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	<title>I Believe Two Things &#187; Quips</title>
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		<title>What Have I Done!</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2012/02/what-have-i-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hotel had a lot going on yesterday. The morning began with breakfast: In the evening the restaurant opened for dinner. Don&#8217;t forget room service can bring meals while one lounges in bed in pajamas if the trip downstairs is just too much work. Finally, when you&#8217;re finished with all the food, visit the board [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My hotel had a lot going on yesterday. The morning began with breakfast:</p>
<div id="attachment_2390" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/holiday-inn-schedule-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2390" title="Today's Schedule (1)" src="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/holiday-inn-schedule-1.jpg" alt="Today's Schedule (1)" width="400" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Today&#39;s Schedule (1)</p></div>
<p>In the evening the restaurant opened for dinner. Don&#8217;t forget room service can bring meals while one lounges in bed in pajamas if the trip downstairs is just too much work.</p>
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<p>Finally, when you&#8217;re finished with all the food, visit the board room for a relevant meeting.</p>
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<p>I wonder if they&#8217;re trying to send a message.</p>
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		<title>Boy Scouts in the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best&#8230; related topics&#8230; ever: &#160;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Best&#8230; related topics&#8230; ever:</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Power Your Own Hubble</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2012/01/power-your-own-hubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have an extra $75,000 saved up and you&#8217;re looking for a good Valentine&#8217;s Day present, you could buy the &#8220;Vehicle Power Interface&#8221; for the Hubble Space Telescope on eBay! According to the auction&#8217;s description, the console weighs 2,750 pounds and was used to provide power to the telescope and test its on-board power systems [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_2366" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 277px"><a href="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hubble-power-interface.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2366" title="Vehicle Power Interface with the Doors Open" src="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hubble-power-interface.jpg" alt="Vehicle Power Interface with the Doors Open" width="267" height="400" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Vehicle Power Interface with the Doors Open</p></div>
<p>If you have an extra $75,000 saved up and you&#8217;re looking for a good Valentine&#8217;s Day present, you could buy the <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/NASA-Vehicle-Power-Interface-Hubble-Space-Telescope-/260828790749">&#8220;Vehicle Power Interface&#8221; for the Hubble Space Telescope</a> on eBay!</p>
<p>According to the auction&#8217;s description, the console weighs 2,750 pounds and was used to provide power to the telescope and test its on-board power systems while the telescope was still on the ground. An accompanying log book includes details of the equipment&#8217;s usage.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the eBay seller has no obvious affiliation with NASA and has only four reviews (all positive), so I&#8217;ll probably save my $75,000 for other completely impractical pieces of NASA equipment that may become available in the future. Ideally I&#8217;d like to hold out for a Canadarm.</p>
<p>(via <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/01/27/hubble-space-telescope-power-i.html/">Boing Boing</a>)</p>
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		<title>I Do What I Want</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2012/01/i-do-what-i-want/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly the zoo&#8217;s tiger fencing is working perfectly.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clearly the zoo&#8217;s tiger fencing is working perfectly.</p>
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		<title>Girls vs. Boys</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2010/10/girls-vs-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholastic book fair catalogs are always great for a laugh. (No, really.) In the Fall 2010 catalog, these two books appear side-by-side: The Girls&#8217; Book of Friendship: How to Be the Best Friend Ever Learn How To: ✔ Stay Friends for Life ✔ Help a Friend ✔ And More! and The Boys&#8217; Book of Adventure: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scholastic book fair catalogs are always great for a laugh. (No, really.) In the Fall 2010 catalog, these two books appear side-by-side:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The Girls&#8217; Book of Friendship: How to Be the Best Friend Ever</strong></p>
<p>Learn How To:</p>
<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} -->✔ Stay Friends for Life<br />
✔ Help a Friend<br />
✔ And More!</p></blockquote>
<p>and</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The Boys&#8217; Book of Adventure: Are You Ready to Face the Challenge?</strong></p>
<p>Learn How To:</p>
<p>✔ Dive for Treasure<br />
✔ Slay a Werewolf<br />
✔ And More!</p></blockquote>
<p>Don&#8217;t tell <em>me</em> there&#8217;s gender equality in kindergarten.</p>
<p>And my favorite part? The pair sits below the heading &#8220;New York Times Best-Selling Series!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Acne-B-Gone!</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2010/10/acne-b-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just ordered Sophie&#8217;s school pictures online. Using sample pictures with models (letting you choose which model looks most like your child), the Lifetouch website does its best to offer up-sells — added bonuses for an extra charge. Do we want an extra thousand wallet prints, or a selection of multiple poses so we can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We just ordered Sophie&#8217;s school pictures online. Using sample pictures with models (letting you choose which model looks most like your child), the Lifetouch website does its best to offer up-sells — added bonuses for an extra charge. Do we want an extra thousand wallet prints, or a selection of multiple poses so we can choose our favorite?</p>
