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	<title>Dichroic Reflections</title>
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	<description>The Compliment of Rational Opposition</description>
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		<title>who needs an e-book?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of reasons not to buy an e-book. The foremost one is that you&#8217;re not much of a reader &#8211; if you aren&#8217;t, then it&#8217;s no more than a brick, a money-costing device you won&#8217;t use. Price isn&#8217;t much of a reason any more, now that e-books start at $139 (for the cheapest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2059</link>
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		<title>Soulless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone on my reading list was just discussing Soulless, by Gail Carriger. They liked it a lot. I have to say that I&#8217;m only about a tenth of the way through, but my emotions are mixed: I like the characters, the setting and the concepts. On the other hand, I am really bothered when, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2056</link>
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		<title>unspoilery comments on I Shall Wear Midnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not think Terry Pratchett has a good handle on what his Alzheimers disease will do next. The reason I say that is because of the remarkable balance he&#8217;s struck here: if we never get another Tiffany Aching book again, then this is a very grand finale, with some extremely interesting visits from people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2053</link>
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		<title>I Shall Wear Midnight!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are sometimes advantages to being in Europe. I just bought Terry Pratchett&#8217;s latest Tiffany Aching book, I Shall Wear Midnight &#8211; which won&#8217;t be released in the US until September 29. Ahem. neener (You could of course counter with all the movies that come out earlier in the US, but I don&#8217;t really care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2050</link>
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		<title>digressions and busy-ness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digression the first: There is something bizarre in CNN reporting that RUssia is using inflatable tanks in order to give the impression of greater military strength than the actuality. Churchill didn&#8217;t know how good he had it in those pre-CNN days when England used the same tactic. (OK, Chuurchill didn&#8217;t have it good at all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2048</link>
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		<title>scary stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote about annoying: today I have scary. Scary thing the first: I just got an email from the Democratic Party of Oregon. How do they even know? We just bought the house this month. Further, I think I was registered as an Independent when we last lived in the US; I&#8217;m registered with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2026</link>
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		<title>three annoyances and one discovery to make it all better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather annoying: a couple of poems I submitted to a new venue managed to get themselves lost, and there was no way for me to know that before learning that the lineup for the first issue was closed. To be clear, I&#8217;m not annoyed at the editor (who searched her mailbox promptly as soon as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2044</link>
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		<title>more fun with clothing (aka dressing in costumes isn&#8217;t necessarily bad, if you&#8217;re stealthy about it)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I like about layering clothing is the increased potential for stealth superhero outifts. Mostly that&#8217;s about the leggings, as well as the increased potential that the lowest layer of my top (not including bra) is a knit material that gives me a lot of freedom of motion. Not that I actually need much freedom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2040</link>
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		<title>editing != oversimplifying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I. Silliness, but Ted says I should blog this. I have wrinkles on my neck now &#8211; more like two separate rings, an inch or so apart. I&#8217;m not sure if they make me look younger or old. By human standards, wrinkles always say older, of course. But if you go by tree standards, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.riseagain.net/wp/?p=2038</link>
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		<title>book thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. I would have gotten around to reading Sarah Addison Allen&#8217;s Garden Spells a lot sooner if I&#8217;d known how strongly it would remind me of Mockingbird. No, not Mockingjay, Mockingbird, the one by Sean Stewart. Only it&#8217;s a bit cheerier and only the house (well the garden really) is a character, not the whole [...]]]></description>
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