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		<title>Birthday Dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend we celebrated Megan&#8217;s birthday with dinner and some friends out on our porch. We were lucky to have a fairly cool evening and the bugs stayed away at least for the first part of the meal&#8230; I should have been better about taking more pictures of the people and food, but I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RadioLab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent a lot of hours driving and cleaning the house lately, and that means I&#8217;ve also been listening to a lot of podcasts. Lately I&#8217;ve been especially enjoying Radiolab, a show out of the public radio station in New York.  My good buddies Chris Knauer and Ira Glass both recommended the show to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back Porch Farming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been farming virtual popcorn on this blog for a while now, but this year Megan and I decided to try our hand at some plants for our back porch.  The term porch is a bit generous, it is more likely an empty concrete swimming pool sticking off the back of our townhouse, but at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popcornfarmer.com/2010/06/back-porch-farming/</link>
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		<title>T-Mail: The Transit of Venus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each week, it is my job within the department to send out the emails announcing various department events like &#8220;Thursday Tea&#8221; and &#8220;Monday Morning Coffee&#8221;.  As the official &#8220;Message Meister&#8221; elected by the other grad students, I am supposed to impart some wit and humor into these messages.  Apparently I do this well enough that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popcornfarmer.com/2010/04/t-mail-the-transit-of-venus/</link>
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		<title>Ireland Trip Notes &#8211; 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While cleaning out my web directory I just found some notes I had written during a trip to Ireland in Summer 2006 for a conference. It was my first conference trip as a graduate student, and I was presenting work done by another student from my lab. Rather than just let my notes disappear into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gal&#8217;s Departure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our good friends and former roommate, Gal, was recently deported back to Israel due to visa issues. To commemorate his departure a group of us had a farewell dinner with a ton of good food and a liquid ton of good wine. Gal made a fennel pork roast that has possibly the greatest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popcornfarmer.com/2010/03/gals-departure/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Part 2 &#8211; Kiddies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After spending a few nights at my Dad&#8217;s we went down to stay with Megan&#8217;s family in Lynchburg for Christmas. We spent most of our time entertaining Megan&#8217;s nieces who are quite adorable.]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas 2009 Part 1 &#8211; Nelson County VA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas Megan and I went down to Virginia to visit both of our families. We first stopped at my dad&#8217;s (relatively) new house in the boonies (AKA Nelson County). Nic and Alison met us there the first night and we had a delicious dinner.  We had a few gifts to exchange and stuffed ourselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popcornfarmer.com/2010/01/christmas-2009-part-1/</link>
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		<title>An Ambitious Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Red=Day 1, Blue=Day 2. View a larger map This is a long overdue post about the canoeing trip Megan and I took along with a group of my old highschool chums: Chris, Matt G. and Mike. The plan was an overnight trip from Dingman&#8217;s Ferry down about 28 miles to the Kittatinny Point Visitor Center. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popcornfarmer.com/2009/11/an-ambitious-plan/</link>
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		<title>Barn Wedding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend my friends Bill and Aimee tied the knot in a quaint barn down in Jersey. The wedding itself was a lot of fun, with plenty of good food and some nice touches like a hot apple cider bar with various &#8220;adult&#8221; fixins. It also served as a great reunion for my group of [...]]]></description>
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