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		<title>Monticello</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My New Year&#8217;s resolution is to find out more about Thomas Jefferson. Tagged: Jefferson, Monticello, resolution<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=319&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving: An Adopted Holiday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where I come from Holiday means vacation. Going away somewhere for a break, no matter what the date. Here in America, holiday denotes a celebration or an occasion associated with a specific date and of all those “holidays,” Thanksgiving is my favorite. Today it’s the date where people eat like it’s Christmas, only instead of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=299&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mugged {Along the divide}</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hybridesign</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[black male]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I got mugged. Most upsetting was that it occurred right outside my front door. I got a new job recently and with it a new phone. I&#8217;ve never had a fancy phone like this before &#8211; and so while waiting for a cab I was checking email and texts and using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=287&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Immersed in Dublin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Labor Day Swim&#8230;floating through the City</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the perfect day in Chicago &#8211; sunny and clear. I wanted to mark the end of summer by continuing my practice of floating meditation. I rode the bus from Albany Park, where I had attended the party thrown by J. and M. to celebrate the 100th birthday of their house; transferring from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=254&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Street Surgery</title>
		<link>http://lifetecture.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/street-surgery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hybridesign</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accessible station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago neighborhoods]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CTA upgrade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L station renovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pottawattamie Indians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travelled up to the North-side of the city a while ago and came across an open wound in the street. The neighborhood around the Montrose Brown Line Station is a good blend of commercial storefronts surrounded by two and three-flats &#8211; typical Chicago residential buildings. There&#8217;s been a lot of change lately as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=242&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visualizing a Textual Inventory</title>
		<link>http://lifetecture.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/visualizing-a-textual-inventory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to see the results of the words on here again. I just went to Wordle and here is the visual of this blog thus far: 8-17-08<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=238&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Street Food</title>
		<link>http://lifetecture.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/street-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hybridesign</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing the sounds of a street festival drifting up to my apartment on the 11th floor &#8211; through the thermopane windows &#8211; for the past couple of nights; so yesterday evening Bo and I went down to see what was going on at street level. We found Mexico in Chicago, right on Allport [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=221&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wheels: are four really better than two?</title>
		<link>http://lifetecture.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/wheels-are-four-really-better-than-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hybridesign</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Ryan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking a lot about wheels lately. Yesterday I needed to go to Hyde Park and when I looked at the Public Transit directions on Google Maps, the estimated time to take two buses was 1.25 hours. I thought about taking the Pink Line to the Green Line, so at least I could go through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=210&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blues Sister</title>
		<link>http://lifetecture.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/blues-sister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hybridesign</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Tattoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Ackroyd]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Belushi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxwell Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[picnic in Grant Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yellow anorak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rolling, rolling, rolling; the theme from Rawhide keeps going through my head&#8230;maybe because I just watched the Blues Brothers in Grant Park. What an experience to see John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd as Jake and Ellwood Blues running around the same city we were sitting in. About halfway through there was an almighty storm and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lifetecture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3853568&amp;post=196&amp;subd=lifetecture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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