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		<title>I am 28</title>
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	...and I have nothing to note to mark the occasion.

	Older, yet not wiser.
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		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/02/22/i-am-28/</link>
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		<title>I am going to miss (grad) school</title>
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I like being at at school. Maybe I&#8217;ll go back someday.

	Click the picture of yours truly in the funny costume above to see a few more from my graduate commencement.

	P.S. To the dimwits who kept chanting &#8220;MBA, MBA!&#8221; near the end of the ceremony: Seriously guys, that was retarded.
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		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/02/11/i-am-going-to-miss-grad-school/</link>
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		<title>My MA graduation speech (that didn&#8217;t get selected)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	After I was done orating my speech, the lady on the two-person selection committee&#160; said she liked it but&#8230;
It doesn&#8217;t have any quotes. I like quotes. It just shouldn&#8217;t be all yours.&#8221;
It shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;all mine&#8220;? That&#8217;s a very intelligent way to put it, I would say.

	She said that if I revised it they would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2010/02/10/my-ma-graduation-speech-that-didnt-get-selected/</link>
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		<title>A sorry excuse of a blog post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This is one of those posts where I tell you, my real or imaginary reader, a few things about nothing in particular.

	

	So yesterday I loaded up my blog with the intent of writing something about that bike race I organized last December (and last February), or maybe a rant about a rather frustrating experience with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation, Creative Destruction and the problem with Environmentalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	(This is one of my many brain dumps, intended to connect the dots between things in my own mind. Today&#8217;s brain dump is on environmentalism, economics and ethics)

	It might be already obvious: The problem with most environmentalist movements is that the basic premise on which they are built, conservation, does not play nice with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/11/24/conservation-creative-destruction-and-the-problem-with-environmentalism/</link>
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		<title>Tonight, I burn my journal</title>
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	Yes. Tonight I will set fire to the little black notebook in which I have kept a semi-regular journal over the past five years of my life. I will incinerate half a decade&#8217;s worth of mundane, important or note-worthy personal happenings recorded the &#8220;old school&#8221; way. Ink, pen and paper.

	In the grand scheme of things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/10/27/tonight-i-burn-my-journal/</link>
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		<title>If you only read one book this year&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	...and provided that you can read and understand colloquial Egyptian Arabic (the Upper-Egyptian dialect, to be more specific), you really should read Gawabat Haragy El Kot (The Letters of Haragy EL Kot) by Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudy.

Take masterful story-telling, super-lucid usage of colloquial language, seldom-matched literary prowess and soak all of that way deep in the cultural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/10/15/if-you-only-read-one-book-this-year/</link>
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		<title>On the aesthetics of (way too expensive) two-wheeled machines</title>
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When it comes to two-wheeled transport (or fun), my preference usually leans towards the human-powered family of machines, preferably the type intended for off-road use. Something about the combination of simplicity, zero-carbon footprint (if you discount the manufacturing process, that is), and the invocation of sweet memories of the of endless summer days of carefree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/10/12/on-the-aesthetics-of-way-too-expensive-two-wheeled-machines/</link>
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		<title>Specialized is looking for a few good riders&#8230;</title>
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	(Edit: In case you&#8217;re wondering what this is about, it was an entry to Specializes 2010 Trail Crew contest.)

...and I just might be one of them.

	You see, a few days ago, an email with the subject &#8220;Specialized Trail Crew&#8221; arrived in my inbox. Usually I would either quickly skim periodical emails of such kind or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hanimorsi.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/09/17/specialized-is-looking-for-a-few-good-riders/</link>
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		<title>The problem with having a Kindle&#8230;</title>
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	...is that now I might have to scrap my plans to build one of those.

	At the time of this writing, I have 293 titles on my Kindle, most of which are public domain ebooks downloaded from Project Gutenberg, Amazon&#8217;s free kindle book offerings and Manybooks.net.

	My Kindle (and the very nice Brookstone Microbeam booklight you see [...]]]></description>
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