<p>The best option is this, offering to retouch the picture to remove acne:</p>
<div id="attachment_1785" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 483px"><a href="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Screen-shot-2010-09-17-at-Sep-17-–-20.16.12-PM.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-1785 " title="Retouching?" src="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Screen-shot-2010-09-17-at-Sep-17-–-20.16.12-PM.png" alt="Retouching?" width="473" height="227" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Retouching?</p></div>
<p>Even better than the existence of this service is the brilliant marketing: the default choice is &#8220;Basic Retouching&#8221; showing the handsome young man you surely want printed in your son&#8217;s yearbook. Or, if you&#8217;re a cheapskate, you can choose to see his face dotted with acne.</p>
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		<title>Super Zombie Strippers</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2010/09/super-zombie-strippers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an actual blurb Comcast offers describing one of the movies available to watch free in the On Demand listings: Bloody mayhem in the Champagne Room. In the near future, a secret government reanimation virus is released, and lands in a strip club. The virus spreads, creating Super Zombie Strippers. TV Premiere Jenna Jameson, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an actual blurb Comcast offers describing one of the movies available to watch free in the <em>On Demand</em> listings:</p>
<blockquote><p>Bloody mayhem in the Champagne Room. In the near future, a secret government reanimation virus is released, and lands in a strip club. The virus spreads, creating Super Zombie Strippers. TV Premiere</p>
<p>Jenna Jameson, Robert Englund</p></blockquote>
<p>I can&#8217;t tell if that&#8217;s horrifying or awesome.</p>
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		<title>Extensive Stripper Research</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2010/05/extensive-stripper-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 04:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started getting caught up on season 5 of Doctor Who, and (of course) reading about it on Wikipedia at the same time. Since The Doctor&#8217;s new companion works as a &#8220;kiss-o-gram&#8221; at the beginning of the first episode, one thing naturally lead to another, and I landed on the Strip-o-gram article. This type of entertainment [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve started getting caught up on season 5 of <em>Doctor Who</em>, and (of course) reading about it on Wikipedia at the same time. Since The Doctor&#8217;s new companion works as a &#8220;kiss-o-gram&#8221; at the beginning of the first episode, one thing naturally lead to another, and I landed on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strippogram">Strip-o-gram</a> article.</p>
<blockquote><p>This type of entertainment became popular in the 1970s&#8230;. Exact dates are difficult to ascertain however, as there does not appear to have been any major research carried out on the subject.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wait, <em>should</em> there have been major research on the subject? Should there have been <em>any</em> research on the subject?</p>
<p>(And in case you were wondering, my fianceé did indeed see this post when all I&#8217;d written was &#8220;Extensive Stripper Research,&#8221; and now I&#8217;m in trouble.)</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Sat Down and I Can&#8217;t Get Up</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2010/04/ive-sat-down-and-i-cant-get-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First I find crazy backyard offices and now it&#8217;s crazy office chairs: The idea of curling up in there with a laptop makes me nervous about the entire idea of working from home. (This came up in a search for &#8220;co-working&#8221; facilities, which I&#8217;m bound to discuss at length at some point.  These chairs live [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First I find <a href="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2010/04/nanu-nanu-the-backyard-office/">crazy backyard offices</a> and now it&#8217;s crazy office chairs:</p>
<div id="attachment_1602" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pod-chair.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1602" title="Human Hamster Wheel?" src="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pod-chair-300x225.jpg" alt="Human Hamster Wheel?" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Human Hamster Wheel?</p></div>
<p>The idea of curling up in there with a laptop makes me nervous about the entire idea of working from home.</p>
<p>(This came up in a search for &#8220;co-working&#8221; facilities, which I&#8217;m bound to discuss at length at some point.  These chairs live at a place called <a href="http://coherecommunity.com/">Cohere</a>.)</p>
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		<title>Raise the Roof</title>
		<link>http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2010/04/raise-the-roof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These graphics depict the international standard signaling techniques used to communicate with helicopter pilots on or near a helipad.  These particular signals tell the pilot to lift off or move downward, respectively. They&#8217;re also fantastic dance moves as exhibited by one of the lesser known Village People:  the Aircraft Marshaller.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/takeoff-signal.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-1574 alignleft" title="Takeoff Signal" src="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/takeoff-signal.png" alt="Takeoff Signal" width="101" height="120" /></a><a href="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/helicopter-move-downward.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-1577 alignleft" style="margin-right: 10px;" title="Move Downward" src="http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/helicopter-move-downward.png" alt="Move Downward" width="120" height="120" /></a>These graphics depict the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_marshalling">international standard signaling techniques</a> used to communicate with helicopter pilots on or near a helipad.  These particular signals tell the pilot to lift off or move downward, respectively.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re also fantastic dance moves as exhibited by one of the lesser known Village People:  the Aircraft Marshaller.</p>
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