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	<title>Austin Antics &#187; Books</title>
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	<description>The Adventures Of Ron &#38; Evelyn</description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Glass Of Wine&#8221; Book</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/01/17/a-glass-of-wine-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you need to get away from all the instant bad news. I believe that we, as a nation, are turning into a bunch of pussies because all we hear is a shipload of evilness. Day in and out you have earthquakes, airport scares, child abductions, murders, markets crashing, and on and on. Trouble is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. History &#8212; In Graphic Illustrated Form</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/01/12/u-s-history-in-graphic-illustrated-form/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2010/01/12/u-s-history-in-graphic-illustrated-form/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents were nice enough to get me this book for Christmas:

It&#8217;s the &#8220;Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide&#8221; to U.S. History and is written by an old co-worker and friend, Ken Hite.
It breaks U.S. history up into five parts, starting right before the Revolutionary War and goes to current time (the election of Obama). You can easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking For Vintage Science Fiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old friend of ours is selling off a sizable portion of her very excellent Science Fiction collection. Take a look at her store:
Vintage Science Fiction
I can attest that she takes very good care of her books, and has collected a very impressive library.

If you are into Science Fiction, I highly recommend taking a look. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magazines Now On Google Books</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/12/11/magazines-now-on-google-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Google has put up a bunch of old magazines on the Google Books site. Probably the most interseting to me is the entire collection of Popular Science &#8212; that&#8217;s 138 years of the magazine! (Though, they were mostly just text until about 1917 when they started doing full-color covers.) Facinating stuff. Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strangest Package</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/09/16/the-strangest-package/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be, without compare, the strangest package that I&#8217;ve ever received. As the USPS mailman said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this before.&#8221;

It&#8217;s a big picture because it&#8217;s a big Royal Mail mailbag! Four feet high and thirteen pounds of Great Britain Post! It even flew American Airlines (flight AA107) from Heathrow to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multimedia Musings</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/08/10/multimedia-musings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a random selection of things we&#8217;ve been into recently. If the dog days of summer are keeping you inside, perhaps you&#8217;ll consider one of more of these.
Persepolis : This is a graphic novel, turned into an animated movie.  We saw the movie. It&#8217;s a great coming-of-age story for adults. The twist? It&#8217;s set in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culling The Magazines</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/07/02/culling-the-magazines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We used to subscribe to a lot of magazines. A couple on cooking, a smattering of science, history, weekly news, work-related, and on and on. Recently, I&#8217;ve been taking a hard look at what we subscribe to, and what we get out of them.
I love magazines, because they are usually topical and current. More of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronics Book Roundup</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/03/31/electronics-book-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Handmade Electronic Music

