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             <title>3D Printing</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[We use 3D printing to fabricate parts for a Jacob&rsquo;s Staff, a tool used in geology. For several years, my graduate students handled the printing, and they each became skilled at it. Unfortunately, as each of them graduated, their knowledge was largely lost because it wasn&rsquo;t written down. I set out to learn the whole process for myself and to document what we do.]]></description>
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             <title>Work-life Balance</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[For many people, work-life balance largely means, &ldquo;How do I keep work from enveloping everything&rdquo;, so I&rsquo;ll focus on that issue. Here are six guidelines I&rsquo;ve found useful.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Logic Pro iPad Starter Guide</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[I had trouble understanding how to connect a guitar to Logic Pro on the iPad, and all the tutorials seemed too long. After some experimentation, I discovered that it isn&rsquo;t hard. Here&rsquo;s how.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Cyanide in Apple Seeds</title>
             <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2025-03-15.html</link>
             <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve eaten the entire apple &mdash; fruit, skin, core, and seeds &mdash; for years without ill effect. Whenever someone sees me do this, they inevitably say something like, &ldquo;Well, you know, apple seeds contain cyanide,&rdquo; followed by a cocked eyebrow and maybe a finger wag. Yet, I&rsquo;m still here. It&rsquo;s time to look into just how dangerous apple seeds are.]]></description>
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             <title>Rating AC/DC albums, so you don&rsquo;t have to</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve been listening to a lot of AC/DC lately and torturing my brother with morning quotes from their lyrics. (Of course, he knew them all). As we debated the pros and cons of various albums, I decided it was time to rate them like I did for Rush.]]></description>
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             <title>Lotus S-type guitar</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[My niece recently gave me a guitar that belonged to her husband, who unexpectedly passed away about a year ago. She wanted me to have his first guitar, a Lotus S-type (Stratocaster-type). I&rsquo;ve been trying to learn about his instrument, and this is what I&rsquo;ve discovered.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Rating Rush Albums, a Descent into Nerdery</title>
             <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2024-01-09.html</link>
             <description><![CDATA[While reading Geddy Lee&rsquo;s <i>My Effin&rsquo; Life</i>, I was struck by his story of how Neil Peart listened to all of their albums while he was fighting cancer. It also reminded me of various rankings of Rush studio albums and how I agreed with some but differed with others. It was time to give the entire studio catalog another listen and come up with my ranking. That&rsquo;s where the nerdery comes in.]]></description>
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             <title>Asian Jumping Worm</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[While raking some leaves by the curb today, I kept seeing these wildly thrashing earthworms and remembered reading about the Asian Jumping Worm (<i>Amynthas agrestis</i>). We have them.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Hummingbird Clearwing</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[Our lantana is in full bloom, attracting many kinds of butterflies. I saw what looked to be a very small hummingbird, but it proved to be a moth, the Hummingbird Clearwing (<i>Hemaris thybe</i>).]]></description>
             <pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Deep Linking from an iOS Widget</title>
             <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2023-07-20.html</link>
             <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;d made lockscreen widgets for a few of my iOS apps, but I had been butting my head trying to make them deep-link into an app so that I could take users to a particular part of the app. The answer turned out to be just a few lines of code.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Simple Music Videos</title>
             <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2023-03-19.html</link>
             <description><![CDATA[I like to record my guitar playing to take a snapshot of where I&rsquo;m at in my skills. The problem is that the sound from the iPhone&rsquo;s microphone can be tinny, like it is coming through a can. This is solved by routing the sound directly from the amplifier into the iPhone, using the Scarlett 2i2 audio interface.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Creating Apple Watch Apps: The Missing Steps</title>
             <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2023-03-12.html</link>
             <description><![CDATA[I recently uploaded an iOS app update, one that included an all-new Apple Watch app. I had a suspicion that the watch app wasn&rsquo;t included in the archive uploaded to App Store Connect. I was right: when the app was released, the watch app was missing. Fixing this involved three steps, ones that took more sleuthing than I would have expected.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 9:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Spring Wildflowers</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[An afternoon walk today in the UGA Botanical Gardens revealed the vanguard of spring wildflowers. Common Blue Violets were the most common and widespread, but I was surprised in the end how many species I saw. Flowers were most common in shady, moist, hardwood valleys and in the moist sandy areas along the levee of the Middle Oconee River. Hardwood ridges and the pine forests were nearly devoid of flowers.]]></description>
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             <title>Scarlett 2i2 Audio Interface</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[I got a Scarlett 2i2 audio interface for Christmas, and it has made recording so much easier. Focusrite has a great set of videos for getting set up. From those and my experiences, here are my notes for quickly setting up the Scarlett for 2i2 for recording in GarageBand.]]></description>
