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		<title>Getting my hands dirty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m supposed to golf tonight. It&#8217;s been two weeks since I golfed. Last week I was on an airplane coming back from Hoboken, New Jersey. And I&#8217;m supposed to be on vacation today but there are two meetings that won&#8217;t be rescheduled. My desk is still a littered mess. Not with articles and textbooks, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Degree requirements completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just cleared off my desk. There were stacks of books, papers, and piles of scribbled notes. A couple hours ago I had problem sets and discussion notes and previous exams spread out as a supportive cast for the statistics take home final I was working on and which is now finished. And I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s late and nearly over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I drove back into town tonight to meet with some classmates to work on a presentation that we&#8217;re giving on Thursday. At the moment I&#8217;m listening to some Robert Cray. I should be working on something but I&#8217;m not. But in reality, I don&#8217;t have a ton left to do. The presentation is coming along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four More Weeks, Lost in Laptops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My statistics professor1 loves statistics, there is no doubt, but student participation during lecture isn&#8217;t great.2 There are about 35 students (when everyone shows up) and only 5 or 10 of us say anything all semester. You know who you are. Every student has a laptop and seems to pay more attention to it than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Hard Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You know there&#8217;s something that you need to know, it&#8217;s gonna be alright.&#8221;1. A glance at the clock. It&#8217;s 11pm. I usually try call it a night by 11pm. The last couple nights I&#8217;ve seen 12:30pm before I made myself stop looking at the clock. Just had to get some stuff done. Sometimes I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caught in the flow with rapids ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this is supposed to be spring-break for us graduate students. For me it&#8217;s a week where I&#8217;m able to concentrate on work projects without too much of an academic shadow. And I have, leveraging skills learned over the last couple years. But right now, even though I could be working on a white paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engagement Platforms Require Interaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 18th I cleaned up my work bench area in the basement and put up this canvas and set out these tubes of oil paint. That was nearly a month ago to this day. And there they sit. Since then, there has been no engagement. It&#8217;s a matter of priority I tell myself. School, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Approaching User Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we reach the 1/3 point of this semester, there isn&#8217;t much let up. It&#8217;s going to be a lot more exercise problems, reading, group meetings, and paper writing. In between school and the whirling dance of complex interactions that is software development, I find myself making connections to things I&#8217;ve studied during the the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Creation and Dependent Arising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, 3 weeks into winter semester. I&#8217;m driving into Ann Arbor more than I have in a couple years. At least 3 times a week, at most maybe 5. Feels like I have a part-time job on campus. The two classes promise to educate and awaken my brain. In one class I&#8217;m learning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.interspike.com/considerations/co-creation-and-dependent-arising/</link>
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		<title>The January Cold and Lonely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s pushing ten o&#8217;clock on a Monday night near mid-January. I&#8217;ve been studying how to use the program &#8220;R&#8221; for the last hour and a half. Today was cold and miscellaneous. Lots of things working to get traction, most things slipping and gripping for purchase. As I wind down my studying, I can&#8217;t help but [...]]]></description>
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