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		<title>Two Towers</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2011/09/11/two-towers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two towers stood tall and free. They were a beacon of liberty. Two towers looked out to the sea, But looming there was tragedy. Two towers knew not why it came, Yet the effect was seen all the same. Two &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2011/09/11/two-towers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two towers stood tall and free.<br />
They were a beacon of liberty.</p>
<p>Two towers looked out to the sea,<br />
But looming there was tragedy.</p>
<p>Two towers knew not why it came,<br />
Yet the effect was seen all the same.</p>
<p>Two towers felt the first blow,<br />
And to all around, time did slow.</p>
<p>Two towers captivated a nation&#8217;s glare,<br />
And all were wondering who would dare.</p>
<p>Two towers felt the deathly crash.<br />
Innocent&#8217;s days ended fast.</p>
<p>Two towers&#8217; supports gave their all,<br />
But soon did the first one fall.</p>
<p>One tower down; caught by surprise,<br />
Souls of victims began to rise.</p>
<p>Two towers were many&#8217;s bane<br />
As the second one, down it came.</p>
<p>Two towers&#8217; fires could not be tamed,<br />
And now the protector&#8217;s lives it claimed.</p>
<p>Two towers; more souls lost a hopeless fight,<br />
But in that loss, a county unite.</p>
<p>Never forget.</p>
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		<title>The Grammarless Planet</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2010/11/13/the-grammar-less-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a collection of silly errors and kinda mocking Über Grammar Nazis. In the distant planet of zippatheee, Grammar is all topsy-turvetyy. Yesterday you run all day, And said tomorrow you will want to lay. Someone drug you out &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2010/11/13/the-grammar-less-planet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a collection of silly errors and kinda mocking Über Grammar Nazis.</p>
<p>In the distant planet of zippatheee,<br />
Grammar is all topsy-turvetyy.</p>
<p>Yesterday you run all day,<br />
And said tomorrow you will want to lay.</p>
<p>Someone drug you out the door,<br />
And ain’t is correct, Oh horror!</p>
<p>They say “The Elements of Style” are hard and fast rules<br />
(Glad to know we aren’t the only fools.)</p>
<p>You slept tomorrow night, sawed a dog,<br />
Think different, and catched a frog!</p>
<p>But now we end the grammatical hilarity.<br />
We don’t want to give sticklers a coronary.</p>
<p>In the distant land of zippatheee,<br />
Grammar is all topsy-turvetyy,</p>
<p>But here on earth there is no lament.<br />
Our rules at least are set in cement.</p>
<p>How many errors are there?<br />
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<span>The Grammarless Planet</span> by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2010/11/13/the-grammar-less-planet/">James Peach</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>.</p>
<p>Just to make it clear to you. You are free to copy the poem or use my &#8220;template&#8221; to make your own. Just post the above bit into it.</p>
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		<title>Miscellaneous Mishaps</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2010/07/24/miscellaneous-mishaps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a man were out for a Sunday afternoon flight on a small private plane. Suddenly, the plane developed engine trouble. In spite of the best efforts of the pilot, the plane started &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2010/07/24/miscellaneous-mishaps/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a man were out for a Sunday afternoon flight on a small private plane. Suddenly, the plane developed  engine trouble.<br />
In spite of the best efforts of the pilot, the plane started to go down.  Finally, the pilot grabbed a parachute, yelled to the passengers that  they had better jump, and bailed out.<br />
Unfortunately, there were only three parachutes remaining.<br />
The doctor grabbed one and said &#8220;I&#8217;m a doctor, I save lives, so I must live,&#8221; and jumped out.<br />
The lawyer then said, &#8220;I&#8217;m a lawyer and lawyers are the smartest people in the world. I deserve to live.&#8221;<br />
He also grabbed a parachute and jumped.<br />
The man looked at the little boy and said, &#8220;Child, I&#8217;ve lived a long and full life. You are young and have your whole life ahead of you. Take the last parachute and live in peace.&#8221;<br />
The little boy handed the parachute back to the man smiling and said, &#8220;Not to worry, Sir. The &#8216;smartest man in the world&#8217; just took off with my back pack.&#8221;<br />
Moral: Pride comes before a fall.</p>
<p>Three guys, stranded on a desert island, find a magic lantern containing a genie, who grants them each one wish. The first guy wishes he was off the island and back home. The second guy wishes the same. The third guy says &#8220;I&#8217;m lonely. I wish my friends were back here.&#8221;</p>
<p>A guy is sitting at home when he hears a knock at the door. He opens the door and sees a snail on the porch. He picks up the snail and throws it as far as he can. Three years later, there&#8217;s a knock on the door. He opens it and sees the same snail. The snail says &#8220;What was that all about?&#8221;</p>
