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	<title>The Idea of Progress &#187; virus</title>
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		<title>My Mac Has A Virus&#8211;Call the Smithsonian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[communist manifesto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george wendt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be some kind of superhero.  Things constantly happen around me that are supposed to be impossible.  Allow me to elaborate.
It doesn&#8217;t rain in the desert.  Or if it does, it&#8217;s only at a certain time of the year.  Right now it&#8217;s monsoon season, so one might expect some rain, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I must be some kind of superhero.  Things constantly happen around me that are supposed to be impossible.  Allow me to elaborate.</p>
<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kayak.com/kimg/be/a0/f3008d5a-43fdb7ec2473SonoranDesert.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.kayak.com/kimg/be/a0/f3008d5a-43fdb7ec2473SonoranDesert.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>It doesn&#8217;t rain in the desert.  Or if it does, it&#8217;s only at a certain time of the year.  Right now it&#8217;s monsoon season, so one might expect some rain, but typically it doesn&#8217;t rain much.  On not my first, but my first <i>and</i> second visits to Phoenix, it rained.  The fist time I flew there, it was not only raining, but so badly that the plane had to be diverted to Tucson.  It was not monsoon season.</p>
<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/quefuede/George%20Wendt02.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/quefuede/George%20Wendt02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>I ran into George Wendt once.  He was drinking a beer at a bar.  Honestly.</p>
<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/reflections/images/ref0022s.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/reflections/images/ref0022s.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>I once accidently walked into the 150th anniversary celebration of the publication of the <i>Communist Manifesto</i>.  In Sweden.  All 30,000 of them (actually, I don&#8217;t know how many people were there but it was a lot) went on a march, too.</p>
<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/819.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/819.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>And I have a Mac, and it has a virus.  Macs don&#8217;t get viruses.  My friend suggested that we send it to a museum as the first known Mac that got one.  Now, it&#8217;s not impossible for a Mac to become infected, but extremely unlikely.  That&#8217;s my luck.</p>
<p>I have superpowers.  I know it.</p>
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