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		<title>Take 6 Video</title>
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/08/04/take-6-video/</link>
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		<title>Search engine optimization from the horse&#8217;s mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Matt Cutts has put together some videos on search engine optimization.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/08/01/search-engine-optimization-from-the-horses-mouth/</link>
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		<title>ID, please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why, yes.  Yes, I am 21.  Here&#8217;s my ID.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/08/01/id-please/</link>
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		<title>Animator vs. Animation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flash developers will really appreciate this Animator vs. Animation animation.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/06/05/animator-vs-animation/</link>
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		<title>Best car commercial ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adults getting paid to play Mousetrap.



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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/05/09/best-car-commercial-ever/</link>
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		<title>Law and Ethics for Bloggers - Legal &#038; Ethical Blogging Considerations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Law and Ethics for Bloggers - Legal &#038; Ethical Blogging Considerations
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/04/29/law-and-ethics-for-bloggers-legal-ethical-blogging-considerations/</link>
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		<title>Pachelbel Rocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube has a homemade video of some kid playing a guitar rock version of Canon in D.  Very, very good.
Dude, do it again so I can see your fingers.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/04/29/pachelbel-rocks/</link>
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		<title>Dollywood&#8217;s new attraction: Timber Tower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A podcast about Dollywood&#8217;s new Timber Tower ride.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/04/28/dollywoods-new-attraction-timber-tower/</link>
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		<title>The Best Homemade Lightsaber Duel Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay.  Geeky, but cool.
The Best Homemade Lightsaber Duel Ever.
Really.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/04/27/the-best-homemade-lightsaber-duel-ever/</link>
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		<title>DEA agent shoots himself in the foot, sues DEA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No kidding.  A DEA agent shoots himself in the foot during a gun safety demonstration, immediately after informing the crowd that he was the only one in the room professional enough to handle a gun, then sues the DEA when the video makes the rounds on the internet.
Hat tip to overlawyered.com.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/04/13/dea-agent-shoots-himself-in-the-foot-sues-dea/</link>
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		<title>Instapundit: What people in Hell have on their iPods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Instapundit:  WHAT PEOPLE IN HELL have on their iPods.
I laughed out loud.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/04/07/instapundit-what-people-in-hell-have-on-their-ipods/</link>
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		<title>Add another &#8220;heh&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tack on another &#8220;heh&#8221; to this one.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/04/04/add-another-heh/</link>
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		<title>Shoo-fly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fun little Flash movie &#8212; Shoo-fly.  &#8220;Little&#8221; only if you don&#8217;t know anything about Flash.  If you know anything about Flash, you know how much work went into the thing.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/03/31/shoo-fly/</link>
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		<title>TiVo&#8217;s General Counsel Matthew Zinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Law.com has an interesting feature on TiVo&#8217;s General Counsel Matthew Zinn.  According to Zinn, his greatest accomplishment is that TiVo has not yet &#8220;been sued out of existence.&#8221;  I know the feeling.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/03/29/tivos-general-counsel-matthew-zinn/</link>
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		<title>More on the benefits of cognitive leisure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wired.com has more on the value of cognitive leisure.
Capitalizing on the notion that some video games inadvertently make gamers smarter, Nintendo is planning the release of at least one game that does so intentionally.  Keep an eye out for Brain Age, to be released in about a month.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/03/28/more-on-the-benefits-of-cognitive-leisure/</link>
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		<title>What happens when an Asian student gets a B+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A home video from Erick Liang:  Crazy Asian Mother.  Funny stuff.


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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/03/23/what-happens-when-an-asian-student-gets-a-b/</link>
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		<title>Business Tennessee article on the Tennessee blogging community.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An excellent article from Business Tennessee magazine on the Tennessee blogging community, with a nice bio of the Blogfather.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/03/16/business-tennessee-article-on-the-tennessee-blogging-community/</link>
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		<title>Watch your whole life Flash before your eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Flash animation showing life is but a vapor.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/03/15/watch-your-whole-life-flash-before-your-eyes/</link>
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		<title>The Checkerboard Illusion: a study in perception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the checkerboard picture at Inn of the Last Home.  It&#8217;s an amazing optical illusion that serves as a lesson in perception.
Hat tip to TennVolChamp.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/03/04/the-checkerboard-illusion-a-study-in-perception/</link>
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		<title>Eugene&#8217;s virtual 40th birthday party.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An old friend of mine is having a surprise, virtual birthday party tomorrow.  Well, it&#8217;s today, I guess.  A cool idea, and props to his blog-savvy wife, Juli.
WARNING: CONTAINS SOME INSTANCES OF INCRIMINATING PHOTOS OF AUTHOR OF MILDLY POPULAR EAST TENNESSEE BLOG.
So, Happy 40th, Eugene!

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/02/28/eugenes-virtual-40th-birthday-party/</link>
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		<title>Cheney&#8217;s Got a Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hilarious.  Cheney&#8217;s Got a Gun.  And props to Spike O&#8217;Neil &#8212; whoever he is &#8212; for sounding just like Aerosmith&#8217;s Steven Tyler.
Just in case I need to explain this to anyone &#8212; this is based on Aerosmith&#8217;s Janie&#8217;s Got a Gun from back in the 90&#8217;s.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/02/24/cheneys-got-a-gun/</link>
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		<title>Autistic basketball player causes mayhem at game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The permalink on this thing keeps breaking.  It&#8217;s working right now, but if it breaks again, let me know.
This will be made into a movie.
Hat tip to Burnt Orange Nation.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/02/24/autistic-basketball-player-causes-mayhem-at-game/</link>
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		<title>Tax expert H&#038;R Block errs in calculating its own taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oops.   Imagine the meetings. 
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/02/24/tax-expert-hr-block-errs-in-calculating-its-own-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Sallie Mae celebrating huge win in Congress on student loans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sallie Mae is gloating  over a little-known provision in the recently-passed Budget Deficit Reduction Act prohibiting holders of student loans from refinancing those loans.
It&#8217;s just not right that you can refinance your mortgage, but you can&#8217;t refinance your student loan.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/02/23/sallie-mae-celebrating-huge-win-in-congress-on-student-loans/</link>
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		<title>Pics of this year&#8217;s snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few pictures of this year&#8217;s &#8220;snow storm&#8221;:







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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/02/12/pics-of-this-years-snow/</link>
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		<title>Rojo&#8217;s top stories of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rojo has a link-rich compilation of the past week&#8217;s most-read stories from around the internet.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/01/27/rojos-top-stories-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s future: dead, internet, media, or god?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business 2.0 Magazine has a fun article on the the future of Google.  They asked a bunch of scientists, visionaries, and the like for their opinions and boiled down the results into the following four scenarios:

Google is the Media.  Google takes over TV, phones, etc., and really catches fire when e-paper hits critical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/01/26/googles-future-dead-internet-media-or-god/</link>
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		<title>More fun with the flu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists searching for hard data on how a pandemic might spread are looking to Where&#8217;s George, an internet site that tracks the movement of currency.  EurekAlert! has the story:
Using a popular internet game that traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel in the United States, and developed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/01/26/more-fun-with-the-flu/</link>
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		<title>Saturday Night Live&#8217;s skit on Medicare Part D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live on Medicare Part D.
Get on the drug train!
Hat tip to Garlo Ward, P.C.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/01/25/saturday-night-lives-skit-on-medicare-part-d/</link>
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		<title>New Take 6 album Feels Good to be released March 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The awesome Take 6 is set to release its new album Feels Good on March 21, 2006.
Have a quick listen to the celebratory first single, Come On, and see if it doesn&#8217;t in fact make you feel good.  You can hear about 45 seconds of each of the first three songs on the album courtesy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/01/24/new-take-6-album-feels-good-to-be-released-march-21/</link>
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		<title>How to Pronounce Biblical Terms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how to pronounce all those crazy words in your Bible?  Well, wonder no more.  Not the prettiest site, but very helpful.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2006/01/10/how-to-pronounce-biblical-terms/</link>
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		<title>TIME.com&#8217;s Coolest Blogs of 2005</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time.com has posted its list of the 50 Coolest Blogs of 2005.  I haven&#8217;t checked all of them out yet myself &#8212; and probably won&#8217;t check out some of them &#8212; but some look, well, cool.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/12/10/timecoms-coolest-blogs-of-2005/</link>
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		<title>Bloggers on the Chronicles of Narnia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clive Davis has rounded up and commented on several different posts in anticipation of tomorrow&#8217;s release of The Chronicles of Narnia.  As you&#8217;d expect, opinions run the gamut.
My previous posts on the movie:

Chuck Colson on the Harry Potter Question
Will People See Jesus in Aslan?
Hollywood Gets a Clue
On Lions, Witches, Wardrobes, and Demoninational Differences

Freaktoe and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/12/08/bloggers-on-the-chronicles-of-narnia/</link>
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		<title>Awesome Christmas Light Display Set to Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Possibly the coolest Christmas light display of all time, by Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio.
I was as skeptical as you will surely be, but Snopes.com has confirmed that it is real, not a computer-assisted animation.
According to Snopes:
This display was the work of Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio, who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/12/01/awesome-christmas-light-display-set-to-music/</link>
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		<title>What to Get Your Blogger for Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So that certain someone in your life has become obsessed.  Several months ago, he (or she) started using a word you&#8217;d never heard before.  Blog this, blog that.  You ignored it, thinking it would go away, but now, it&#8217;s a full-on obsession, and as much as you&#8217;d like to, you can&#8217;t escape [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/12/01/what-to-get-your-blogger-for-christmas/</link>
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		<title>What to Get Your Techie for Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a work in progress.  It&#8217;s meant to be a Christmas list for certain categories of people, including bloggers, techies, Volunteer football fans, etc.  Right now, I&#8217;m just gathering links and information.  Organization will come later.
The Treo 650 is going to be a hot Christmas gift this year.

GPS systems would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/11/26/what-to-get-your-techie-for-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Testing New Domain Pointer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just registered for a new domain pointer &#8212; www.viewfromrockytop.com &#8212; and trying to figure out how it works.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/11/18/testing-new-domain-pointer/</link>
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		<title>Integrating Chitika eMiniMalls and Google Adsense Ads into Your Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acting on the advice of ProBlogger, I&#8217;ve spent a bit of time working ads into the blog.  Apparently, ads perform better if they are (1) positioned close to content; and (2) color-coded to match the theme of the blog.
Chitika eMiniMalls (affiliate link) seem to perform better for me, and I wasn&#8217;t very happy with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/11/05/integrating-chitika-eminimall-and-google-adsense-ads-into-your-blog/</link>
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		<title>ProBlogger&#8217;s Hot Posts of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ProBlogger&#8217;s hot posts of the week:

How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs
Adsense Dumb Pricing
Google PR Update Underway
Chitika eMiniMalls Tips: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

Lots of excellent information here.  I&#8217;ve signed up for Chitika eMiniMalls, and I plan to place the code this weekend.
Show Darren your appreciation by making ProBlogger a regular read.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/28/probloggers-hot-posts-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Charles Colson on the Harry Potter Question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Charles Colson:
Fifty years ago, Christians charged that Lewis was teaching kids witchcraft. Yet today, most Christians—myself included—consider the Chronicles of Narnia classics and the Narnia books and movies are in most church libraries.
So how are they different, if at all, from Harry Potter?  Colson distinguishes the series&#8217; on three grounds:

Narnia is clearly an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/27/charles-colson-on-the-harry-potter-question/</link>
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		<title>Will People See Jesus in Aslan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis&#8217; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe opens in theaters December 9, 2005.  Randy Alcorn, in the most recent Eternal Perspectives, asks Will People See Jesus in Aslan (roughly 2 meg pdf):
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Aslan tells the children that though they must return to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/27/will-people-see-jesus-in-aslan/</link>
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		<title>The Mathematical Genius of Volpundit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to math wiz Volpundit, who was the first to correctly identify the trick behind the Can This Website Read Your Mind post.
Volpundit&#8217;s explanation is in the comment section of the post, so follow the link to read it.  He (or she) added a second comment, on the same theme as my earlier Tennessee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/27/the-mathematical-genius-of-volpundit/</link>
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		<title>Can This Website Read Your Mind?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why, yes.  Yes it can.
Unless you stink at math.
First reader to figure out the trick wins . . . hmmm . . . a post dedicated solely to the singing of praises to your superior intellect.
Or I could just publicly poke fun at you, whichever I prefer in my sole discretion and depending on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/25/can-this-website-read-your-mind/</link>
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		<title>Converting First Time Visitors into Regular Readers: Day 5 of ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day Five of ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog has several suggestions on how to convert one-off visitors to your site into regular readers.
In reading through this post, I realized why I was having so much difficulty following the organization of ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days Project.  Basically, instead of following a pre-ordained 31-day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/22/268/</link>
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		<title>Long Term Care Risk Management Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long Term Care Risk Management Report is a new blog about, well, risk management issues in the long term care industry.
His first post concerns the recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicating that nursing homes rank below the pharmaceutical industry in public perception.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/18/risk-management-report/</link>
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		<title>The iTunes for Windows ver. 6.0 Installation Fix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Aah, there you are, my good friend.  So glad to see you.  (Sigh.)</em>  I'm hooked, and I blame Steve Jobs both for my habit and the four hours I lost wrestling with the worst engineered upgrade install in the history of software.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/17/the-itunes-for-windows-ver-60-installation-fix/</link>
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		<title>iTunes for Windows v. 5.0 Still Not Fixed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, almost an entire month after my September 19, 2005 Aahh, So That’s the Problem: iTunes for Windows v. 5 post, and they still haven&#8217;t rolled out an easy fix.
Apple has, however, released a newer version &#8212; iTunes v. 6.0 &#8212; but it doesn&#8217;t work either.  The frustration of windows users everywhere is almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/16/itunes-for-windows-v-50-still-not-fixed/</link>
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		<title>Social Bookmarking: Day Four of ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day Four of ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog concerns something called social bookmarking.  Wikipedia defines the phenomenon as &#8220;an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.&#8221;
ProBlogger says that the benefit of such sites [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/14/social-bookmarking-day-four-of-probloggers-31-days-to-building-a-better-blog-project/</link>
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		<title>The Shining: The Feel Good Movie of 1980</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever seen The Shining, I think you&#8217;ll find this hilarious.  It&#8217;s also very instructive on the question of perspective and selectivity.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/13/the-shining-the-feel-good-movie-of-1980/</link>
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		<title>Freaktoe Becoming a Volunteer Football Fan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so the Tennessee Vols lost to Georgia for the fifth time in six games, but Freaktoe and I had a good time at Neyland Stadium on Saturday.
Our comp tickets &#8212; thanks, Jimmie Miller, Esq., and Hunter, Smith &#038; Davis! &#8212; were high up in the lower section at the south end zone, Section K, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/09/freaktoe-becoming-a-volunteer-football-fan/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Television</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently published a piece on the potential impact of new video search sites on television.
One such site is BlinkxTV.com. I used it to try to find Chad Johnson&#8217;s Riverdance touchdown celebration that everyone&#8217;s talking about, but I couldn&#8217;t find it.  Couldn&#8217;t find it on Google, either, though.
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/07/the-future-of-television/</link>
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		<title>The Littlest Blogger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the ten-year-old behind a kids life Tennessee&#8217;s youngest blogger?
Via Tennessee Jed, the kids&#8217; step-father.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/04/the-littlest-blogger/</link>
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		<title>How to Blog About Your Job and Not Get Caught</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vol Abroad does the unthinkable and blogs about his job.  Follow the link for the incriminating details!
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/04/how-to-blog-about-your-job-and-not-get-caught/</link>
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		<title>Measuring Success: ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days to a Better Blog Days 1-3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it only took a month, but I&#8217;ve finally fully implemented what I learned from Days 1 through 3 of ProBlogger&#8217;s 31 Days to a Better Blog.
Here&#8217;s a follow up to what I learned from Day 2 and Day 3:
Day 2