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             <title>Cobalt Crust Fungus</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[Winter here is filled with various shades of brown and gray, so anything else stands out. While clearing some downed branches in my yard today, I came across a strikingly blue fungus, the Cobalt Crust Fungus.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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             <title>Lycopods</title>
             <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2022-12-31.html</link>
             <description><![CDATA[On an overcast hike yesterday at Standing Indian Mountain in North Carolina, the bright green of two small plants stood out against the dreary winter browns. Both are lycopods, minor players in today&rsquo;s world, but the dominant plants millions of years ago in the Pennsylvanian Period.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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             <title>Creating an R Package</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve always shared my R code as source files, but have been wanting to share it as a package. Here&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve learned.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Writing Tips</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[Here are a few useful articles I&rsquo;ve found for improving your writing.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2022 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Taking Photos for Science</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[A few simple guidelines can improve your photos, especially when you plan to use them in a scientific article.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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             <title>Brown Bellytooth</title>
             <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2021-04-24.html</link>
             <description><![CDATA[After a good hard rain, a snail search turned up the usual suspects on our street, with about four Common Buttons for every White-lipped Globe. Searching the leaf litter around one of our hickories revealed an empty shell of a species I haven&rsquo;t found before, a Brown Bellytooth.]]></description>
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             <title>Two common snails</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[With spring, snails are becoming more active, and you can easily find them on our street the morning after it rains. Two of these are common to the region, the Common Button and White-lip Globe. I have found a third snail in our neighborhood, but have seen it only once. I will post photos of it when I have more photographs and a better description.]]></description>
             <pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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             <title>Converting an app from UIKit to SwiftUI</title>
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             <description><![CDATA[UIKit apps and SwiftUI apps have a completely different internal structure in Xcode. Building on Sam Khawase&rsquo;s great guide, here is how I have converted my apps from UIKit to SwiftUI. My conversion is done in one step, instead of progressing through a series of steps where the app is a hybrid of UIKit and SwiftUI.]]></description>
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            <title>Minimal MVVM in SwiftUI</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2021-02-20.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Using SwiftUI effectively is made easier by choosing the right architecture for your app. Ever since Cocoa, Apple had emphasized a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, but SwiftUI works best with a Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) architecture.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2021 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Currahee Flowers - October</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-11-01.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Even so late in the season, Currahee Mountain still has flowers, although most of the fall within a single genus of asters, <i>Symphyotrichum</i>. Many of the flowers are smaller, and there are fewer of them, so they aren&rsquo;t as noticeable as the explosions of color in May and September. Even so, a few patches of blue asters are quite striking.]]></description>
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            <title>An Unappetizing Milkcap</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On our walk this morning, Tish noticed a particularly unappetizing mushroom, and we both commented that it looked like entrails. It&rsquo;s one of the Milkcaps, called the <b>Silver-Blue Milky</b>, or <i>Lactarius paradoxus</i>.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>From CocoaPods to the Swift Package Manager</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-10-04.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For several of my iOS apps that needed Dropbox capabilities, I&rsquo;ve used CocoaPods to let me use the SwiftyDropbox framework. CocoaPods offered a great way to incorporate external frameworks, but I wasn&rsquo;t a big fan. Updates were done by the command-line, and every new Swift release made the whole thing seem fragile. When I saw that SwiftyDropbox was now available in the Swift Package Manager, I knew it was time to switch.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Currahee Flowers - September</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-09-27.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Just as in Athens, the trail up Currahee Mountain is covered with yellow flowers. What surprised me, though, was the amazing diversity, as well as the number of less obvious flowers that are not white.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>September Wildflowers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[September is the month of tall plants covered with yellow flowers. There&rsquo;s also a few that are less common, less obvious, and take a little searching. These are the flowers of September.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Brown Snake</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Brown Snakes (<i>Storeria dekayi</i>) are a very common snake in this part of Georgia, but often go unnoticed because they spend much of their time under the leaf litter. I saw this one on our street one morning in late May.