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	<title>Rising Above Mediocrity</title>
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		<title>Return of the forgotten blog.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, I haven&#8217;t updated in months.  That&#8217;s entirely my fault.
Quite a bit has happened since my last post.  One important interview, where I came in a &#8220;very close second&#8221; according to one of the interviewers.  (I know the person who got the job, so I can&#8217;t be too sore.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/07/25/return-of-the-forgotten-blog/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes a poem just says it all.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was first exposed to this poem in school, and I hated it back then.  But now, it just says everything that needs to be said.
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		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/04/09/sometimes-a-poem-just-says-it-all/</link>
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		<title>Further misadventures in bureaucracy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After my rather disappointing experience at Peace River last time, I didn&#8217;t have much hope for the next visit.  In a sense, that lack of hope was somewhat warranted, though this visit was much better than the first visit.  After a relatively short wait (compared to last time), I got to speak to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/03/31/further-misadventures-in-bureaucracy/</link>
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		<title>On Façades.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Originally posted here, on the UserFriendly.org web forum.]
(In Which The Author Laments The Dichotomy Of Virtual And Physical Life.)
It&#8217;s obvious that I don&#8217;t get along well in the Real World.  If all you know of me is what you see here, it may be hard to understand why.
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		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/03/27/on-facades/</link>
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		<title>Twenty-five years ago&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; I came into this world, kicking and screaming.
Actually, I think my mother was doing more of the screaming.  (I was a big baby.  9 pounds, 6 ounces.)
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		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/03/12/twenty-five-years-ago/</link>
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		<title>Well, that was fucking useless.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally went to the local mental health institution for what I thought would be an appointment with a psychiatrist.
First of all, the place is damn near impossible to find. I had to call and ask for directions.
The entire building is decorated in that ever-so-wonderful &#8216;government chic&#8217; style; cinderblock walls, plain white everything, nasty plastic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/02/08/well-that-was-fucking-useless/</link>
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		<title>My car battery went kaput.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not like &#8220;time to recharge&#8221; dead, either. More like &#8220;lead plates melted together&#8221; dead.
As I was on my way home from work tonight (I wasn&#8217;t even on the clock; I just needed to use the Internet connection to set my Powerbook back up) I stopped at a Subway. When I went to leave, my car [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/02/07/my-car-battery-went-kaput/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I used to be happy.  I remember being happy.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, one of the myriad antidepressants advertised on television&#8212;I don&#8217;t remember which&#8212;had an ad that stuck in my head.  The part that stuck was an actress saying, &#8220;I used to be happy.  I remember being happy.&#8221;
It struck me that I didn&#8217;t.  I knew I was depressed, but I honestly didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/02/05/i-used-to-be-happy-i-remember-being-happy/</link>
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		<title>Ludwig is dead.  Long live Archimedes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Instead of going through the trouble of finding ludwig&#8217;s cause of death, I found a suitable replacement.
The local Computer Renaissance had a pallet of used machines: Dell Optiplex GX110 models, with 500MHz CPUs and 128MB RAM each.  The quoted price was $50, but the sales guy on duty sold me one for $25.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/01/30/ludwig-is-dead-long-live-archimedes/</link>
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		<title>R.I.P. ludwig.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just have no luck with fileservers.
Until a bit over two years ago, I had a machine named &#8220;sleight-of-mind&#8221;.  Then one of the hard drives died.  When I replaced the hard drive, the machine rose from the&#8230; er&#8230; disassembled.  I took that opportunity to change naming schemes; that machine became &#8220;ludwig&#8221; (as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bgeiger.net/weblog/archives/2007/01/25/rip-ludwig/</link>
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