I&#8217;m doing a bit better at posting more often, but time is still a factor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/10/01/follow-up-on-probloggers-31-days-to-better-blogging-days-1-3/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Slithering Reptile!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I registered with the truth laid bear&#8217;s blogosphere ecosystem just for fun.  Right out of the box, I was a lowly Insignificant Microbe, but after a few days I ascended to the status of Flippery Fish, bypassing completely the Slimy Molluscs, Lowly Insects, Crunchy Crustaceans, Wiggly Worms, and Multicellular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/29/im-a-slithering-reptile/</link>
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		<title>The Littlest Lineman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boy, this guy is good for only 7 inches high!
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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/29/the-littlest-lineman/</link>
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		<title>Whew!  Unpacking the Last Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just completed my move from joelhollingsworth.blogspot.com to joelhollingsworth.com.
The metaphorical last box to be unpacked was re-directing all internal links to the non-blogspot URL.  Just finished.  It&#8217;s late.  I&#8217;m going to bed.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/25/whew-unpacking-the-last-box/</link>
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		<title>Hollywood Gets a Clue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The powers that be in Hollywood are apparently beginning to recognize the value of producing family- and church-friendly films.  Check out the story.  It&#8217;s encouraging.
Upcoming movies that major studios are actively promoting directly to church groups include

The Greatest Game Ever Played
The Thing About My Folks
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Chronicles of Narnia: The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/23/hollywood-gets-a-clue/</link>
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		<title>Aahh, So That&#8217;s the Problem: iTunes for Windows v. 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been messing around with the computer for a couple of hours now, trying to get iTunes to work.  It simply won&#8217;t start up.  I figured Slappy, who is starting to spend some time on the computer alone, had messed something up.
Well, after several uninstalls, reinstalls, system restores, etc., I finally found this. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/19/aahh-so-thats-the-problem-itunes-for-windows-v-5/</link>
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		<title>Google Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to remind everybody that I have almost no control over the Google ads that show up on the site.  They&#8217;re context-based, meaning that the ads should have some relation to what I write.
Based on the fact that my current Goggle ads are for night life and condos in Los Angeles, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/15/google-ads/</link>
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		<title>Artificial Intelligence in the Legal System?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe has an interesting piece on the potential application of Artificial Intelligence to the legal profession.  Drake Bennett writes that:
[c]omputer judges, of course, aren&#8217;t going to be ascending to the bench in the foreseeable future. &#8216;&#8217;Nobody thinks that&#8217;s a good idea,&#8221; says Carole D. Hafner, a Northeastern University computer scientist and pioneer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/14/artificial-intelligence-in-the-legal-system/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Moved!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve migrated to joelhollingsworth.com!  Please update your bookmarks and/or blogrolls.  I&#8217;ll leave the blogspot posts active for a little while, but all new posts will be to the new site.  For some reason, the comments aren&#8217;t making the transfer.  Neither are some of the posts.
It will undoubtedly take some time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/10/ive-moved/</link>
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		<title>Comment Spam Requires Deactivitation of Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Comment spam out of control.  Started getting all sorts of stuff, so I&#8217;m turning them off.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/08/comment-spam-requires-deactivitation-of-comments/</link>
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		<title>Gnat Gets Her Shots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
James Lileks documents one more ordinary day of a loving father before the &#8220;bolt-cutter transitional day&#8221; of tomorrow.  An excerpt:
Wednesday is our last day before school. We’ll go to the gardens we visit every year at summer’s end, where I shoot the video of her in the same place, binding the years together. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/08/gnat-gets-her-shots/</link>
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		<title>Instapundit&#8217;s Katrina Commission, 18 Months Early</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Check out Instapundit&#8217;s excellent post on lessons learned from Katrina.  All of this on September 7, 2005, a little more than a week after the disaster.
A Katrina Commission will be appointed and will take 18 months or longer to come up with roughly the same list.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/08/instapundits-katrina-commission-18-months-early/</link>
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		<title>Geraldo Rescues Woman and Her Dog, Take Two [CRACK!]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Instapundit quotes a Salon story reporting that Geraldo Rivera played to the cameras by doing two takes of his rescue assistance of a New Orleans flood victim.
Nice.

