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	<title>mwotw</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Confessions of a Fishkeeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Essays, etc.</category>
	<category>Metaphysics</category>
	<category>Historical</category>
	<category>Unfinished</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought my first aquarium when I was 10 years old. It was one of those &#8220;everything&#8221; for $8.99 deals, where you got an Ambassador 10 gallon tank (trimmed in slick black plastic), an air pump, an inside filter, 2 feet of airline tubing, a packet of fish food and a plastic bag with 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mas MOSFETs, please</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/mas-mosfets-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Historical</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to appropriate the term &#8220;MOSFET&#8221; for use by technology marketers, and to confer upon it the following signification in our jargon: A MOSFET is a new technology intended to recreate the effects of an old one.
Some years ago, when I was an audiophile and used to spend a lot of time reading high-end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doodling</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/doodling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/doodling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
	<category>Art</category>
	<category>Psychology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just realized the reason doodling is so important is because it is so telling of us.  We doodle only when we are so very distracted by something else, that a part of our bodies (and with it a part of our minds) has felt free enough to produce without effort.  That&#8217;s kinda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Trip Installments</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/road-trip-installments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/road-trip-installments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Stories</category>
	<category>Unfinished</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are some short notes I penned at motels and road stops between Portland and Chicago, during a roadtrip I undertook with a friend last October.  They were intended for another blog, which never materialized.  So here they are, instead.
Portland, OR (10/18/2006)
An old friend of Joe&#8217;s let us park the rig on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The art of the deal</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/the-art-of-the-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Jews</category>
	<category>Historical</category>
	<category>Unfinished</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2HousePlague (04:00 PM) :
you&#8217;re  a history buff, yes?
hudson (04:01 PM) :
not too much, but I like interesting things
hudson (04:01 PM) :
what&#8217;s that?
2HousePlague (04:01 PM) :
[a business letter]
2HousePlague (04:01 PM) :
it&#8217;s an interesting letter written by an enterprising fellow a long time ago
2HousePlague (04:01 PM) :
basically, he has no money
2HousePlague (04:02 PM) :
but he&#8217;s trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stone Soup</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/stoned-soup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/stoned-soup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 03:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Jews</category>
	<category>Ethics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Once upon a time in Eastern Europe there was a band of gypsies who&#8217;s thing it was to go house to house whenever they were hungry and hadn&#8217;t any means.  They&#8217;d ring a random doorbell and ask whomever answered for a pot to cook in and a stone.  
&#8220;That&#8217;s all we need for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerless Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fiction</category>
	<category>1996</category>
	<category>Sociology</category>
	<category>Historical</category>
	<category>Unfinished</category>
	<category>Ethics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been the sort of person to sit and stare at something I&#8217;ve made for a long time after making it. I like to move on.  If you had asked me right after I &#8220;finished&#8221; writing Ferus Rex whether it was going to be the only novel I ever wrote, I would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the Assemblage Point</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/moving-the-assemblage-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Metaphysics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those already familiar with Carlos Castaneda and his anthropological field work in Northern Mexico will recognize the term &#8220;Assemblage Point&#8221;.  It is much used throughout Castaneda&#8217;s twelve books, which chronicle his experiences with a Yaqui Indian named Don Juan Matus between 1960 and about 1975.   
Assemblage Point relates to the description of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working smart</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/working-smart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/working-smart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Physics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to think that &#8220;working smart&#8221;, as in the expression &#8220;Don&#8217;t work hard, work smart&#8220;, was essentially the same thing as being lazy.  Because the smart work of some seems to go further than the hard work of others, those who have a capacity for smart work don&#8217;t  seem to work very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Responsibility Deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/responsibility-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/responsibility-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Psychology</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is generally accepted that we are all responsible for our actions.  
Except for when we&#8217;re kids, that is.  
When you are a minor, you are absolved of at least partial responsibility for what you do.  The young get breaks, lighter sentences, second chances and are afforded a number of clemencies they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Claus more powerful than God</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/santa-claus-more-powerful-than-god/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/santa-claus-more-powerful-than-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Logic dictates that Santa Claus must be more powerful than God, at least if you&#8217;re a kid.  When we ask Santa Claus for things, we are given them much more often than we have answers to our prayers.


