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		<title>Sheikh Ahmed Deedat vs Sjoberg &#8211; Is Jesus God? [Debate]</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2012/01/1198/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>G+</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2011/11/g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[twitter g+ google+ google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you can plainly see, I haven&#8217;t been blogging much lately. I still enjoy long(er) form writing and I intend to keep writing on this blog. I&#8217;m sure it will continue to emb and flow a bit. My RSS feed is still screwed up, so most people aren&#8217;t paying attention anyway! One of these days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike&#8217;s Light Bread Machine Bread</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2011/09/mikes-light-bread-machine-bread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bread]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitchen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2 heaping cups white bread flour 1 cup wheat flour 2 tablespoons dry milk powder 2 tablespoons honey 2 tablespoons canola oil 2 teapoons salt 1 1/2 cups water 1 packet quick rise yeast I like to mix the honey in 1/2 cup of the water so that it doesn&#8217;t sit in one place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers who made a difference</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2011/05/teachers-who-made-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grand Forks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s National Teacher Appreciation Day. I thought I&#8217;d take a moment to remember some great teachers in my life. Mr. Deseth (Roosevelt Elementary) He was cool. He was also firm but fair. Mr. Moen (Kelly Elementary) He was funny but took his job seriously and expected you to, too. Mr. Martin (Schroeder Jr. High School) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooperation over competition</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2011/01/cooperation-over-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In another thread I am having a conversation with &#8220;carter&#8221;, who seems to be a smart and thoughtful person, and a fellow rocketeer, by the look of it. The following is a response to one of his comments that I felt deserved the spotlight of its own post, especially considering how rare I blog these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swiss Tournament Formula</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2011/01/swiss-tournament-formula/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mtg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tournament]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a Swiss tournament with n players in r rounds, you can calculate how many players will lose l number of games with the following formula: For example, you have 56 players playing in a 4-round tournament. You want to know how many people will lose 2 games. So n=56, r=4 and l=2. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creation</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/09/creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[poem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[random]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is where we begin. By writing. On a blank page. Meaning springing like grass growing. Slowly but steadily and always upward.]]></description>
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		<title>War</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/07/war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read Sebastien Junger&#8217;s book War. It was captivating because of the real life-or-death action and thought-provoking because of the deeper central idea. If you think about it, for the last 100,000 years, anatomically modern human beings have been struggling for survival. Many times, what was trying to kill them was other human beings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosetta Stone #fail</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/02/rosetta-stone-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m mad at Rosetta Stone right now and I think it is a lesson in how NOT to run a company. Here is the crux of it: Rosetta Stone is more concerned about preventing software piracy than they are about existing customer satisfaction. These things always come from the top down. Some big important MBA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>don&#8217;t talk about sex</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/01/dont-talk-about-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a weird disconnect going on. I love weird disconnects because they are saying something. I don&#8217;t know what this one is saying. We all like sex. Our culture is permeated with sex. And yet we never talk about sex in a real way. We joke about it and we might share a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sparkfail</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2010/01/sparkfail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2010/01/sparkfail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[sparkfun.com had a sale. Everything was free, you only paid shipping on the first $100k they sold. They have a blog post congratulating themselves about it. This is a hilarious act of denial. Their site was virtually unavailable during the sale. I was not able to accomplish a single thing at any point over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Life As I Remember It By Nora Dafoe</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/11/my-life-as-i-remember-it-by-nora-dafoe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/11/my-life-as-i-remember-it-by-nora-dafoe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a long memoir by my late grandmother, Nora Dafoe.

My Life As I Remember It
By Nora Dafoe

Chapter 1 - Childhood
	My mother tells me this story about my birth.  My dad...
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		<title>Tweetwall</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/11/tweetwall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/11/tweetwall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are my tweets, right here: Get your own tweetwall here: http://www.tweetwally.com/]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Paris</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/09/reflections-on-paris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/09/reflections-on-paris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[france]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, obviously, I&#8217;m no expert on Paris. I&#8217;ve been here a couple of days. But here, nonetheless, are my observations. Our hotel room is ridiculously small. We could have spent more money, of course, but it came recommended to us and it&#8217;s not exactly cheap. I think they are all like this. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Happiness</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/08/on-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/08/on-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard a great speaker on MPR &#8212; Daniel Gilbert talking about happiness. I highly recommend that you listen to it. A lot of things in the talk struck me and kept me thinking. In particular, he talks about how married people are happier than unmarried people and that men in particular are much happier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The curse of being attractive</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/03/the-curse-of-being-attractive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/03/the-curse-of-being-attractive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This has come up before. Some bloggers are beautiful women. Some dudes comment that the woman is beautiful. All hell breaks loose in a flurry of accusations of sexism and misogyny. I see both sides of this. There are huge double-standards when it comes to how men and women are treated. Women are objectified and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 ways you can help parents enjoy dinner out with their kids</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/03/10-ways-you-can-help-parents-enjoy-dinner-out-with-their-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/03/10-ways-you-can-help-parents-enjoy-dinner-out-with-their-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waiter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waitress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some lucky people don&#8217;t have kids so some things just don&#8217;t occur to them. That is understandable. This little post is to enlighten young waiters and waitresses on how they can help a family with kids who are eating at their restaurant. 1. Seat us where we won&#8217;t bother other people without dooming us to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sig</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/02/sig/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/02/sig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disclaimer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lolife.com/?p=918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is what your sig should say: This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient I obviously fucked up and it is my own damn fault. It is insane to assume that I can bind you to some agreement based on my own inability to send a fucking email. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Weenies are, well, weenies</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2009/01/windows-weenies-are-well-weenies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2009/01/windows-weenies-are-well-weenies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows weenies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Windows Weenies are mad (again) that people really truly seem to enjoy Apple products. Even journalists! How dare journalists enjoy Apple products! Don&#8217;t they know the appropriate response? Just ask Mary Jo Foley: &#8230;I hear/see a lot more jeers than cheers in the Microsoft press rooms and events&#8230; Umm maybe that&#8217;s because they make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bah AND Humbug</title>
		<link>http://www.lolife.com/2008/12/bah-and-humbug/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lolife.com/2008/12/bah-and-humbug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lolife</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finding the Holiday season quite annoying this year. I have very fond memories of Christmas when I was a kid and I do enjoy seeing how much Myles enjoys the holidays. He sings Christmas carols and watches the holiday specials and loves the Christmas lights. The bah humbug, for me, comes from the fact [...]]]></description>
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