UPDATE:  Apparently, Fox News says this story is not true.  Sorry, Geraldo.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/08/geraldo-rescues-woman-and-her-dog-take-two-crack/</link>
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		<title>Cold Fury on the Mocking of Tom Ridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Cold Fury has posted a screed on how lefty bloggers contributed to the post-Katrina havoc by ridiculing Tom Ridge when he suggested we all gather together a disaster preparedness kit.  The post catalogs the proof by linking to various blogs doing just that.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/08/cold-fury-on-the-mocking-of-tom-ridge/</link>
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		<title>Another (Not So) Subtle Difference Between Democrats, Republicans, and Southern Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
From A Mom and Her Blog (by the way, I recommend the &#8220;Sleepy Mom&#8221; look for her blog): A test to help you determine whether you are a Democrat, a Republican, or a Southern Republican.
The difference between the Republican and the Southern Republican is the funniest part.  I imagine the Southern Republican saying &#8220;Bless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/06/another-not-so-subtle-difference-between-democrats-republicans-and-southern-republicans/</link>
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		<title>Act Now!  Too Late.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
An example of how quickly the window of opportunity opens and closes.  Read the comment, as this is in fact still a very good deal on a TiVo, which is a great product, even if you can&#8217;t get paid $51 to buy one.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/05/act-now-too-late/</link>
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		<title>Kobayashi Maru: Re-Programming the Blogosphere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Just discovered Kobayashi Maru, thanks to Instapundit.  The name is derived from a Star Trek episode in which Captain Kirk beat a simulation, designed to be unwinnable to test the character of the participant, by re-programming the simulation.
The top four Kobayashi Maru posts at this time are all excellent, and rather than link to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/05/kobayashi-maru-re-programming-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<title>Kobayashi Maru On Katrina, Rudy, and Hillary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Kobayashi Maru suggests that Hillary Clinton is already moving to mitigate any potential political benefit that might accrue to Rudy Giuliani as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/05/kobayashi-maru-on-katrina-rudy-and-hillary/</link>
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		<title>Comment Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I know I&#8217;m attracting inordinate amounts of spam in my comments.  I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;ve done.  Something akin to dumping buckets of blood and gore over the rail into the ocean, I guess.
I&#8217;m working on it.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/04/comment-spam/</link>
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		<title>31 Days to a Better Blog: Day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what I think is Day 3 of Problogger&#8217;s 31 Days to a Better Blog series, Darren stresses the importance of including keywords in post titles.  My first thought upon reading this was that I know how to do that.  After all, as a lawyer, I spend a good portion of my time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/04/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-3/</link>
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		<title>Riding Sun on Higher Education</title>
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This is funny.  I think I went to the wrong law school.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/04/riding-sun-on-higher-education/</link>
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		<title>Riding Sun on Hillary Clinton</title>
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Riding Sun, aptly noting a certain hypocrisy, dresses down Hillary Clinton for remarks suggesting that a sinister plot by oil magnates is driving up oil prices.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/04/riding-sun-on-hillary-clinton/</link>
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		<title>Problogger&#8217;s 31 Days to Better Blogs: Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Well, I&#8217;ve spent some time at Problogger&#8217;s 31 Days to Better Blogs. I have to say that I found the organization of the content a bit confusing. I was hoping to walk through the posts day by day &#8212; Day 1, click here, Day 2, click here, and so on &#8212; but I could not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/03/probloggers-31-days-to-better-blogs-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Problogger&#8217;s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Just discovered Problogger.net, which, at first glance anyway, appears to have a wealth of information on how to improve your blog.
Sounds good to me.  I&#8217;ve added Problogger to my blogroll, and I plan to visit often, starting with its 31 days to building a Better Blog post.
Stay tuned.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/02/probloggers-31-days-to-building-a-better-blog/</link>
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		<title>Challenge to Send Gross Tithe to Samaritan&#8217;s Purse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Glenn Reynolds today compiled an extensive list of Katrina-aid charities from the suggestions of various bloggers and Instapundit readers.
I encourage Christians everywhere to dedicate a month&#8217;s worth (or more) of Gross Tithes to Samaritan&#8217;s Purse.
I&#8217;m defining the term &#8220;Gross Tithe&#8221; not as a tenth of your gross income, but as the difference between a tenth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/01/challenge-to-send-gross-tithe-to-samaritans-purse/</link>
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		<title>Wow: Video of Katrina</title>
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WLBT in Jackson, Mississippi, has amazing video of Katrina.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/01/wow-video-of-katrina/</link>
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		<title>News from Inside a New Orleans Hospital</title>
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Instapundit posts an email from Bill Quigley, who is on the ground in a hospital in New Orleans

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/09/01/news-from-inside-a-new-orleans-hospital/</link>
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		<title>Enlistment in the Rocky Top Brigade</title>
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Finally joined the Rocky Top Brigade tonight.  The RTB is essentially a loose association of Tennessee bloggers.  Big Orange Michael has the latest Volunteer Tailgate Party, a collection of recent posts by other Rocky Top Brigadiers.
Go Big Orange Michael!

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/08/31/enlistment-in-the-rocky-top-brigade/</link>
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		<title>Huh?  Reality-TV Writers</title>
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Okay, so this story focuses on a suit by &#8220;reality-TV writers&#8221; wanting overtime pay.  But the bigger question is, why are there writers for reality television?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Bueller?

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/08/31/huh-reality-tv-writers/</link>
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		<title>Blogger for Word and Font Size</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Okay, as you can see below, the Blogger for Word Add-In automatically reduced my font size.&#160;&#160;Not sure why just yet, but there is a setting that allows you to preview the html before you publish it.&#160;&#160;Mine shows a span tag reducing the font size to 85%.&#160;&#160;You can change it at that point, but that’s pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/08/28/blogger-for-word-and-font-size/</link>
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		<title>New Blogger Add-In for Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I’ve tried several different blogging word processors, and they’re all pretty clunky.&#160;&#160;Blogger recently released an add-in that allows you to post to your blog directly from Word.&#160;&#160;I like the idea, as I drafted most of my longer posts in Word and transferred them to the Blogger interface anyway, but if the new add-in streamlines the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/08/28/new-blogger-add-in-for-word/</link>
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		<title>Michael Yon : Gates of Fire</title>
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Michael Yon has excellent on-the-ground reporting directly from Mosul, Iraq.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/08/26/michael-yon-gates-of-fire/</link>
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		<title>Time Well Wasted is Exactly That</title>
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Brad Paisley&#8217;s new album (why do we still call them albums?) &#8212; Time Well Wasted &#8212; hit the stores (does anybody still buy music at the store) today.  I downloaded mine this morning before work and listed to and from, during lunch, and during my run tonight.  The verdict?  While he doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/08/17/time-well-wasted-is-exactly-that/</link>
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		<title>Who Am I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So who am I?

A Mere, Word and Power Christian
Inspired Husband, Father to Freaktoe and Slappy
Long Term Care Lawyer and Evader of Sharks
Former (and sometimes current) Musician
Sometimes Author
A Few of My Favorite Things

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/08/14/who-am-i/</link>
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		<title>Attack of the Protein Deficiency, Slappy&#8217;s Lament, and a Parent&#8217;s Wonderful, Awful Idea</title>
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Background:  We all went to Splash Country yesterday.  It was hot and sunny, and we all got completely worn out.
More background: Freaktoe needs protein first thing in the morning. Don’t know why, but when she doesn’t get it shortly after she wakes up, she’s a different kid.
Still more background: Freaktoe is now 9. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/31/attack-of-the-protein-deficiency-slappys-lament-and-a-parents-wonderful-awful-idea/</link>
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		<title>The Education of Freaktoe</title>
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Still been busy with the job and with the Hillbilly Holiday videos. On the videos, I believe I&#8217;ve ended up with five of them:


The View
The Family
The Fear
The Sounds
The Moves

The View is the only one that&#8217;s done, and I think it turned out pretty well. I&#8217;m going to see if I can post it for download [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/23/the-education-of-freaktoe/</link>
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		<title>A New Twist on an Old Joke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Jeff Foxworthy&#8217;s You Might be a Redneck If . . . 2005 Calendar for today, Tuesday, July 19:
You might be a redneck if . . . all your wedding guests were seated on the same side of the church.
And since SKBubba is no longer blogging, I&#8217;ll say it: Okay, then.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/19/a-new-twist-on-an-old-joke/</link>
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		<title>Slack Off and Save Money at the Same Time!</title>
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Yeah, I&#8217;m slacking. Been working on Hillbilly Holiday videos, and nothing else has really captured my attention enough to blog about it.
So there.
But here&#8217;s a tidbit. Never buy anything online without first checking for coupons or promo codes. Check out the following sites before checking out online:

Coupon Cabin
Coupon Craze
Current Codes
CoolSavings
KeyCode

Thanks to Kim Komando, who as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/19/slack-off-and-save-money-at-the-same-time/</link>
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		<title>1,000th Visitor Also First Hate Mailer?</title>
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It&#8217;s a two milestone day! First, I reached 1,000 visitors, and second, I received my first hate mail via comment to a post! Woo-hooo!
Okay, okay, the comment is pretty tame, but it&#8217;s still a waypost of some sort, is it not?
The comment was in response to this post expressing dismay over the selection of Oliver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/11/1000th-visitor-also-first-hate-mailer/</link>
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		<title>The Anchoress Listens &#8212; and Hears</title>
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The Anchoress, experiencing a Job-like descent into darkness, beautifully articulates the mature Christian&#8217;s response to debilitating burdens.
Anchoress, I do not know who you are, but I pray for you and I thank God for your example.  May your sons continue to imbue music into the ear of your heart.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/10/the-anchoress-listens-and-hears/</link>
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		<title>Another Excellent Screed from Lileks</title>
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A must-read/listen.  Small excerpt:
They did not bomb London because there is insufficient transparency in Congress about the Gitmo detainees; they bombed London because it is part of the Zionist-Crusader Conspiracy run by the sons of monkeys and pigs, who must submit or die.
Any questions?


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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/09/another-excellent-screed-from-lileks/</link>
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		<title>Historical Revisionist to Tackle 9-11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
There figures to be some serious pushback on the decision to have Oliver Stone direct the first big-budget 9-11 film.
Ugh.  I like Nicholas Cage, who will star, but Oliver Stone?  Come on.
Here&#8217;s the real story of the last two individuals to be rescued from the WTC, sans leftist conspiracy theory.  The story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/09/historical-revisionist-to-tackle-9-11/</link>
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		<title>Beaverdale Estates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
My 90-something Grandma is moving, leaving the only home I ever knew her to have in the quaint little town of Richland, Iowa, not far from where the ice cream cops hand out citations for good behavior, and setting out for an elder community in Des Moines.
Naturally, everyone&#8217;s a bit uneasy about the transition, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/08/beaverdale-estates/</link>
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		<title>On Lions, Witches, Wardrobes, and Demoninational Differences</title>
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Rain.
Rain.
Horrid headache.
Because of the rain.
Five inches of rain, remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy. Don&#8217;t know where she came from, just know she&#8217;s some unwelcome windbag visiting from somewhere south of here, making my head pound.
Go away.
And so it&#8217;s probably just a lazy evening of reading until it&#8217;s late enough that I can fall asleep secure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/07/on-lions-witches-wardrobes-and-demoninational-differences/</link>
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		<title>SSSS-sssssss-&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Ding!  Snake&#8217;s done!  Come and get it!

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/07/ssss-sssssss/</link>
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		<title>On Futons, Coffins, and Hissing Reptiles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
So now I&#8217;m fully refreshed and ready to re-enter the blogosphere.  Where to start?  Sort through the various draft posts, re-read, link, and comment?  De-brief on the Hillbilly Holiday?  More interesting patents?
Oh, but there&#8217;s a surprise appointment with a 400-pound futon to consider.  The thing&#8217;s packaged in a cardboard box [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/06/on-futons-coffins-and-hissing-reptiles/</link>
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		<title>Surfacing</title>
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Yawn.
I&#8217;m awake.
. . .
Okay, okay!  I&#8217;m up!

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/06/surfacing/</link>
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		<title>None More Blogless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Remember the 80-page &#8220;birthing of a pudgy legal document [that had] apparently rendered me unable to write short sentences&#8220;?  Well, the asset purchase contemplated therein came to fruition last Friday, and I spent the better part of two weeks gittin her done.  Quitting time last week was 10:00 p.m., 12:45 a.m., 12:15 a.m., [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/07/05/none-more-blogless/</link>
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		<title>Patent on a Stick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Just discovered IPWatchdog.com, which has been compiling a list of obscure patents for at least a couple of years.  My favorite is the animal toy.  Click the link &#8212; IPWatchdog&#8217;s commentary is hilarious.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/06/15/patent-on-a-stick/</link>
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		<title>On Minimizing the Freak in Freaktoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Well, it appears that Freaktoe&#8217;s uh, persistence, has finally worn down my poor wife, at least with respect to the extended version of The Fellowship of the Ring, which they brought home from the library a couple of days ago. So now I&#8217;m watching it to make sure nothing has crept into the extended and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/06/14/on-minimizing-the-freak-in-freaktoe/</link>
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		<title>Can I Live?  Thanks for Listenin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Discovered this Nick Cannon pro-life rap video while reading The Anchoress this morning. It&#8217;s worth your time.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/06/14/can-i-live-thanks-for-listenin/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005 &#8212; Schedule: Days 5 and 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This will be the last pre-Hillbilly Holiday, 2005 post. Tentative Schedule for Days 5 and 6. All times and events subject to change at the whim of any party involved.
It&#8217;s a vacation! Relax.
Day 5 &#8212; Biltmore Estate
Time to slow things down a bit. Check out of the Mountain Spirit fairly early and head over to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/06/02/hillbilly-holiday-2005-schedule-days-5-and-6/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005 &#8212; Schedule: Days 2 and 3</title>
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UPDATE:  The Mountain Spirit does have a washer and dryer.  And not just a ribbed contraption in the creek and a roll of duct tape to stick your soileds on the hood of your car while you drive real fast, either.
At least, I&#8217;m assuming they&#8217;re not.
Anyway, consider yourself updated.
This here&#8217;s more of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/06/01/hillbilly-holiday-2005-schedule-days-2-and-3/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005 &#8212; Schedule: Days 1 and 2</title>
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This here&#8217;s the Hillbilly Holiday, 2005 Tentative Schedule.  All times and events subject to change at the whim of any party involved.
It&#8217;s a vacation!  Relax.
Day 1 &#8212; Arrival
Get to the Mountain Spirit at Shagbark Resort in Pigeon Forge, TN sometime after 4:00.  Proceed to chill.  Maybe stock up on some vittles. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/31/hillbilly-holiday-2005-schedule-days-1-and-2/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005: Y&#8217;allbonics and Other Southern Sayings</title>
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Hey!  Hire yew?
Less than a week to Hillbilly Holiday, 2005.  You should continue marinating in the sweet sounds of the South in the Required Listening post and continue working your way through some of the movies and t.v. shows listed in the Required Viewing posts.  And in a few short days you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/30/hillbilly-holiday-2005-yallbonics-and-other-southern-sayings/</link>
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		<title>The Anchoress on the Death of Pop Culture</title>
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I&#8217;ve been meaning for some time to link to The Anchoress&#8217; The Death of Pop Culture post.  In yet another classic Anchoress rant, she observes with her typical flair the Red Audience&#8217;s increasing distaste for the Blue Media&#8217;s offerings.  Here&#8217;s just a taste:
People are weary of being lectured to by the media and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/27/the-anchoress-on-the-death-of-pop-culture/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005: Stuff You Absolutely Must Eat When Visiting East Tennessee</title>
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And now for Stuff You Absolutely Must Eat When Visiting East Tennessee, a continuation of Hillbilly Holiday, 2005.
First things first.  Before you even get in the car, grab a Mountain Dew.    According to the Mountain Dew history page, moonshine was, back in the days, sometimes euphemistically referred to as &#8220;mountain dew.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/22/hillbilly-holiday-2005-stuff-you-absolutely-must-eat-when-visiting-east-tennessee/</link>
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		<title>How Not to Impress the Ladies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This guy needs Hitch!.  Now!