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>August Wildflowers</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-09-12.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Why yes, it is the middle of September. What better time to tell you what flowers you were looking at a month ago, in August? Both the diversity and especially the abundance of flowers was way down in August, maybe because it had been so dry. Here are the new flowers of August.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2020 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Swift and Raspberry Pi - an update</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-09-07.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Several years ago, I wrote a series of posts on running Swift on a Raspberry Pi and using it to interact with sensors. Several changes have been made to Swift and it&rsquo;s time to bring that work up to date.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>The Return of the Fungi</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-08-30.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After a rainy week following a hot and dry summer, fungi have exploded in our forests. On a hike in the UGA Botanical Gardens this week, I&rsquo;ve never seen so many or so many types before. Here are some photographs of those, plus some from our yard, and some from Currahee Mountain.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Timber Rattlesnake</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-08-29.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Timber Rattlesnakes (<i>Crotalus horridus</i>) are widespread and common in the eastern United States, but I&rsquo;ve rarely seen one (maybe twice before in 50 years). Seeing one is a real treat, especially when it as beautiful and large as this one from Currahee Mountain.]]></description>
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            <title>July Wildflowers</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-08-01.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Summer brings its own flowers, many who have been greening up since winter. A few earlier bloomers are still going as well, including Mock Strawberry, Cat&rsquo;s Ear, White Clover, Carolina Horsenettle, Smooth Spiderwort, and Rough Daisy Fleabane. Here are the new flowers of July.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2020 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>A Few More Fungi</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-07-31.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some hiking in the UGA Botanical Gardens a couple of weeks ago revealed several new fungi, a few of which I cannot identify.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>A Few Fungi</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learning fungi seems daunting, but even so, it&rsquo;s hard not to notice some of the more obvious ones. Here are a few from this spring. Some are from our neighborhood, and many are from the UGA Botanical Gardens.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>June Wildflowers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Even though the abundance and diversity of flowers have really tailed off from April and May, some new flowers have appeared. These are the flowers of June in Athens.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Currahee Wildflowers, Part 2</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-06-21.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I returned to Currahee Mountain yesterday to figure out yellow flowers. I also found a few new ones.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Currahee Wildflowers</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-06-13.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A hike to the top of Currahee Mountain last Sunday surprised me with an extraordinary diversity of flowers. The flowers showed well the relationship between soils developed on felsic versus mafic rock, as well as the difference in flowers between forests and more sunlit areas.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Dragonfly Bookends</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-06-07.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[My adventures today started and ended with unusual dragonflies: a Fawn Darner and a Gray Petaltail.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Oak-Apple Galls</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-06-06.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[All spring, I&rsquo;ve noticed brown lumpy spheres about the size of a golfball, and figured they were a puffball, a type of fungus. They&rsquo;re not; they&rsquo;re much more interesting.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: Shrubs</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We have several types of shrubs, both native and introduced. This list is likely to grow, as I am certain I have only scratched the surface of what is around.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: Simple Toothed Leaves</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-05-27.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[We have at least ten common local trees with simple toothed leaves, and they can be difficult to tell apart. For many of these, the bark is often the best clue for identification.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: Simple Entire Leaves</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-05-26.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[We have five common local trees with simple, non-palmate leaves that have smooth (non-toothed) margins: Black Tupelo, Flowering Dogwood, Osage Orange, Southern Magnolia, plus the non-native and highly invasive Chinese Privet. All of their leaves are distinctive.]]></description>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: Palmate Leaves</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-05-25.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The leaves of all of these trees have veins that radiate from the base of the leaf. In the Athens area, these include four maples (Red, Florida, Chalk, and Boxelder), the Sweetgum, American Sycamore, Tuliptree, Sassafras, Eastern Redbud, and the non-native Royal Paulownia.]]></description>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: Oaks</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-05-24.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Oaks are abundant and diverse in our neighborhood. Although they are generally divided into two broad groups, the white-oak group and the red-oak group, I divide them here into oaks that have leaves with rounded lobes and those with pointed lobes.]]