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		<title>Complex Blog Networks</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/complex-blog-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/complex-blog-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>Advanced Mathematics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day, Millions of surfers make their way from mainstream sites to porn sites. Sometimes they do it directly, via direct navigation and bookmarks, and sometimes they make their way in steps, through a sequence of sites. This is what I call macro-scale &#8220;Spectrumming,&#8221; which happens naturally all over the web, and refers to establishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touring the Mandelbrot Set</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/touring-the-mandelbrot-set/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/touring-the-mandelbrot-set/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>2001</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Advanced Mathematics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Mandelbrot Set may offer us a true and terrifying glimpse of &#8220;divine intelligence&#8221;. It may be a Rosetta of Creation. There is a place just beyond philosophy and outside of mathematics, where only the poet can go. His capacity for awe and sensitivity to beauty cast a light where others find only darkness. Emerson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Charlie Kaufman</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/thank-you-charlie-kaufman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Sociology</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Charlie Kaufman has helped me to understand the (still grander) power of cinema, now that the formative conventions of theatre have begun to lose their effect.
The medium *film* is NOT like life.
Comparing books and movies is going to get even more absurd.
Previously, popular films begat novelizations.
Hereforward, keep yer eyes open for the effects of film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slave in Heaven or Reign in Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/slave-in-heaven-or-reign-in-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/slave-in-heaven-or-reign-in-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>2005</category>
	<category>Religion</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Unfinished</category>
	<category>Ethics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the ways in which &#8220;opposing&#8221; Things are held in balance, as in the question of &#8220;&#8221;Religion vs. Science&#8221;", and also about the ways the lines between &#8220;separate&#8221; Things can sometimes get blurry, or even erased, as in &#8220;The Essence of Judaism: Spirit or Blood&#8221;.
Tonight I want to discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Room</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/emergency-room/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/emergency-room/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 08:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fiction</category>
	<category>2001</category>
	<category>Death</category>
	<category>Ethics</category>
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Come into the emergency room. Feet first, if you can. I especially enjoy the surprising ways in which the color red makes its cunning leap from the spiraling ambulance light into the fluorescent world of the inside hospital. Cunning and subtle. The smell, only the smell of blood, which is of course brilliant red in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dachau Donuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 08:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fiction</category>
	<category>2001</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Death</category>
	<category>Jews</category>
	<category>Historical</category>
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Never does the mortal experience so crave its wings as in those moments before death. Press &#8220;PLAY.&#8221; So, I heave my tired bones from some gothic summit, surmounted by the fierceness of a purple sky, where millions of bats are making their dark festivities in the air. Very nice. Already I can take my cue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seal Hunter</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/the-seal-hunter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/the-seal-hunter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 07:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Verse</category>
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>2001</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By silent speculations of the oar,
(I row a gainless line, just as before
the hardness of the stone returns the strike.
The waters of my passing run alike,
unvaried to the constance of my prow.)
I seek among the ice flows. He is now
too near! A quarry fleeting from my sight
advances with the swiftness of the night.
But Winter&#8217;s dearth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferus Rex, a Novel Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/ferus-rex-novel-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/ferus-rex-novel-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 21:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fiction</category>
	<category>Spanish</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Death</category>
	<category>Sex</category>
	<category>1997</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Ferus Rex is a novel I wrote between 1993 and 1997, while living in New York. I wrote most of it while working as a banker in Tower 2 of the World Trade Center. I had lots of time, as it worked out. My job was Credit Analyst, which meant that I reviewed prospective commercial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lemmings, the Cliff and the Shining Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/lemmings-the-cliff-and-the-shining-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mywordsontheweb.com/jack/lemmings-the-cliff-and-the-shining-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jack</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Business</category>
	<category>2005</category>
	<category>Stories</category>
	<category>Philosophy</category>
	<category>Jews</category>
	<category>Sex</category>
	<category>Unfinished</category>
	<category>Marketing</category>
	<category>Psychology</category>
	<category>Advanced Mathematics</category>
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The writer guy wakes up one morning miraculously inspired to work again.  Mind you, he has had no contact with anyone from the outside in decades, except for the troll-like personage who brings him food twice per day through a little slot in the door, but with whom writer guy never exchanges anything but [...]]]></description>
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