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/14/how-not-to-impress-the-ladies/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005: Required Viewing, Part III</title>
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And now for the final installment of Required Viewing for Hillbilly Holiday, 2005 &#8212; About the South.
Part I, About Appalachia or Nearby Areas, is here. Part II, Connections to Appalachia or Nearby Areas is here. The Required Listening post is here.


About the South


A Family Thing
Amazon Info and Reviews
Screen It Content Info


Gone with the Wind
Amazon Info [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/12/hillbilly-holiday-2005-required-viewing-part-iii/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005: Required Viewing, Part II</title>
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A continuation of Hillbilly Holiday, 2005, Required Viewing, Part II of III.  This one is Connections to Appalachia or Nearby Areas. I posted Part I, About Appalachia or Nearby Areas a couple of days ago. The Required Listening post is here.
Note: Video Detective, the source of most of the trailers I linked to in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/12/hillbilly-holiday-2005-required-viewing-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>Yikes!  Why God Created Nose Hair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Discontinue use of clippers.  A nice, big clump of nose hair is the best defense against this.
Anyone else feel a sudden, compelling need for a Kleenex?

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/11/yikes-why-god-created-nose-hair/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005: Required Viewing, Part I</title>
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Four weeks and counting to Hillbilly Holiday, 2005. Following up on the Required Listening post, here is a list of Required Viewing. Just a little something to get you in the proper state of mind before traveling to the State of Tennessee.
In most cases, clicking on the name of a movie will bring up a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/10/hillbilly-holiday-2005-required-viewing-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Hell Hath Frozen Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Rush Limbaugh and the ACLU on the same side of an issue &#8212; his!

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/06/hell-hath-frozen-over/</link>
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		<title>Dave Barry on this Week&#8217;s 24</title>
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Dave Barry again reviews the latest episode of 24.  Best observation: the guy in charge of the world should not be splitting his time between averting disaster and selling insurance.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/05/dave-barry-on-this-weeks-24/</link>
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		<title>Lileks on the Age of Sultry Hussyism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Lileks on Bratz:
I froze. The Bratz are now Baby Mommaz. Yes, the hooker-in-training dolls have children. Bratz are the main reason I do not keep a supply of bricks around the house, because everytime the commercials come on I wish to pitch something kiln-fired through the screen so hard it beans the toy exec who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/05/04/lileks-on-the-age-of-sultry-hussyism/</link>
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		<title>Abbey Hedrick, Update III</title>
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Latest info on Abbey Hedrick is here.  She is doing quite well.  She&#8217;s moved to pediatric rehab in Atlanta, and you can follow her progress at carepages.com.  You&#8217;ll need to create a user name and password.  Abbey&#8217;s e-room is &#8220;AHedrick.&#8221;

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/25/abbey-hedrick-update-iii/</link>
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		<title>Hillbilly Holiday, 2005: Required Listening</title>
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Six weeks and counting to Hillbilly Holiday, 2005, and as promised, I have compiled a list of songs constituting Required Listening consistent with the theme.The following songs best represent, in my opinion, all that is good about East Tennessee, Tennessee, the South, and the &#8220;country.&#8221; Because Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia is the Birthplace of Country Music, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/24/hillbilly-holiday-2005-required-listening/</link>
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		<title>Coming Soon . . .</title>
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Working on a fairly long and complex (HTML-wise) post: Required Listening for Hillbilly Holiday, 2005.
So chill.
And have some &#8216;possum.  (Netnanny alert!  One instance of minor vulgarity!)

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/21/coming-soon/</link>
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		<title>Surgery, Informed Consent, and Time for Another Drummer</title>
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The one thing not on your informed consent form for surgery. I think this guy used to play drums for Spinal Tap.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/19/surgery-informed-consent-and-time-for-another-drummer/</link>
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		<title>God on Lawyers</title>
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A proverb  for yesterday, today, and forever.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/18/god-on-lawyers/</link>
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		<title>Yikes!  High School Reunion Looms</title>
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Twenty years.  2-0.  TWENTY YEARS!  Unbelieveable.
The dreaded &#8220;Dear Classmates of 1985&#8243; letter came today.  Twenty year high school reunion scheduled for September 24, 2005.  Twenty years.  I have more than doubled my age in high school.
The long dormant, long term memory area of my weary mind is stirring.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/14/yikes-high-school-reunion-looms/</link>
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		<title>The Wrong Trousers?</title>
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Leave it to the Japanese to develop bionic pants.
They call it a &#8220;hybrid assistive limb,&#8221; or HAL:
HAL is the result of 10 years&#8217; work by Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and integrates mechanics, electronics, bionics and robotics in a new field known as cybernics. The most fully developed prototype, HAL 3, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/12/the-wrong-trousers/</link>
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		<title>Dave Berry&#8217;s View of 24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Humorist Dave Berry live-blogged last night&#8217;s episode of 24.
As our CFO eruditely pointed out this afternoon, if you end up with that football, the best play is a quick kick on first down.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/12/dave-berrys-view-of-24/</link>
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		<title>New Blog for Long Term Care Lawyers</title>
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The Unknown Long Term Care Lawyer is a new blog by a, well, an unknown long term care lawyer.  He (or she) has been all over the AIG mess and the auctioning of Beverly Enterprises.
I&#8217;ll be a regular reader.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/08/new-blog-for-long-term-care-lawyers/</link>
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		<title>That Game Stinks!</title>
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Sony&#8217;s  just been granted an interesting new patent:
The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce &#8220;sensory experiences&#8221; such as smells, sounds and images.
Some games, however, I don&#8217;t think you want to smell.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/08/that-game-stinks/</link>
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		<title>Eyes, Specks, and Planks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is hilarious.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/08/eyes-specks-and-planks/</link>
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		<title>YOU ARE HERE</title>
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Goodbye Mapquest.  Goodbye randmcnally.com.
Hello, again, Google.  I&#8217;ve been a fan of Google&#8217;s maps and driving directions since I discovered the service a few months ago.  Typical Google, the maps are a blend of simplicity and style.  And unlike the other online map services, Google&#8217;s actually recognizes my home address, which was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/07/you-are-here/</link>
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		<title>Abbey Hedrick &#8212; Update II</title>
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Just heard that Abbey Hedrick started talking last night.  Apparently, some of her first words consisted of a disagreement with her mother.  I would wager that her mother was never so glad to hear her child sass her.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/07/abbey-hedrick-update-ii/</link>
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		<title>Abbey Hedrick: Update I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Abbey Hedrick is still progressing. She&#8217;s been moved out of the Pediatric ICU, and they&#8217;ve limited the pain meds, and removed the feeding tube through the nose and inserted one into her stomach. She&#8217;s apparently been pretty active, but as yet has not given any indication that she recognizes her family. Still, the professionals apparently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/04/abbey-hedrick-update-i/</link>
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		<title>Only in the South</title>
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Freaktoe&#8217;s teacher just called. Her school is canceling classes tomorrow. Why?
NASCAR.
The Sharpie Professional 250 was supposed to be run today, but was postponed due to heavy rain.  They&#8217;re running Monday morning instead.
And no, they&#8217;re not canceling school so the kids can take a field trip to the racetrack.  It&#8217;s all about the traffic. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/03/only-in-the-south/</link>
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		<title>The Sundry Perils of Bunk Bedding: Conclusion</title>
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The bunk bed project is complete:

For the pictures only, from start to finish, go here:
For the entire project in all of its heroic detail, go here.
I&#8217;ve survived.
What&#8217;s next?