></description>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: Compound Leaves</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[All of these trees have compound leaves&mdash;multiple leaflets as part of a single leaf. There are those that have relatively few leaflets, the hickories and the ashes, and then there are the hypercompound trees that have zillions of leaflets. There&rsquo;s also the Winged Sumac, which can&rsquo;t decide if it is a shrub or a tree.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2020 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>May Wildflowers</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-05-22.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[April&rsquo;s flowers have given way to a largely different set of flowers. Rural roadsides in Georgia are spectacular this time of year.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2020 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Hatchling Box Turtle</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This little guy showed up in our lawn while I was mowing today. It&rsquo;s a hatchling Box Turtle.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: Conifers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We have four common native species of conifers in the Athens area. Three are pines (Loblolly, Shortleaf, and Virginia), plus the Eastern Redcedar, all of which are evergreen.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Trees of Athens: An Overview</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Last summer, I started to learn the trees of our neighborhood and Athens in general. I&rsquo;m now able to start writing my notes on how I learned to identify them.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Neighborhood Ferns</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ferns are common in our neighborhood, but not very diverse. Of the four species, only one is particularly common and widespread.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 18:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>A Sunday-morning Paddle</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-04-26.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Bright blue skies and comfy temperatures make it a perfect time for a paddle down the North Oconee.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Neighborhood Vines</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-04-25.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Next up on learning the neighborhood plants: vines.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2020 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Neighborhood Wildflowers</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-04-20.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[With spending more of my walking time in the neighborhood, I&rsquo;ve noticed how many spring wildflowers we have nearby.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 8:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>The Mystery of the Spikes</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-04-19.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Odd-looking wooden spikes began showing up on our sidewalk. The mystery was soon solved.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2020 9:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Spring Caterpillars</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-04-18.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Although late summer and fall is usually the bonanza time for caterpillars here in the Piedmont, I&rsquo;ve seen many caterpillars the past two weeks. Both are species of tent caterpillars.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Little Brown Skink</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-04-17.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After over twenty years in this house, I am still finding new animals. Today it was a Little Brown Skink (<i>Scincella lateralis</i>).]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Really deleting Zoom</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-04-02.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s deleting Zoom, and then there&rsquo;s really deleting Zoom. Here&rsquo;s how to really scrub away all traces of it.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Spring wildflowers, part 3</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-03-27.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The day after the rains was a great one for flowers, including a couple of new ones.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Doubling time to 10x time</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-03-26.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Many of the recent articles on COVID-19 talk about the doubling time of the number of cases, but I wanted to think about it in terms of order of magnitude. The conversion is straightforward.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Spring wildflowers, part 2</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-03-25.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A rainy-day hike in the UGA State Botanical Garden showed that most of the flowers were closed up, but there was one nice new one: a trillium.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Subclassing NSManagedObject</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-03-21.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[On a recent CoreData app I was building, I subclassed my NSManagedObject, but ran into a couple of snags. Here&rsquo;s what happened, how I fixed it, and how I could have avoided them to begin with.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Spring wildflowers</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-03-20.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A hike in the UGA State Botanical Gardens showed sure signs of springs: lots of wildflowers, and a surprise.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Look for the gift</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2020-03-19.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Right now, it can seem like the wheels are flying off the cart. But one of my favorite teachers of our children, Maggie Hunter at Athens Montessori School, offers the best advice I&rsquo;ve seen.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Completion closures in Swift</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-12-22.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Completion closures in Swift are incredibly useful: they let you execute some code after some computationally long task is completed, often a task that takes an indeterminate amount of time to complete.