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	<title>The Lair of the Cubelodyte &#187; Wordplay</title>
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	<description>The dronings of yet another IT worker. Dissatisfaction is guaranteed.</description>
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		<title>¿Que?</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/01/29/%c2%bfque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I saw a car on the road with a vanity license plate that read &#8220;DE PNGA&#8221;. Now, I understand that &#8220;de Pinga&#8221; can mean &#8220;amazing&#8221; or &#8220;wow&#8221;, but I originally learned the word &#8220;pinga&#8221; with the salty* meaning (if you&#8217;ll pardon the blue imagery, gentle reader) of &#8220;a gentleman&#8217;s phallus&#8221;; so it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FYI</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/01/23/fyi/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/01/23/fyi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The group I work in doesn&#8217;t always have a lot of say in the decision-making process, but we&#8217;re almost always impacted by those decisions. Server changes in other departments, software licensing agreements, firewall changes, whatever it is, it&#8217;s going to end up affecting our daily work to some degree.
To that end, we get a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Godspeed, Mr. Wong</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/01/18/godspeed-mr-wong/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/01/18/godspeed-mr-wong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim is moving ononly one explanationmust be the sunspots
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		<title>A Poorly-Chosen Acronym</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/10/30/a-poorly-chosen-acronym/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/10/30/a-poorly-chosen-acronym/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cubicle & Campus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our boss is ever on the lookout to improve processes, increase knowledge, and expand skillsets in our department. Nothing wrong with that. To that end, he&#8217;s got subscriptions to, and memberships in, various professional organizations, newsletters, and other industry-oriented stuff, and often forwards it our way. Nothing wrong with that, either.
I must admit, however, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unclear on the Concept</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/03/05/unclear-on-the-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/03/05/unclear-on-the-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movie about the Zodiac killer&#8217;s exploits and the ensuing investigations was released recently, and with great fanfare and noise in the greater Bay Area, the murderer&#8217;s old stomping grounds. Local radio and press outlets have been much abuzz over it.
I will likely not see this movie. Not so much because of any antipathy for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lonely Sort of Day</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/12/28/a-lonely-sort-of-day/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/12/28/a-lonely-sort-of-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cubicle & Campus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[no movement, no life
cold, bitter wind rustles leaves
deserted campus
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		<title>Slow Week</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/10/20/slow-week/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/10/20/slow-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;for bloggin&#8217;, anyhow. Busy week at work. All I have for you is haiku about my fourth week in this strange new environment. Because writing haiku is far easier than being clever (not that I would know anything about cleverness).
It&#8217;s been an interesting four weeks.
irate faculty
IET clearly to blame
plug it in first, prof
freshmen with laptops
&#34;all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spamerick</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/10/06/spamerick/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/10/06/spamerick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Various scumbags use spam;
trillions of e-mails they ram:
into your inbox,
from out of the boondocks,
a porn n&#8217; viagra flimflam.
]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Only Natural</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/09/20/its-only-natural/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/09/20/its-only-natural/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the advent of antibiotics, disease was one of nature&#8217;s primary tools to cull weaker members of a given species.
With that in mind, I find it amusing that the raw spinach contaminated with E. Coli O157:H7 has been traced back to a company named Natural Selection Foods.
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		<title>The Summer We 69ed</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/08/22/the-summer-we-69ed/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/08/22/the-summer-we-69ed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The voices in my head like to sing along when I listen to music, but they don&#8217;t always get the lyrics right. 
Sometimes their versions are much more amusing than the originals. This morning my clock radio woke me up to the strains of Bryan Adams&#8217; celebrated quasi-ballad Summer of &#8216;69; snatches of this alternate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geopolitical Geometry</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/06/14/geopolitical-geometry/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/06/14/geopolitical-geometry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my newspaper today was a front-page news &#8220;analysis&#8221; (read: &#8220;let us do the thinking for you&#8221;) discussing President Bush&#8217;s visit to Baghdad. In the article, the author opined that the visit was intended to show that Iraq was &#34;turning a corner&#34;. 
Then I got to thinking. If the factional squabbling and sectarian violence is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strepitous!</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/06/05/strepitous/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/06/05/strepitous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. This is just weird.
I&#8217;ve been getting hits from all over the place&#8212;Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, even Spain, of all places&#8212;and the referring URL has been from Ask.com. I don&#8217;t know anybody in any of those places, with the exception of one person in New York, and she visits very rarely. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spam Haiku</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/04/14/spam-haiku/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2006/04/14/spam-haiku/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My buddy Nate in Japan forwarded me a piece of spam the other day which was comprised of a bunch of randomly-selected words held together by random articles and prepositions. Garden variety stuff really, though sometimes you can pull amusing phrases out of them. This is what he sent:
wartime infringement goods surprise, warship hat vibrant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird and wonderful</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/08/08/weird-and-wonderful/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/08/08/weird-and-wonderful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[O distant Japan
  your foodstuffs are frightening 
  does it affect your children? 
slimy bean curd: yuck!
  your kitchens are redeemed, though,
  through weeniegami. 
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		<title>Insertion Error</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/05/08/insertion-error/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/05/08/insertion-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 01:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cubicle & Campus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday one of the phone techs comes over and tells us about this weird case where a particular student record (for some Vietnamese kid with a name of Dong &#8211; I know, &#34;ha ha, he said &#34;Dong&#34;, but it gets better, trust me) in their database seems to be screwing up searches. Without getting into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hentaiku</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/04/16/hentaiku/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/04/16/hentaiku/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After discussing something so uniquely Japanese as &#34;hentai&#34; pornography, I was suddenly compelled to write haiku about it.


underage coquette 
      vile, tentacled caresses 
      one hand is fapping
bizarre saucer eyes
      ridiculous purple hair
      weird faces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fucking cheap</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/02/14/fucking-cheap/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/02/14/fucking-cheap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have probably already heard about how our valiant allies in the struggle to spread liberty and tolerance across the globe deal with St. Valentine&#8217;s day. Here in decadent and debased America, however, not only do we celebrate this vilest, most prurient of festivals, we&#8217;re now beginning to discard all the pretense of romance and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Observations</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/12/17/random-observations/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/12/17/random-observations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really have any particular topic to write about today. Macworld San Francisco is coming up this next month, though! Like the Islamic Hajj, any Mac cult member is expected to make at least one pilgrimage to a Macworld conference, if he or she is at all able to make the journey. This shall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babelfish, the ego-booster</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/11/29/babelfish-the-ego-booster/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/11/29/babelfish-the-ego-booster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took the liberty of translating yesterday&#8217;s post with Altavista&#8217;s Babelfish. What a mess. It certainly gets the flavor across, but little of the grammar. I&#8217;m a bit happier now, knowing that, as rusty as my German is, it&#8217;s still better than that.
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		<title>&#220;bung: der Meistermacher</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/11/28/bung-der-meistermacher/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/11/28/bung-der-meistermacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2004 04:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ich wei&#223;, da&#223; mein Leserschaft alle Amerikanern sind (wenn Sie Ausl&#228;nder sind, Schreiben Sie mich! Ich will von euch h&#246;ren), und sie lesen nat&#252;rlich nur Englisch. Ich habe aber ein unerkl&#228;rlicher Lust auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Warum? Das kann ich nicht sagen. Es ist eine ganz lange Zeit gewesen, seit ich diese Sprache ben&#252;tzt habe. [...]]]></description>
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