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/02/the-sundry-perils-of-bunk-bedding-conclusion/</link>
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		<title>The Sundry Perils of Bunk Bedding: Pictures Only</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
















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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/02/the-sundry-perils-of-bunk-bedding-pictures-only/</link>
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		<title>Abbey Hedrick</title>
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Info on the status of Abbey Hedrick here.  Abbey is the granddaughter of Joan Purvis, a co-worker.  Joan&#8217;s daughter, son-in-law, and their three girls &#8212; Abbey is the middle-aged daughter &#8212; were in a serious car accident on Bristol Highway last Saturday afternoon.  Original article here.  (Registration required).
Abbey remains in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/04/01/abbey-hedrick/</link>
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		<title>Perplex City: Alternative Reality Gaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Now this sounds cool:
The first advertisement appeared in USA Today a week ago, right on schedule. 
People from around the world had stayed up all night waiting for it, talking in chat rooms and online forums. It had to be a clue, they thought. Everything before it had been a clue. 
&#8220;LOST. The Cube,&#8221; read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/25/perplex-city-alternative-reality-gaming/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;More Total Road-Squatting Mass&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Dave Berry is excited about the new Chevy Subdivision.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/22/more-total-road-squatting-mass/</link>
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		<title>The Sundry Perils of Bunk-Bedding:  Update II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having escaped death and serious bodily injury during the construction phase, and having avoided measurable brain damage (or having suffered such significant brain damage that I am blissfully unaware of it) during the priming phase, we now tackle Stage III: Painting.
Now you would think that painting is a relatively safe activity, but in actuality it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/19/the-sundry-perils-of-bunk-bedding-update-ii/</link>
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		<title>A Temporary Reprieve</title>
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Friday night.  We were able to get the 80-pager to a point where we don&#8217;t have to work frantically over the weekend to have it ready for signing Monday, and the out-of-towners we were expecting tomorrow morning are snowed in, and we&#8217;re mostly finished with the bunk beds and the rest of the girls&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/18/a-temporary-reprieve/</link>
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		<title>I, [need a] Robot</title>
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Help!  Still in a frenzy trying to do a deal, finish the kids&#8217; room, and get the kids to bed in under two hours.  Quick!  Teach one of these to paint!

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/17/i-need-a-robot/</link>
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		<title>Just Checking In</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Alright.  Settle.  I have not died from dust or primer-inhalation.  I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  I have not succumbed (man, that word looks strange) to rookie blogger burnout, where one enjoys a fiery blast off only to suffer an equally rapid flame-out.  No, between my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/15/just-checking-in/</link>
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		<title>A Southern Marinated Vacation, Part II</title>
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Update to the upcoming Southern Marinated Vacation.  (I don&#8217;t like the title, either.  Email me and suggest something better.)
Like I said earlier, we&#8217;ve got the cabin.  But what are we going to do?  How about hiking?  Well, maybe not:
GATLINBURG, Tenn. Mar 9, 2005 — Park rangers rescued four hikers Wednesday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/09/a-southern-marinated-vacation-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>Asian Bedroom Furniture</title>
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Hey, the Google AdSense ads have started appearing.  I apparently struck a nerve with the bunk bed industry.  If it&#8217;s still there, check out the ad that mentions Asian Bedroom Furniture.  I like the platform beds, but I&#8217;m not sure I could stand up from a squatting position first thing in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/09/asian-bedroom-furniture/</link>
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		<title>Huddle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
A few administrative issues.  First, I&#8217;ve disabled the comments.  I&#8217;m no longer interested in what you have to say.
Kidding.  Use the email address at the right to contact me.  It&#8217;s one of those invitation only Google email addresses.  Don&#8217;t I feel special!  So if you want to be notified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/08/huddle/</link>
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		<title>A Southern Marinated Vacation, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
My parents and my sister and brother-in-law (and their four youngins) are venturing south of the Mason Dixon line for a family vacation the week of June 6, 2005.  The Mountain Spirit (iPix 360 degree pics here) will serve as the home base for the 2005 Southern Marinated Vacation.  I&#8217;m fixin to cook [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/06/a-southern-marinated-vacation-part-i/</link>
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		<title>The Sundry Perils of Bunk Bedding: Update I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I have survived the assembly of the bunk beds.  New additions are the shelves and the two corbels (and the semi-made bed):

We devoted today to priming &#8212; a relatively hazardless activity, except as it relates to our carpet and my brain cells.  Just finished, and I&#8217;m feeling quite loopy.

The special order foam mattress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/06/the-sundry-perils-of-bunk-bedding-update-i/</link>
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		<title>Perplex City: Alternative Reality Gaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Now this sounds cool:
The first advertisement appeared in USA Today a week ago, right on schedule. 
People from around the world had stayed up all night waiting for it, talking in chat rooms and online forums. It had to be a clue, they thought. Everything before it had been a clue. 
&#8220;LOST. The Cube,&#8221; read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/03/01/perplex-city-alternative-reality-gaming-2/</link>
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		<title>The Sundry Perils of Bunk-Bedding</title>
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So Slappy is outgrowing her crib.  Ready to move to a big-girl&#8217;s bed.  But the girls&#8217; room isn&#8217;t that big, and the other &#8220;bedroom&#8221; is being used as an office.  So we think, aha!, bunk beds!
Angela starts poking around on the web and ends up at playhousedesigns.com, which is a pretty cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/28/the-sundry-perils-of-bunk-bedding/</link>
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		<title>More Pics from the Hotel Del</title>
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The last session of the American Health Lawyers Long Term Care and the Law Conference got out at 3:40 today, so I finally had some time, and a little bit of sunlight, to take some pictures.  This really is a gorgeous place.
This is one of the halls leading to the main lobby.  As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/25/more-pics-from-the-hotel-del/</link>
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		<title>Ridiculing Pastors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Long-time friend Gene Reynolds emailed earlier regarding the posting of comments:
How do I post a comment if I don’t have a blog? Is there some kind of impenetrable blog world?
Of course I told him that the blogosphere didn&#8217;t want his kind.  I mean, he&#8217;s a pastor, and me, as a former timeshare salesman and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/25/ridiculing-pastors/</link>
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		<title>The Coming Reorganization of Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This meme is getting more and more attention.  I&#8217;ve been meaning to post on it for some time now, but haven&#8217;t had the time to get my thoughts together on it.  So intead of waiting any longer, I thought I&#8217;d just go ahead and link to it.  Basically, it&#8217;s a really interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/25/the-coming-reorganization-of-politics/</link>
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		<title>Pictures of the Hotel Del</title>
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Below are some pics I took yesterday when I returned from the American Health Lawyers Association Long Term Care and the Law conference.
This is where I&#8217;m staying.  Cabana Building, Room 4329.