<p>A village in the alps was popular because of their village loon. The man when offered a nickle or a dime he would always choose the nickel. They say it was because he thought the nickle was better because it was bigger. One day a man came up to him and said &#8220;Do you know that a dime is worth more than a nickle?&#8221; The loon replied &#8220;Yea but if I choose the dime they&#8217;ll stop giving me free money.&#8221;</p>
<p>A guy has a talking dog. He brings it to a talent scout. &#8220;This dog can speak English,&#8221; he claims to the unimpressed agent. &#8220;Okay, Sport,&#8221; the guys says to the dog, &#8220;what&#8217;s on the top of a house?&#8221; &#8220;Roof!&#8221; the dog replies. &#8220;Oh, come on&#8230;&#8221; the talent agent responds. &#8220;All dogs go ruff.&#8221; &#8220;No, wait,&#8221; the guy says. He asks the dog &#8220;what does sandpaper feel like?&#8221; &#8220;Rough!&#8221; the dog answers. The talent agent gives a condescending blank stare. He is losing his patience. &#8220;No, hang on,&#8221; the guy says. &#8220;This one will amaze you. &#8221; He turns and asks the dog: &#8220;Who, in your opinion, was the greatest baseball player of all time?&#8221; &#8220;Ruth!&#8221; goes the dog. And the talent scout, having seen enough, boots them out of his office onto the street. And the dog turns to the guy and says &#8220;Maybe I shoulda said DiMaggio?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Cute pic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Got this somewhere while browsing pictures of rabbits.</p>
<img class="size-full wp-image-78" title="clappitty" src="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/clappitty.gif" alt="Cute" width="156" height="156" />
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		<title>Facts</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2009/08/15/facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well can&#8217;t find a few questions for TT11 so I&#8217;m going turn the tables and instead of asking the questions of trivia. I am going to tell you trivia. A episode of the popular show Pokemon. Showed a fight with &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2009/08/15/facts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well can&#8217;t find a few questions for TT11 so I&#8217;m going turn the tables and instead of asking the questions of trivia. I am going to tell you trivia.</p>
<p>A episode of the popular show Pokemon. Showed a fight with a certian red light pattern that caused seizures all over the country. This event was so bad it could only be made worse by a human with no common sense. Guess. A news reporter thought that it would be good for publicity if he showed a in case you missed it clip. I&#8217;ll take another round of seizures please. Human stupidity: 1 common sense: 0. Put another for the winning team for the makers not testing. One for the losing team for not showing the episode ever again. Final score; sense: 1 no sense: 2. What is this world coming to?</p>
<p>Spider silk is VERY strong. Even though a small item can cut through it when you see it hanging around. A string of silk the width of a pencil can stop a Boeing 747 in flight!</p>
<p>Back to the common sense game! Last time it was no sense 2 sense 1. Now see if we can top it. A man wanted to find out the contents of his car petrol tank. So what do you think he used to see in there? A flash light and found that like the name states petroleum! No change in score because it was a bad question but he did it sensibly&#8230; I wish! Now what do you think he really used? Lamp? No. Match? closer. Lighter? We have a winner!! He used the lighter and he quickly found out the contents were flammable petroleum. Well he was parked by his trailer home and this genius decided to rip out the tank and send it flying. No not in the direction of his house but he threw it without the cap on so the burning contents went towards well&#8230; everywhere. To top it off his wife went back in to get the dog and got severley injured. Now the score is the score is sense 2 one more for getting rid of the tank. No sense 6 one for the question one for the lighter one for not putting the cap back on one for his wife going back in.</p>
<p>I mightmake a 2 but with updates going slowly I may not.</p>
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		<title>Orion Update</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2009/02/06/orion-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember back in 2007 when I told about the Orion spacecraft? Well guess what this is NASA&#8217;s schedule now. 2009 (Sep) AA-1 (Ascent Abort-1) unmanned ascent abort test (transonic) 2010 (Spring) PA-2 unmanned pad abort test 2010 (August) AA-2 unmanned &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2009/02/06/orion-update/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember back in 2007 <a title="Older post" href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2007/08/30/orion-the-new-spacecraft/">when I told about the Orion spacecraft?</a> Well guess what this is NASA&#8217;s schedule now.</p>
<ul>
<li>2009 (Sep) AA-1 (Ascent Abort-1) unmanned ascent abort test (transonic)</li>
<li>2010 (Spring) PA-2 unmanned pad abort test</li>
<li>2010 (August) AA-2 unmanned ascent abort test (Max Q)</li>
<li>2011 (February) AA-3 unmanned ascent abort test (low-altitude tumble test)</li>
<li>2012 (September) Ares I-Y unmanned ascent abort test (high altitude)</li>
<li>2012 First unmanned flight of Orion in Earth orbit.</li>
<li><strong>2014 (September) First manned flight of Orion in Earth orbit.</strong></li>
