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	<title>Traveling Hypothesis &#187; Society</title>
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		<title>It had a pi key!</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2012/01/02/it-had-a-pi-key/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c64]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodore 64]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[thirty years ago]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago,  Commodore announced the world’s most popular computer, the Commodore64. I had a VIC20 at the time and the Commodore64 was as huge an upgrade as any gadget upgrade today. The screen had twice the resolution, and more colors; you could program your own sounds, and, with unbelievably laborious effort, one byte [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative yoga</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/12/22/conservative-yoga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democrat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pay roll tax]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats, U.S.A.&#8217;s liberal party, have been handed an election year gift. It seems that after bi-partisan efforts by both political parties in the Senate, an overwhelming majority managed to agree to &#8220;kick the can down the road&#8221; and ensure that U.S. Americans get to keep a pay-roll tax break and unemployment benefits for at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addicted to inputs</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/31/addicted-to-inputs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bandwidth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frankfurt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information overload]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pop-culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent quite a bit of time last year alone. Alone on airplanes, alone in my tiny apartment in Frankfurt for weeks on end, alone running along trails passing fellow joggers with earbuds in their ears, running to their own inspirational soundtrack. To fill all that alone time, I watched a few more movies than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tail wagging hypothesis</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/20/tail-wagging-hypothesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parrot]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that this blog has much of a theme, but this thought is so off-topic I thought it deserved a warning. Still, I’d like to hear any comments or if someone could suggest other research done on this.
Recent research has shown that the behavior of domesticated dogs has evolved to match and be dependent upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a tea party on Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/17/its-a-tea-party-on-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[occupy wall street]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Occupy Wall Street (OWS) an antidote to the Tea Party? Really, they may want the same things. Both groups have formed out of dissatisfaction with the government action and interaction with a world economy in a shambles, while bankers and financial professionals grow richer and richer. Just as many of the fiscally conservative, small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No half measures</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/14/no-half-measures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[13 colonies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lived in Europe right before the turn of the Euro. Travelling all around the continent and doing business with several nations it was pretty clear to see what some of the advantages of a single European currency, the Euro, would be. After speaking to people from each different country, however, it was almost as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No shortcut to reputation</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/12/no-shortcut-to-reputation/</link>
		<comments>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/12/no-shortcut-to-reputation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jefrees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[romney]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. conservatives, and their core of evangelical Christian voters, may now have to face up to the question of where we get our morals.
Can we trust Mitt Romney if he is a mormon, and not a &#8220;real Christian&#8220;? Christianity, along with the other monotheistic religions tells us that only God can see what&#8217;s in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easily impressed</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/11/easily-impressed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After living in Germany for a couple of years I made a return visit to the company I had worked for in California. It was a heart warming experience to be welcomed back so sincerely by the team there. 
When people learned that I had learned to speak German, their eyes opened wide and several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most of us are right</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/10/most-of-us-are-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In all, 45% of Republicans who vote in primaries are conservative evangelical Christians. They are far less a factor in a general election.&#8221;
This quote from a recent CNN article discussing the impact of Mitt Romney&#8217;s faith and his chances to become the republican presidential canditate for 2012 really captures one of the great problems in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exceptional Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/2011/10/06/exceptional-steve-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RjZ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2¢]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceo club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rjz.verminbrewing.com/?p=1238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The exception proves the rule. On 5 October, Steve Jobs, one of the exceptional died.
I&#8217;ve written about the CEO club on more than one occasion. The CEO club is my name for the concept that we give extra credit to CEOs for the work they do at companies when, in fact, correlating their success with [...]]]></description>
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