The view to the East:

To the North:

And, a bit later, to the Northwest:

As you can see, the sun came out in the afternoon.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/24/pictures-of-the-hotel-del/</link>
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		<title>Thanks for the Traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Just returned from the AHLA Long Term Care and the Law conference.  Thanks to Shawn Driscoll and his monkey arms for telling Shawn Anderson, devoted father of adorable twins, about this blog.  And thanks to Anderson for his online promotion of the link to The Perfect Circle of Spotlessness.  Oh, and to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/23/thanks-for-the-traffic/</link>
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		<title>Best Read of the Day &#8212; Oops! and The Sixth Sense</title>
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Science Blog has an interesting article on what some refer to as the Oops! region of the brain.
Following the Asian tsunami, scientists struggled to explain reports that primitive aboriginal tribesmen had somehow sensed the impending danger in time to join wild animals in a life-saving flight to higher ground. A new theory suggests that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/22/best-read-of-the-day-oops-and-the-sixth-sense/</link>
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		<title>Picture links keep breaking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know.  I know.  My picture links keep breaking.  I&#8217;ll get it fixed, but it&#8217;s going to have to wait until I have some time to figure out why my URLs have turned into moving targets.
Back later.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/21/picture-links-keep-breaking/</link>
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		<title>Slappy&#8217;s Third Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slappy turned 3 on Tuesday, but we had her party today. Princess theme. Taking care not to stress out about something that&#8217;s supposed to be fun, Angela and I made the cake, which I think Slappy liked. Mostly, though, she just wanted to stick her fingers in it. It turned out pretty well, I think. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/19/slappys-third-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Best Read of the Day &#8212; Putting the Fun Back in Funeral!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative urns! Some crazy artists are exhibiting their own creations for their own cremations.
Take, for example, the Ego Machine, David Sullivan&#8217;s pre-post-mortem opus:
Sullivan said he wanted to create an urn that was visually interesting, allowed some user interactivity and referenced the physical body. He decided that his remains will be integrated into a computer processor. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/18/best-read-of-the-day-putting-the-fun-back-in-funeral/</link>
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		<title>Best Read of the Day &#8212; The Bleat and the Perfectionist Mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Lileks is a columnist for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, but don&#8217;t hold that against him. His blog &#8212; The Bleat &#8212; is excellent, and I don&#8217;t read it often enough. Lileks is a stay-at-home dad, and he often writes about his daughter (I think she&#8217;s pre-school age), whom he refers to as Gnat.
Today, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/02/18/best-read-of-the-day-the-bleat-and-the-perfectionist-mother/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect Circle of Spotlessness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Tennessee is once again on the cutting edge of the new and improved flu season. But at least we&#8217;ve learned some interesting and fun new terms for vomit. Check out the link. It&#8217;s fun! It&#8217;s interesting!  It&#8217;s fun and interesting!  I especially like &#8220;holler New York.&#8221;
Bedtime is much better at the Hollingsworth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2005/01/27/the-perfect-circle-of-spotlessness/</link>
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		<title>Mediating: Slappy v. Freaktoe and Veggie Tales v. Psalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here it is, more than a month after my test post, and I haven&#8217;t done squat. It&#8217;s almost 9:00, and I&#8217;m still multitasking. Eight-year-old Freaktoe is reading in bed, and she, like the rest of us, are trying to ignore two-year-old Slappy crying and going through her repertoire of tactics she uses to try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/12/15/mediating-slappy-v-freaktoe-and-veggie-tales-v-psalty/</link>
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		<title>This is only a test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey.  Experiencing a weird combination of too busy and bored, I hit that orange B on my Google toolbar.  What the heck.  Ended up here.  So there.
And this is only a test.

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		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/15/this-is-only-a-test/</link>
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		<title>A Few of My Favorite Things</title>
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Favorite Team: University of Tennessee Volunteers. Go Big Orange!
Favorite Book: Thr3e, by Ted Dekker
Favorite Musical Style: Anything that&#8217;s built around a great song, but if I had to choose, it would probably be a tie between contemporary black gospel (songs with a lot of choir participation), country, and rock.
Favorite Musical Groups: Brad Paisley (and not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/01/a-few-of-my-favorite-things/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes Author</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The creative tendencies I formerly applied to music I now mostly apply toward writing. Besides this blog and my Tennessee Volunteer sports blog, View from Rocky Top, I&#8217;ve written a Christian-themed legal mystery/thriller entitled Reasonable Doubt. Email me if you&#8217;d like a copy in manuscript form. As I write this, you can still find the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/01/sometimes-author/</link>
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		<title>Songs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below are some of my old songs. Disclaimers:  First, these songs were written/performed from the mid-eighties through the early nineties, during the era of rock anthems and power ballads by bands with big hair, so keep that in mind as you listen.  (I tried the big hair thing.  The problem was that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/01/songs/</link>
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		<title>Who Am I?  Former Musician (and, Sometimes, Music Hobbyist)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As stated in another &#8220;Who am I?&#8221; post, I wanted to be a rock star when I was a kid. I spent most of my time at Rockridge High School in Taylor Ridge, Illinois, singing tenor in the choir, playing trumpet (and sometimes bass) in the band, and sometimes acting in school dramas and musicals. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/01/who-am-i-former-musician-and-sometimes-music-hobbyist/</link>
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		<title>Who Am I? Long Term Care Lawyer and Evader of Sharks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a kid, I wanted to be a rock star, and so it&#8217;s only natural that I ended up being General Counsel with a health care company that owns, operates, and provides management consulting and other services to nursing homes. As you can imagine, those two industries have much in common. As my friend David [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/01/who-am-i-long-term-care-lawyer-and-evader-of-sharks/</link>
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		<title>Who Am I? Inspired Husband, Father to Freaktoe and Slappy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angela and I were married in 1994. I&#8217;ve taken down her picture, but trust me, she&#8217;s gorgeous. She&#8217;s a full-time mom, and her only fault is that she merely tolerates, but does not love, UT football.
Angela inspires me to be all that I can be, and I love her with everything I am.
Freaktoe arrived in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/01/who-am-i-inspired-husband-father-to-freaktoe-and-slappy/</link>
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		<title>Who Am I?  A Mere, Word and Power Christian.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First and foremost, I&#8217;m a Christian. More of a Mere Christianity Christian than anything else. Dogmatic on the fundamentals, but sort of laissez-faire on the minutiae that tend to erect denominational walls.
When we lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, we were members of Two Rivers Church, which was a church plant out of Fellowship Church, also in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/11/01/who-am-i-a-mere-word-and-power-christian/</link>
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		<title>You Didn&#8217;t Read the Address, Did You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And they say us Southerners ain&#8217;t sophisticated.
But seriously, if you have a complaint, please send a certified letter, return receipt requested, to:
USPS Dead Letter Office #ANew York City, Montana  918273645-46372819Attn: Agent for Joel S. Hollingsworth
Please include a $79 processing fee, and, if paid by check, write &#8220;This is a free gift; I want nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.viewfromeasttennessee.com/2004/10/01/you-didnt-read-the-address-did-you/</link>
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