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		<title>Bitter Seeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Tregillis&#8217; debut novel Bitter Seeds was not what I hoped it would be.  It has a cool idea, and the praise from George R. R. Martin made me hopeful that this would be my kind of SF yarn.  Unfortunately, the novel has some fundamental problems that undercut my enjoyment early on, and I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/07/31/bitter-seeds/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Film Thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyberpunk via Federico Fellini. I don&#8217;t know where that thought leads.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/07/06/todays-film-though/</link>
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		<title>Movie Education &#8211; May/June Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t do an update post or May because I thought I hadn&#8217;t seen enough to make it worth it, and decided I&#8217;d just wrap it into the next months&#8217; post.  Looking back, I saw 3 Education films, which is as good as some months; the follies of memory.  Ah well.  Here we go. Sleeper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/07/02/movie-education-mayjune-update/</link>
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		<title>Tanka #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m playing around with verse, which I&#8217;ve avoided writing most of my life.  I&#8217;m starting with the Japanese tanka, which has a 5-7-5-7-7 line structure.  Nice, short and a little restrictive. Anyway, it&#8217;s no good if you keep it hidden, so here&#8217;s my first.  More to come, I hope. Has the rain begun? Its drops [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/06/16/tanka-1/</link>
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		<title>Zero Sum Is No Win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder how many books will be written on the failure of network television.  Endless missteps combined with rapid changes in the technology of media have left it a hollow shell of itself.  The analysis will be nearly as endless, and probably as unsuccessful at keeping people in the future from making the same mistakes.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/05/19/zero-sum-is-no-win/</link>
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		<title>How Not To Make a Music Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, let&#8217;s just get it out there.  I like Lady Gaga.  She&#8217;s good pop.  Good pop is hard to find.  Clear?  Cool. That said, Telephone is a really horrible video. I don&#8217;t have a problem, in theory, with a 10 minute short film masquerading as a music video. I&#8217;m sure there are a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/05/15/how-not-to-make-a-music-video/</link>
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		<title>Movie Education &#8211; April Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bullitt You&#8217;ve probably heard of this film because of its classic car chase and little else.  That&#8217;s because the car chase is literally the only reason to see this movie.  It&#8217;s a brilliant scene wrapped in an utterly pedestrian police procedural.  There&#8217;s a mystery, but it&#8217;s nothing to write home about.  Or even write about, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/05/01/movie-education-april-update/</link>
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		<title>Every Talk With a Consulting Company Ever, Re: Commenting*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You: Our current code is completely uncommented. Do you comment your code? Them: Yes, we comment. You: Excellent, commented code is very important to us. Later&#8230; You: This code has no comments. Them: We will comment after things are done. You: &#8230;really? Finally&#8230; You: Wait, we&#8217;re all finished, where are the comments? Them: Allow us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/04/30/every-talk-with-a-consulting-company-ever-re-commenting/</link>
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		<title>Movie Education &#8211; March Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A hit or miss month for my movie education.  Let&#8217;s dive in. Drums Along the Mohawk Once again, I take a run at a John Ford film and bounce right off.  When I heard the description of this film &#8211; a newlywed couple moves to update New York and is besieged by attacking natives &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/04/04/movie-education-march-update/</link>
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		<title>A Good Plan, Today and Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The health care reform bill that passed the House of Representatives last night has taken a lot of fire, largely over things unrelated to the actual policy it enacts.  Now that it&#8217;s passed, the papers are doing legitimate policy analysis on what the bill does, not on the process that led to its passage. What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2010/03/22/a-good-plan-today-and-tomorrow/</link>
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