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      <title>&#39;Tis the Season for Bloody Jesus</title>
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      <description>Tonight was the annual Athens Christmas parade, also known as (by a friend of mine, anyway) &amp;ldquo;Athens Annual Let’s Do Weird Shit Day&amp;rdquo;. I&amp;rsquo;ve been regaled for years with tales of the strangeness at this parade, ranging from &amp;ldquo;Rotisserie Jesus&amp;rdquo; (a bloody live human Jesus on a spinning cross) to last year&amp;rsquo;s hippy who thought it would be a good idea to use a roadkill great horned owl as a hand puppet and thrust it in the faces of kids lined up along the route.</description>
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      <title>Solving Puzzles with Code</title>
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      <description>The Advent of Code is upon us once again. Every year Eric Wastl weaves together a daily series of clever challenges into a delightful story. They can be solved in any language and method you want, including brute force, and I look forward to it every December.
Which is an odd thing to say maybe considering I&amp;rsquo;ve never made it further than a dozen days in. It just seems like every year the work project I&amp;rsquo;m on catches fire and needs my full attention and my drive to work on coding challenges for fun just fizzles out.</description>
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      <title>Day full of good things</title>
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      <description>It was a day full of good things. Here they are, in chronological order:
read two chapters of Dan Moren&amp;rsquo;s book &amp;ldquo;The Bayern Agenda&amp;rdquo; while drinking coffee in the hot tub before work the things that didn&amp;rsquo;t work in my new project yesterday started working attended my first standup with my new teammates ate a delicious chicken pot pie for lunch returned a library book that was six years overdue and wasn&amp;rsquo;t charged a fine voted in the senate runoff election got a delicious dirty spiced chai installed gitea at git.</description>
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      <title>First day on the job</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>As a software developer that gets loaned out to other companies, I tend to have quite a few &amp;ldquo;first day on the job&amp;rdquo; days. Today was one of them, joining a team working hard to get a new bio-lab robot on the market.
As is typical with joining a new project, I spent the entire first day trying to figure out why nearly nothing in the README actually worked.
Computers are the worst.</description>
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      <title>Like the legend of the phoenix</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I used to be a prolific blogger, back in the very early days of the form. Had a few things &amp;ldquo;go viral&amp;rdquo; before that was a thing, meaning they were seen and talked about by dozens of people, but I was comfortably C-list in that small world.
As my online time got eaten up by other things, like farming and starting a family, my posts became shorter and less frequent and eventually just &amp;hellip; stopped.</description>
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      <title>Migration Complete</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>I&amp;rsquo;ve come out the other side. Amazingly enough, I only had to reinstall two applications: my virus scanner and web browser. All my email survived. And, my first impressions are great. I like Windows 2000. I am using Stardock&amp;rsquo;s wonderful Object Desktop, so my GUI doesn&amp;rsquo;t even look like Windows to begin with, and changing to W2000 didn&amp;rsquo;t affect me there at all. If you picked up my laptop right now, you would think I was using Apple&amp;rsquo;s OS X.</description>
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      <title>OS Migration</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Today I migrate my laptop from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 Professional. I&amp;rsquo;m scared.</description>
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