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		<title>Impossible Tasks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The delicious futility of impossible tasks is the catnip of overachievers. &#8211;Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, The Rule of Four<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=49&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Myself, 1995</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intro &#8212; Barak Rosenbloom LO3224 BARAK ROSENBLOOM (REGION#u#10.ETA.ROSENBLOOMB@DOLETA.GOV) Tue, 17 Oct 1995 19:45:41 -0500 Greetings from Seattle! I recently began receiving the emails from friend Majordomo, and have been overwhelmed by both the content and quantity of the messages floating in cyberspace! I wish I had known about this before. I am about to post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=46&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On English Teachers, Coffee Mugs and Tables, 1995</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re: Jargon&#8230; LO3227 BARAK ROSENBLOOM (REGION#u#10.ETA.ROSENBLOOMB@DOLETA.GOV) Tue, 17 Oct 1995 20:09:27 -0500 Earlier this year I was suffering through interminable meetings in an airport hotel which was also the site of a conference of English teachers. As a former English teacher, I thought it would be more fun to hang out with them. After some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=44&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Frogs, 1995</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the discussion on levels of systems, Michael Scudder writes: &#8220;The entities comprising a system participate in many systems simultaneously. So, many different systems may &#8212; indeed, must &#8212; exist at the same time and place. Which is to say that systems interpenetrate and participate in each other (and therefore affect each other). A team [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=43&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Merit Pay, 1995</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of posting from way back: Re: Pay for Performance LO3315 BARAK ROSENBLOOM (REGION#u#10.ETA.ROSENBLOOMB@DOLETA.GOV) Thu, 19 Oct 1995 20:33:38 -0500 Replying to LO3172 &#8211; Here in ETA&#8217;s Seattle office, we&#8217;ve decided as a group (33 people) to create our own merit awards system within the existing governmental pay-for-performance system with which we are straddled. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=42&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Ten!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finished the Ten Day Treasure Hunt this afternoon! There wasn&#8217;t a whole lot in the final installment (that will be rewritten). But man oh man has something shifted in me. I&#8217;m really noticing how much I just see treasure everywhere. It&#8217;s not just for beginners, but can be a great quick refresher for people who&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=40&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Clint Eastwood Helped Me Understand John Keats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things sometimes take a while to sink in. Back in the 11th grade (1983 or so) I read Ode on Melancholy in Ann Kolvig&#8217;s English class. I got the meaning of the poem&#8211;the words made sense, I had it figured out. And tonight I watched Mystic River (after having read the book a week ago). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=39&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Love Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the Failblog is the best site I&#8217;ve ever seen to celebrate it!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=38&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Nine: What Would I Dig For?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmmm. At first I thought this was a simple day, almost too simple. It&#8217;s sneaky, though. When I had to pick three things I want, one that I&#8217;d sort of dig for, one that I&#8217;d dig hard for, and one that I&#8217;d keep digging and digging and digging for, I had to face something within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=37&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Day Eight: Treasure Map to a Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, okay, I didn&#8217;t do this one for two days&#8211;but I still wrote (in the Treasure Hunt blog and some other material)! Today&#8217;s Treasure Hunt was to create a treasure map to some treasure I&#8217;m hunting; for me, a family. I included the path to the swamp, mountains and dales and forests that can seem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=barakrosenbloom.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2690626&amp;post=35&amp;subd=barakrosenbloom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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