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Installing an iOS archive from Xcode 9</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-10-12.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you need to install an older version of an iOS app you&rsquo;ve developed so that you can test that migration is handled properly when a user updates your app. Apple makes this an easy two-step process in Xcode 9.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Measuring the solar eclipse</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-08-22.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Yesterday&rsquo;s total solar eclipse was spectacular, especially along the line of maximum totality near Clemson, South Carolina, where we watched it. I used my Arduino temperature and light logger to record the progression of the eclipse.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Adding light to the temperature logger</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-08-20.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[During tomorrow&rsquo;s eclipse, air temperature is supposed to drop, so what&rsquo;s a scientist supposed to do? Get some data, of course! I&rsquo;ll modify my Arduino temperature logger so that I can log the light level and the temperature simultaneously.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2017 10:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Taking the unmanned aircraft general exam</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-07-31.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I recently took the FAA&rsquo;s Unmanned Aircraft General exam so that I could get my Remote Pilot Certificate. The FAA gives good guidance on what to study for the exam, but it&rsquo;s a large chunk of material. The material is not difficult, but it helps to approach it with a plan, and that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ll describe.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Becoming a developer and being a student</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-06-17.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[About nine years ago, I formed Hunt Mountain Software>and started to become a software developer, not just a programmer. One of the surprises of doing this is that it has helped me to better understand the graduate students that I advise in my day job as a professor of geology, and what they face.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Bird-song sonograms in R</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-05-14.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve birded for many years, and one of my goals this summer is to learn to bird by ear. After starting the Cornell Lab of Ornithology course on How to Identify Bird Songs, I&rsquo;ve become sold on sonograms, pictorial representations of bird songs that show the frequency of the song through time. They&rsquo;re easy to make with a cell phone and R, and that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ll show here.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2017 21:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Swift and the Internet of Things</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-05-11.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This week, I presented a talk at CocoaHeads Atlanta on Swift and the Internet of Things. It&rsquo;s based on my explorations of Swift and Raspberry Pi this past month.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2017 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Swift Package Manager on Raspberry Pi</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-05-05.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Swift Package Manager offers an easy way to add packages to your Raspberry Pi Swift projects. In this post, I&rsquo;ll use it to flash an LED.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2017 14:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Taking the temperature with Swift and Raspberry Pi</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-04-28.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve used Swift to blink an LED on the Raspberry Pi, now it is time to do something new with the Pi&rsquo;s GPIO pins. Today, I take the temperature.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>SSH into a Headless Raspberry Pi</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-04-21.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In my latest explorations of the Raspberry Pi, my goal is to use its GPIO pins as a sensor and report the results on a web page, combining the capabilities of the Pi&rsquo;s. In this post, I set up my Pi to run headless, that is, without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. To do that, I&rsquo;ll need to access it through secure shell.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Swift on Raspberry Pi</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-04-16.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Since being open-sourced by Apple, Swift has been ported to a a variety of platforms, which is good news not only for code reuse and writing in a consistent language, but also because Swift has many good features. I like writing in Swift, in part because it forces me to think critically about what each method returns.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Preserving User&rsquo;s Data</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2017-01-16.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Years ago, many scientists I knew used three Mac apps to plot their data, CricketGraph, KaleidaGraph, and DeltaGraph. Although some of these are still available, some after checkered histories of availability, most scientists I know have moved on to other options, especially <a href="https://cran.r-project.org">R</a>. These apps had proprietary binary data formats for storing the data, the scientists data. You were locked in]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>FTDI Drivers AND OS X 10.11</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2016-07-24.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[While building a new Arduino project on OS X El Capitan (10.11), I wasn&rsquo;t able to connect using a serial port. Getting the serial port as an option was possible with some temporary changes to Apple&rsquo;s System Integrity Protection.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2016 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>David Raup and Balance</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2016-04-24.