha ha.
Spicy Split Pea Soup
Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil
2 onions, chopped
5 cups [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/553</link>
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		<title>Cultural Scrapbook #3: Attica!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Also in 1971, the Attica Prison action seeking improved prisoner treatment took place. 31 prisoners and 9 guards were killed when the action was eventually ended by the National Guard, prison guards, and local police.
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		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/542</link>
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		<title>The cold spell continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is remarkably clear and cold in Portland this morning.


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		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/529</link>
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		<title>Cultural Scrapbook #2: Those lucky, lucky Swiss ladies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get this: Swiss women got the right to vote in freaking 1971! Dude.
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		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/518</link>
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		<title>Cultural Scrapbook #1: The experiment begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got the idea to idea to &#8220;create a visual anthology&#8221; of the year I was born &#8212; 1971 &#8212; from this item on kottke.  
First up, the publication of The Pentagon Papers. 
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		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/505</link>
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		<title>LASIK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had laser vision correction surgery (of the LASIK variety) yesterday at OHSU&#8217;s Casey Eye Institute.  My vision went from 20/200 (left) and 20/400 (right) to 20/15 in both eyes in one day.  It&#8217;ll take a couple of months before things stabilize, but so far I&#8217;m pretty chuffed!
My left eye looks fine &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/489</link>
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		<title>They&#8217;re back, baby!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was absolutely delighted to learn that Comedy Central has ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama.  First episodes to be shown mid-2010.
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		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/474</link>
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		<title>Dr. Who&#8217;s Timey-Wimey Detector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was bummed when Christopher Eccleston left the new Dr. Who a few years back, to the point that I basically abandoned my active viewership of the show. However, I recently reset my DVR to record them and fell in love all over again after hearing these few, simple lines:

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		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/352</link>
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		<title>Lottery? No. Penguin? Absolutely.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a lot of interest in playing the lottery, but I would love a friendly pet penguin.

			
			
			
		

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		<link>http://www.devilliers.com/a/302</link>
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		<title>She plays hard, and bears her scars proudly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, our 1-year-old French Bulldog Stitch had &#8220;an incident&#8221; at doggy day camp. As a member of the day camp staff described it, &#8220;she got another dog&#8217;s tooth caught on her head.&#8221; Basically, Stitch saw a tennis ball in the mouth of an older black lab, and hurled herself at it in an [...]]]></description>
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