<li>2015 &#8211; 2018 First unmanned flight of Altair.</li>
<li>2016 &#8211; 2018 First manned flight of Altair.</li>
<li><strong>2019 First manned lunar landing with Orion/Altair system.</strong></li>
<li>2020 start of planning for Mars missions</li>
<li>2037 Possible date of manned arrival on Mars hinted at by Michael Griffin, the NASA administrator</li>
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<p>By the way space shuttles will be kept running until 2010. Space station is to be completed by WHO KNOWS WHEN. Sigh no info on it. Enjoy this piece of info.</p>
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		<title>Lamentations code</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2009/02/04/lamentations-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the book of lamentations chapter 3 has a interesting sequence. In Hebrew alphabet there are 22 letters in this book chapters 1,2,4, and 5 have 22 verses in order of the Hebrew alphabet. Only in Hebrew writings do you &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2009/02/04/lamentations-code/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the book of lamentations chapter 3 has a interesting sequence. In Hebrew alphabet there are 22 letters in this book chapters 1,2,4, and 5 have 22 verses in order of the Hebrew alphabet. Only in Hebrew writings do you see this. But chapter 3 has 66 verses. Verses 1,2, and 3 for the first letter. 4,5, And 6 for the second and so forth. This may be a sad book but a very interesting sequence. I thought it was interesting and decided to make a version of it for a code. Randomly put in for a 1,2, or 3 for b 4,5,6 you get the picture. Until 76,77,78 for z. Decipher this.</p>
<p>46,32,13,59,60,75 8,44,43,36 22,63,24.</p>
<p>use this code to baffle pepole or for a password or passphrase. (Hint. To find out what letter is what number. Change into letter corresponding by its place in the alphabet like 1-a 2-b to 26-z. Then multiply by 3 and subtract two and that is the lowest number you can have for that letter.) (Another hint. To find a number check to see if it is a multiple of 3. If not round up to the nearest multiple of 3. then divide by three and then find out which letter is that number. Such as 1-a 2-b to 26-z. Like this. 19 rounded up to the next multiple of three whitch is 21. Divide 21 by 3 to get 7 go from a to the seventh letter of the alphabet which is g. There you go.)</p>
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		<title>Traveling</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2009/01/23/traveling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m traveling right now. Going to be doing this frequently. You will still get posts as frequently. I should have a puzzle out soon.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m traveling right now. Going to be doing this frequently. You will still get posts as frequently. I should have a puzzle out soon.</p>
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		<title>Trivia Time 10 !!!!! SP GRAB BAG!</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2008/12/14/trivia-time-10-sp-grab-bag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[YAY! NUMBER 10 this means something special! This time around there are 10 questions and answers. All questions are grab bag questions. Ready? Set? GO! 1.  What is the temperature that aluminum melts at ? 2.  A singer called Rick &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2008/12/14/trivia-time-10-sp-grab-bag/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>YAY! NUMBER 10 this means something special! This time around there are 10 questions and answers. All questions are grab bag questions. Ready? Set? GO!</p>
<p>1.  What is the temperature that aluminum melts at ?</p>
<p>2.  A singer called Rick Astley is known for if you get jokingly tricked to be sent to one of his videos on youtube they say you&#8217;ve been _______ what is the correct phrase?</p>
<p>3.  R.O.B was a add on for the NES that helped it be liked in America during the video game crash. How many games were for it?</p>
<p>4. Why will you die if you eat a polar bear&#8217;s liver?</p>
<p>5. True or false. The great wall of china is the only man made object on earth visible from space with the naked eye.</p>
<p>6. At 30 inches per step how many steps are there in a mile?</p>
<p>7. Decode. Code is take out every u,y,g,and f also every other i: huiyg tughuyeyyfguirguuyguuggye</p>
<p>8. The Wii was released when?</p>
<p>9. Facebook was released to only Harvard students at first this was when?</p>
<p>10. The song &#8220;We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8221;originated in what century?</p>
<p>Merry Christmas! Answers will be here at Christmas.</p>
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		<title>Geocaching</title>
		<link>http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2008/11/29/geocaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found out about geocaching from my dad. It is a fun sport that you use a GPS system to find certain caches that people hid. They can be very hard or hard; never super easy. It is very &#8230; <a href="http://james.mythoughtspot.com/2008/11/29/geocaching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently found out about <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/" title="Geocaching" target="_blank">geocaching</a> from my dad. It is a fun sport that you use a GPS system to find certain caches that people hid. They can be very hard or hard; never super easy. It is very fun. Check it out.</p>
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