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		<title>One Shy of a Six-pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, when I got home from my brother&#8217;s house, I decided to eat a snack in the back yard where it was cooler than in the house. I was treated to one, no, make that five of those things that remind you how big a place the world is. 
I had left the windows mostly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/369</link>
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		<title>The Experiment Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this entry will require reader feedback. I made a video tour of my garden; unscripted and unplanned. I just went through and discussed what I have. It&#8217;s rough to say the least.
Leave some comments on wether I should do more like this on the garden or not.
Well, here goes:

Gardener&#8217;s Update for June 16, 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/video/361</link>
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		<title>Almost There</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. Software problems and all that. I wrote a very nice blog entry earlier this evening but I lost it trying to make some software work for me. More on that in a second. 
So, the summer is almost here. The nights are getting warmer and it won&#8217;t be long before the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/356</link>
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		<title>Coming Attraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting to think about doing things via video in the future on my blog. Or, to use more video at the very least. With that in mind, here is the trailer to the movie I made in 2001 with my friends as a taste of whats to come…

F.R.A.-8711 Trailer from Karl Tsakos on Vimeo.
Trailer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/video/350</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very happy New Year to all.
I started my year reviving a tradition I forgot to do last year. I don&#8217;t remember why, I think it&#8217;s because the weather was crappy or something. Anyhow, the tradition is to go for a New Year&#8217;s Day hike. Normally I would select some place lofty, most likely in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/334</link>
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		<title>By the Roadside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common locations for me to drive is the on ramp to route 287. I go that way during my commute to work every week day. Some evenings and every weekend I go to Rockland county, also getting on 287 at that entrance.
For the past week, there has been a pair of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/332</link>
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		<title>Blog? What blog?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re saying I have a blog?
No, this doesn&#8217;t sound familiar. Please continue.
Okay, let me get this straight, I have this thing &#8220;on line&#8221; where I write down whatever comes to mind and then people read it. Doesn&#8217;t sound very realistic.
Okay, if you say they do.
What about gardening?
Oh, yes, I did have a lot to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/330</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: The Battle of the Blight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As any gardener knows, this year the tomato blight is out of control. As my Mother has told me, all tomato plants get blight, so be prepared. Unfortunately, this year is one of the worst for it. The weather has been cool and rainy for most of the summer, the dreaded blight’s favorite conditions.
New Jersey, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/328</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: August 2, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I’m sitting in the back yard with a warm July breeze blowing and a nice cold Gin and Tonic. In the Kitchen the beets and carrots from my garden are roasting in the oven with rosemary, garlic, oil, and vinegar. The pasta water is heating and I’ll check it soon. This is going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/318</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: July 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since my last update. A lot has been going on outside of the garden that has distracted me from my reports. Things have slowed down now and I’m taking the time to enjoy having a yard. The sun has just gone down but the sky is still light. The birds are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/303</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: June 13, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a rainy week. Some plants are going to flower, other are stupid annoying plants who refuse to grow beyond their cotyledon state.
I picked a not so great week to be on vacation. It’s rained almost every day and has been overcast ninety percent of the time. Temperatures have been lurking in the sixties. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/290</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update: Jun 2, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So much has happened. And yet, some things that should have happened didn’t happen.
First, I’ve been eating my lettuces and mustard greens. Both farm fresh and delicious. The radishes are all gone. They were eaten on french bread with butter or in a salad. They had very mild flavors for radishes and were fairly small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/276</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update, May 18, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s old is new again. Especially if it’s poison ivy. Despite having been poisoned and then most of it’s roots ripped from the ground my poison ivy has started to grow again. Only a couple of small spots, but it’s still here. I will proceed with some surgical strikes (unlike the carpet bombing of last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/260</link>
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		<title>Rock On, Part 2: The Later Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Continued from &#8220;Rock On, Part1: The Early Years.&#8221;)
After things had settled down, my friends from college, post college friends, and siblings would get together every Tuesday for ten cent wing night at a local bar. Sometimes we would get together afterwards and have acoustic folk jams at my brother’s and my apartment. Tom was still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/music/251</link>
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		<title>Excuse the Delay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry not to have any updates this weekend. I&#8217;ve been a bit busy with the Orthodox Easter holiday and family events.
I&#8217;ll have something up this week.
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		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/site-news/248</link>
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		<title>Gardener&#8217;s Update, 4/12/09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, a little house keeping. I changed the title of this thread from “My Garden” to “Gardener’s Update.” It just sounds better. Also, I will use this forum for discussions of general gardening interest and not limit it to my vegetable garden.
That being said, last week I was on vacation. I focussed on doing work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/241</link>
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		<title>Rock On, Part 1: The Early Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I once had a band. No, I had several bands. More to the point, I was 
in several bands. Let me clarify.
I wanted to start posting some of the songs from the various bands I’ve been in. I realized to do so it would make sense to include a history of said bands. This history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/music/230</link>
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		<title>My Garden, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does my garden grow? Pretty damned well. So far.
Here we are, one week after the completion of the garden beds and there are already signs of life. The Lettuce and the Radishes have not only germinated, but there are tiny sprouts poking their heads our from the ground. Man, that was fast.
It&#8217;s amazing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/221</link>
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		<title>My Garden, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karl, how does your garden grow?
Well, I don’t know. No one knows. It’s impossible to know. Technically, I don’t even know if it can be called a garden yet. There are the garden beds and the mulch, but no plants. It’s hasn’t had any plants in it’s entire existence.  Give it a chance; it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/191</link>
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		<title>Coming in a Little Over a Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a lesson on procrastination. I went to sign up for the &#8220;Bike New York&#8221; five boro bike tour. Turns out all thirty thousand tickets sold out on March 14th. So, it looks like I won&#8217;t be going this year nor will I be blogging about it. I mean, I could blog about it, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/189</link>
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		<title>Coming Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well that wasn&#8217;t very nice of me. I had a couple of weeks where I posted two fairly decent entries a week and then I just up and stopped. My apologies to those whose hopes of regular entries were dashed. While I realize that group probably encompasses just me, I wanted to say so anyhow.
Well, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/site-news/187</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Not the Renaissance Man I Should Be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or,
Modern Day Distractions
As I sit before my computer to write this entry, already I’m distracted from the task. The software I’m using allows one to write in full screen mode. This means, it will fill the screen with a black background and then lay a white strip (a paper roll metaphor) down the middle of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/179</link>
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		<title>The Watchmen &#8211; The Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What hasn’t already been said about “The Watchmen” that I can add? Nothing. But, that won’t stop me from chiming in. I saw the movie adaptation last night (3/7/09) and was right well pleased with it. 
Of all the movies I have ever seen adapted from a novel or graphic novel, this was by far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/175</link>
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		<title>Into the Wild Green Yonder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fourth and final planned “Futurama” DVD, “Into the Wild Green Yonder,” was released last week (February 23, 2009) and my friends and I got together to watch it last Saturday night. If you don’t know, I am and always have been (since it originally aired in March 1999) a huge fan of “Futurama.” It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/news/172</link>
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		<title>Site Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to patrons of this humble site. I&#8217;ve changed the comment approval process. Now, comments will be posted without approval as long as the poster includes their e-mail address. I don&#8217;t collect the information, it is just used for authentication.
Also, please keep your language family appropriate. I retain the right to remove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://karl.tsakos.us/blog/site-news/164</link>
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