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		<title>the one next to her is better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At church one day (*sigh*, okay, one Sunday&#8230;), Alexis and I noticed that there were little notepads in the slotted holders in the back of the pews. The notepads looked like they were there for congregants to write down prayer requests or something like that.
Anyway, the notepads in OUR pew had far more juicy things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how true, how true&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.xkcd.com/451/


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		<link>http://www.recklesspassion.com/20080718/how-true-how-true/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;can art change the world?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, when I was trespassing on a Communication Theory class, my current advisor posed this question to a group of incoming graduate students. The ensuing discussion was a bit too scatter-brained, but the question remained with me for a long time. I&#8217;ve been thinking about it since then, and recently I started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recklesspassion.com/20080717/can-art-change-the-world/</link>
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		<title>refueling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the other day I was working from home, but had run into a bizarre policy issue that got me tangled up in a whole buncha interpersonal conflict mess. I decided to take a break and go to Noho to get me some pipe tobacco.
On the way I saw that my car was running on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recklesspassion.com/20080716/refueling/</link>
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		<title>why i am retiring from engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 23rd I will be retiring from engineering.
The term is a bit dramatic, to be sure, but I love using it because it does convey the sense of finality that I want associated with my leaving - I am well and truly determined never to do any &#8220;engineering&#8221; again, even on a contract basis.
Depending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recklesspassion.com/20080705/why-i-am-retiring-from-engineering/</link>
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		<title>useless resources (continued)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Ed Wischmeyer commented astutely on my previous post on useless resources (you can read his comment here). He got me thinking a lot more about what I had written, and in particular I got to thinking about what, exactly, was I trying to criticize about resources? So I replied, and in the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>living versus thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We do not think ourselves into new ways of living.
We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
~ Richard Rohr, &#8220;Everything Belongs&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.recklesspassion.com/20080417/living-versus-thinking/</link>
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		<title>cultural criticism and narrative theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And it begins&#8230;
So, this Fall I will be starting graduate school at UMass-Amherst! I will be studying toward a Master&#8217;s and then hopefully on toward a Ph.D. in Communication, focusing on cultural studies (especially cultural criticism and social criticism), rhetoric, performance studies, and narrative theories of social interaction.
Whew&#8230; I have no doubt that those wordy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recklesspassion.com/20080417/cultural-criticism-and-narrative-theory/</link>
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		<title>useless resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick: what do you think of when you hear the word &#8220;resources&#8221;?
I was at a &#8220;Stewardship and Spirituality&#8221; conference on Saturday, with my pastor and a few other lay people from my church. It was a conference on how we as a church should be better stewards of what God has entrusted us with - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>i fart on your pews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I performed a story at church, in collaboration with my pastor, about the apostle Paul being shipwrecked on an island. My pastor, the incomparable Reverend Todd (he hates being called that, so here ya go Todd), is a lover of improv theatre, and we share a common bond when it comes [...]]]></description>
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