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I have one observation about Dave that I&rsquo;d to share with you.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>The Basics of Closures in Swift</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2016-01-08.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Closures are one of the great features in Swift.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Late-summer Caterpillars</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2015-09-07.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The end of summer has brought a profusion of caterpillars to our yard, and many of them look like something out of Dr. Seuss.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Salamanders</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2015-08-08.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I went out for a short hike this morning with my 11-year-old son. One of our favorite nearby hikes is the orange trail at the State Botanical Gardens here in Athens. One of the reasons it&rsquo;s a favorite is the stream and the chance to explore for critters.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Arduino and R</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2015-02-22.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Like Hepburn and Bogart, Arduino and R are made for each other. The only trick is getting the two to talk. ]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>DIY Arduino Board</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2015-01-17.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Arduino boards have come down in price, but you can make your own for about $10. It&rsquo;s pretty simple, and it&rsquo;s a good way to learn how an Arduino board works.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Start Something New</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2015-01-11.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[What I&rsquo;ve always admired about Apple is their emphasis on creativity. Inspired by their post Start Something New a couple of weeks ago, I&rsquo;ve started exploring with my camera.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 01:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Indispensable Tools</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2014-12-31.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Dave Verwer&rsquo;s most recent issue of iOS Dev Weekly got me thinking about the tools I use in development. Like Dave, I thought this would be a good time to review which are the most helpful to me.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2014 20:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Data and iOS</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2014-09-06.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In updating one of my apps (Coordinates) to using storyboards instead of .xib files, I took the opportunity to rethink how the app worked as a whole.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2014 20:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Arduino: Taking the weather online</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2013-01-13.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The weather monitor I made has been useful for keeping an eye on conditions in our basement, which can feel a bit damp at times. It would be more useful to see this data from anywhere. Luckily, its easy to turn an Arduino into a web server. As a side benefit, I can also have the Arduino log the data.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Arduino: Weather Monitor</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2012-11-02.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve graduated from temperature to other environmental data: humidity and pressure. For this installment, I&rsquo;ll show a slightly more involved circuit using two excellent sensors from Sparkfun. I&rsquo;ll also use a two-line LCD display to show the current readings.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Put a Lid On It</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2012-09-16.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After building the Arduino temperature logger, I can get to the real question: how can I keep my coffee warmer for longer? After a good bit of experimentation, the answer was intuitive and simple: put a lid on your mug.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Arduino: Temperature Logger</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2012-09-09.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This weekend&rsquo;s fun is a temperature logger. What I am curious about is how quickly my coffee cools off and what I can do to slow that down. More on that next time; for now, I need to build something that can measure temperature in liquids and that can record that temperature so I can plot it.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Arduino: Motion-triggered camera</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2012-09-01.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For a few months now, I&rsquo;ve been learning some electronics through, the open-source microcontroller. I have a few older projects that I&rsquo;ll post soon, but this one is my latest: using Arduino to trigger my Nikon D80 with passive infrared motion-detection sensor.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:20:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Yellow-bellied Slider</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2012-04-21.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This little fellow has been hanging out near our garage the past few days. To get an idea of just <i>how</i> little he is, that&rsquo;s my eight-year-old son&rsquo;s finger next to it.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Should I Go to College?</title>
            <link>http://stratigrafia.org/blog/entries/2012-04-07.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[On the last episode (#71) of Build and Analyze, Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin discussed whether college was necessary. Marco fielded a listener&rsquo;s question about whether the choice of a college mattered for a career, and he went on to the larger question of whether one should go to college at all, especially for someone interested in programming and development. I agree with most of what Marco and Dan said, but there is another way to think about the whole question.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
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