I start out first with a recent purchase, a book called Handmade Electronic Music. This is a really nice introduction to making your own musical gadgets. The author starts out with the basics, get&#8217;s into circuit &#8216;bending&#8217; (modifying existing electronic gizmos), and then moves toward more complex work using CMOS chips.
Nothing here is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Denial Of Death</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/02/14/the-denial-of-death/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/02/14/the-denial-of-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me know that I shy away from reading fiction. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t enjoy a good novel and the like, but that I&#8217;ve only so much time, so want to focus on reading &#8220;meatier&#8221; things. (This is a big unfair, I know, as a good piece of fiction can illuminate more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Your Memories &#8212; In Books</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/01/07/saving-your-memories-in-books/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2008/01/07/saving-your-memories-in-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evelyn likes taking photos. With the advent of digital cameras she ends up taking many, many photos. The problem is that she now has tens of thousands of them, most of which are locked up on a computer somewhere. Besides the sheer quantities of photos involved, we have another problem: distribution. Many of the people we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Love Me, Puerto Rico&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/10/16/love-me-puerto-rico/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/10/16/love-me-puerto-rico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day Evelyn found a book called &#8220;Love Me, Puerto Rico&#8221; at a local book store. It&#8217;s by an American woman named Mary Louise Edwards who moved to PR in the early 1960s. After cracking open the book and reading &#8220;there&#8217;s no phone service here&#8221;, I knew it was one I wanted to read.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Think I&#8217;ll Avoid Brazil</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/07/21/i-think-ill-avoid-brazil/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/07/21/i-think-ill-avoid-brazil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to be traveling to Brazil any time soon. Not that I was planning on it, though checking out the Amazon sounds cool. Their air travel has really been a mess. First we had that crash between the private jet and commerical airliner, and now we have the one of several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Paris To Harry</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/07/18/from-paris-to-harry/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/07/18/from-paris-to-harry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when the hype about Ms. Hilton was dying down, now all I hear about is that damn Potter book and how &#8220;fans are crying&#8221; because the ending was leaked.
Lighten up, Francis! It&#8217;s a book, it&#8217;s not your life. If you are worred about learning about the ending, maybe you shouldn&#8217;t be doing Google searches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Book Makes Me Hungry</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/07/01/this-book-makes-me-hungry/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/07/01/this-book-makes-me-hungry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While visiting our friend in Fort Smith AR we stopped at a used bookstore. Small-town bookstores can be pretty small and/or disappointing. However, the great thing about them is that they often have treasures hidden on their shelves. This is especially true of things like cookbooks. You see, in the Big City all those old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vonnegut Short Story: 2 B R 0 2 B</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/05/04/vonnegut-short-story-2-b-r-0-2-b/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/05/04/vonnegut-short-story-2-b-r-0-2-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project Gutenberg has posted a &#8220;new&#8221; short story. Originally published in 1962, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s been re-printed since. It&#8217;s worth a look for those interested in Vonnegut. Check it out here: 2 B R 0 2 B
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		<title>Similarity or Is it?</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/04/22/similarity-or-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/04/22/similarity-or-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were watching Fahrenheit 451 the other day. I&#8217;m amazed at how a movie filmed in 1966 can still look so fresh and vibrant. For those who have not watched it, this movie is based on Ray Bradbury&#8217;s 1953 novel &#8220;Fahrenheit 451.&#8221; Roughly it&#8217;s about a society that has banned all written form of books, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sad Day For Readers: Kurt Vonnegut Dies</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/04/12/sad-day-for-readers-kurt-vonnegut-dies/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/04/12/sad-day-for-readers-kurt-vonnegut-dies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Novelist Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at age 84. So it goes.
If you haven&#8217;t read much of his stuff, take a look at some of these novels: The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Jailbird, and Cat&#8217;s Cradle. The &#8216;required reading&#8217; novel would be Slaughterhouse-Five.
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		<title>One Man&#8217;s Wilderness</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/01/27/one-mans-wilderness/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/01/27/one-mans-wilderness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished a book called &#8220;One Man&#8217;s Wilderness&#8221; by Sam Keith. It&#8217;s the book form of Richard (Dick) Proenneke&#8217;s diary. Proenneke moved to Alaska in the late 1960&#8217;s and kept detailed diaries of his adventures.
It&#8217;s a great book for those interesting in reading more about someone who moved away from &#8220;civilization&#8221; (like An Island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Anton Wilson Dies</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/01/11/robert-anton-wilson-dies/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2007/01/11/robert-anton-wilson-dies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAW, writer and philosopher, died today. His most famous works focused on conspiracies and how we got so easily wrapped up in them. A nutty guy who was dying in poverty until his plight was broadcast of the Internet and a bunch of people donated money. (He was dying, and was about to be evicted. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books For Holmes Fans</title>
		<link>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2006/12/13/books-for-holmes-fans/</link>
		<comments>http://sybarite.us/puertorico/2006/12/13/books-for-holmes-fans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those interested in Sherlock Holmes may want to check out a couple of books I recently picked up.
The first is called The Science of Sherlock Holmes by E.J. Wagner. It&#8217;s a short (200 page) book that covers the forensic science behind the stories. It illustrates how many of the stories used (what was) cutting edge [...]]]></description>
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