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		<title>Stating the obvious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the day doing nothing. (Oh, I&#8217;m sorry &#8211; maybe that should have been a tweet?) I&#8217;m feeling these days that blogs are as dead as Flash, but recently I saw a tweet heralding the decline of Twitter. All things must pass, I guess. But in the throes of my nothing-doing today, I spent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Say goodbye to Michael for me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I often heard the maxim that &#8220;nobody can forget where they were when they learned that JFK had been shot.&#8221; I was on Twitter when I learned that Michael Jackson had passed. Not quite sure, but I think I was at work in Cambridge. When you&#8217;re in Twitterspace, do your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=66</link>
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		<title>Happy Father&#8217;s Day, Mr. Zappa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Frank, I&#8217;m hitting another milestone year. On my next birthday, I will have officially lived longer than you did. My first one of these milestone years was when I turned 38, and I realized that I had lived as long as my dad had until he was killed in a motorcycle accident in Manhattan. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Pencil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Dad, I keep meaning to write to you. Sorry it&#8217;s been so long. Anyway, whatever, as they say. I woke up yesterday thinking about a question I meant to ask you when I was in kindergarten or first grade. The question, as I remember it, is this: When you&#8217;re looking at a blank piece [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Laurel Ann Bowman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was devastated to learn this week that my pal, colleague, confidante and mentor Laurel Bowman passed away. Wait a minute &#8211; weren&#8217;t we supposed to grow old together and sit around the Old Ad Folks Home and talk about how kids know nothing anymore and how it was back in the day? Weren&#8217;t we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Zappa Plays Bicycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally, I&#8217;m not one of those bloggers that post a lot of video, but I&#8217;m still savoring the recent Zappa tribute on WZBC that I did with James and Matt. Along the way, the conversation turned briefly to the famed Zappa-on-bicycle bit, so here it is &#8211; as long as it stays posted on YouTube. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>The Future Futures Index Is Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think back to ancient history &#8211; like before Al Gore invented the Internet. I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing the top story of the hour being &#8220;American Stock Exchange futures are down, due to heavy losses in Asian and European markets&#8221;. I reckon that we can now know this because we can all see stock performance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=47</link>
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		<title>Barefoot children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking hard about a site redesign for my minimalist, boring link page casually known as sendai77.com. The problem is me of course: i&#8217;m the client, the writer, the designer, the technical consultant, the developer, and the cobbler. More about me: I&#8217;m a busy consultant for IBM. I use the word &#8220;consultant&#8221; loosely: in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=43</link>
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		<title>SBUX and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a quirky consumer. If I didn&#8217;t have to be a consumer, I&#8217;d be quirky, period. If I wasn&#8217;t quirky, I&#8217;d be a plain old consumer. I know. Self-fulfilling truisms. But they&#8217;ve been banging around in my head for a few weeks, and it all came tumbling out for me when I read an article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Trouble in Narnia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually, NPR stimulates my ears in the morning in order to get me up and out the door for work. Often, it also stimulates my brain and I dash out thinking, &#8220;I should write about that&#8221;. No time, gotta catch that train. The case today is one such moment. I heard the NPR film critic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sendai77.com/blog/?p=40</link>
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