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	<title>Garth Shoemaker</title>
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		<title>Windows 7: Not My Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get why everyone raves so much about Windows 7. In my mind Vista wasn&#8217;t that bad, considering it&#8217;s a Microsoft product. And Windows 7 seems to be about as good. I had some problems with Vista that have been fixed (or mostly fixed) in 7, e.g. Bluetooth support, but new problems have cropped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2010/06/30/windows-7-not-my-idea/</link>
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		<title>What I Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people have no idea what I do. Here&#8217;s a video of work that will be shown tomorrow at CHI 2010.

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		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2010/04/12/what-i-do/</link>
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		<title>Heavy Handed Foreshadowing in Movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched &#8220;Paycheck&#8221; last night. It&#8217;s about the third time I&#8217;ve seen it, and I quite like it, despite that fact that Ben Affleck is in it. I like the atmosphere, the music fits well, and the mystery is revealed at a good pace. What really struck me this time, though, was the crudeness with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2010/04/02/heavy-handed-foreshadowing-in-movies/</link>
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		<title>The Hurt Locker Hurt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought that blowing up bombs in Iraq could be boring. The Hurt Locker managed to make it so. I went into this movie with high hopes. I love war movies and war history. I&#8217;m currently reading through Max Hastings&#8217; histories of WWII (first &#8220;Overlord&#8221; and now &#8220;Armageddon&#8221;), and &#8220;Band of Brothers&#8221; is one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2010/03/25/the-hurt-locker-hurt/</link>
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		<title>The Lottery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some things that stick in my head forever. Some of these are situations where I had a particularly grating interaction with one person or another, and remain irritated by their ignorance and insistence that they are correct.
One such situation occured in grade 11, where we read Shirley Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;The Lottery&#8221; and had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2010/03/04/the-lottery/</link>
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		<title>Dairy Queen Has Lost Its Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid Dairy Queen was special. In the summer we would go for Mister Misty floats (now renamed something gender non-specific), and one time I even braved a banana split, minus the bananas of course. Then, when they invented the Blizzard in 1985, I felt my eyes had been opened to magical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2009/11/02/dairy-queen-has-lost-its-way/</link>
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		<title>Mad Men</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some TV shows make you feel smart. &#8220;Everybody Loves Raymond&#8221; makes me feel smart because every joke is both telegraphed and juvenile. &#8220;Stargate: Atlantis&#8221; makes me feel smart because I typically only need to watch the first 5 minutes in order to predict the plot of the remainder of the episode. So, while these shows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2009/10/18/mad-men/</link>
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		<title>Dying Newspapers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written about the impending death of newspapers. The wealth of information on the Internet is of course threatening the existence of newspapers, where what you are reading is filtered by editors that you may not agree with, can lag actual events by up to 24 hours (!), and costs money.
I actually like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2009/10/15/dying-newspapers/</link>
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		<title>Mechanic Car Interaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last several months the driver-side power window in my car has been sluggish going up and down. So, yesterday I spent 4 hours replacing two plastic guide bushings hidden in the innards of the door. The bushings are really simple tiny things, and cost about 50c each, but in order to put them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2009/08/24/mechanic-car-interaction/</link>
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		<title>I, For One, Welcome Our New Machine Overlords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been slowly making my way through Iain M. Banks&#8217; &#8220;Culture&#8221; series of novels. If you haven&#8217;t heard about them, they are a fairly new series of SF books dealing with a sprawling galactic society where almost all problems (e.g. war, poverty, mortality) have been solved. The members of the Culture spend their time hanging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garthshoemaker.com/2009/07/29/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-machine-overlords/</link>
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