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	<description>The Oddly-Titled Journal of Stephen Van Doren</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mental Aid</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/09/mental-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I took last week off from work, both to avoid the confusion &#38; malady that was the DNC and its various road closures that would have made my commute both troublesome and potentially dangerous (it is my experience that, on the whole, Obama supporters are awful drivers), and to give my brain the necessary rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wtf</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/08/wtf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent my entire morning trying to figure this out… but on my way into work, I saw a guy driving on the highway while talking on the phone &#38; eating whipped cream out of a pressurized can, spouted directly into his mouth.
Speechless, I am.
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		<title>Fat Kids</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/08/fat-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[wingnuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported recently that safe kids are becoming fat kids. Worth a read. But more important than the article itself is the premise that introduces the concept: the ubiquitous rubber matting that covers playgrounds was recently exposed to an intense heat wave in New York. This caused concerned uber-parents to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When?</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/08/when/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember when I had hopes and dreams and aspirations. I wanted to do something important. I wanted what I did with my time to mean something.
What happened?
I&#8217;ve had some aggression problems over the past few months. I wanted to blame it on the commute to work, or the unbearable weather over the past few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geekazoid</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/08/geekazoid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/08/geekazoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[video games]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I admit, I&#8217;m excited about the upcoming Star Trek MMORPG. And not just because I love Star Trek, but because I&#8217;ve been playing the same game for the past few years, and I could use something new. Here&#8217;s hoping there&#8217;s more to this game than Bethsoft&#8217;s Star Trek game that was, while absolutely hauntingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;M CARROT TOP!</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/08/im-carrot-top/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/08/im-carrot-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[worldcon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, first, happy August. I guess I&#8217;ve not been too great with keeping up with here, no excuses, nothing interesting to say.
The Democrats are slowly coming to Denver for the Convention, and my town is beginning to fill up. Tent cities are popping up around the Pepsi Center. Add to that 66th Annual WorldCon (Denvention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/a-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/a-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Drivers of Colorado,
My name is Stephen Van Doren. I make software for a living, and drive a motorcycle upwards of 2 hours a day, mostly on the highways. I am 28 years old, and live in Downtown Denver, in the Capitol Hill district, mere blocks from our gold-crowned capitol building. The charming beauty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8226; The Dark Knight</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/the-dark-knight/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/the-dark-knight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay. I could easily do a 30 second review of The Dark Knight, and look like this: See this movie. If you already have, see it again. If you want more information, keep reading&#8230;but there will be spoilers. It&#8217;s inevitable.

The Dark Knight is a movie written from source material that is a &#8220;comic book.&#8221; To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Growing Problem</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/a-growing-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/a-growing-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teh world]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
That&#8217;s what Albert Bartlett, retired professor of physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, says. I saw a lecture of his (granted, a low-budget video recording of it) last night. The concepts are not staggering in their complexity, the results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friendly Roads</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/friendly-roads/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/friendly-roads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[root]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you know, or don&#8217;t know, or don&#8217;t really care, I&#8217;m a motorcyclist who does not own a car. Which means my daily trek from downtown Denver to Louisville (~24 miles each way) is done on a bike, my cane bungee corded to the side and my backpack on the back seat. On really hot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8226; Hellboy 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/hellboy-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/hellboy-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[30 Seconds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introducing 30 Second Reviews!
I like to watch a lot of movies and read a lot of books and play a lot of video games. Problem is that I generally take a long time assimilating all my thoughts about the reviewed material, and either forget to cohesively write a review, or it ends up being so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Diana</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/oh-diana/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/oh-diana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[wingnuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I get updates from Diana DeGette through the email machine tube. She tells me all the things that I want to hear, and lots of things I don&#8217;t want to hear. She&#8217;s told me about the evils of the war in Iraq, of the splendidness of Democracy, and so on. Today she&#8217;s told me about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impossible Dream</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/the-impossible-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/the-impossible-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t ask for much.
But when I go to a special T-shirt store or something, I want to be greeted by at least one T-shirt with the design on the front featuring a unicorn fighting a panda.
Is this so damn much to ask for?
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		<title>It&#8217;s simply&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/its-simply/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/07/its-simply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[root]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Noise.
As you know, I work in the software development arena, and I&#8217;m constantly writing code, tap tap tapping on my keyboard, being bombarded by phone calls, emails, personal visits from confused coworkers&#8230;
This site outputs white noise through your browser. I came in this morning with a nasty headache. I popped this on, moved the slider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert!</title>
		<link>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/06/expert/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/2008/06/expert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svandoren</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[video games]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.brokenhattrick.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I don&#8217;t really have anything else to say about this. That&#8217;s 5 gold stars, a perfect performance, on expert difficulty level, in Rock Band on the Xbox 360.
Now you know why I haven&#8217;t posted in a while. Er, sorry.
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