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Review of Argo .
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Review of The Devil Wears Prada .

Review of The Usual Suspects .
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Review of Point Break .
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Review of The Holdovers .

Review of The Big Sleep .
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Working on Morocco .
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Review of The Secret of Santa Vittoria .
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The Ultra Secret Boys Go Forth .
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An Early Look At Convoke .
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The Thoughts of Painted People .
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Treasury of the Acorn Woodpecker .
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An Unabashed Praying Mantis .
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Review of Expanded Universe .

Review of The Marriage Portrait .

Blessed by the Great Horned Owl .
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Green Heron With Fish .
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The Job Search Bears Fruit .
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Praise for 2d6 Taoists .
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Golden-Crowned Sparrow Feasts on Berries .
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Watching Movies to Study Intrigue .
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Review of The Quiller Memorandum .
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Review of Lucky Number Slevin .
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Review of Three Days of the Condor .
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Review of Cheater .

Review of Hopscotch .
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2d6 Taoists .
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Review of The Big Con .

Review of The Seven Madmen .

A Bewick's Wren in Nesting Season .
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Anna's Hummingbird, Mid-Wingbeat .
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Acorn Woodpecker Has Herself a Snack .
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Review of Death Comes for the Archbishop .

Review of The Tattooed Soldier .

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I Read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead .

Review of Trinity .

Snowy Egret Defeats Night Heron .
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Review of Society and Culture in Early Modern France .

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A Tale of Thirty Years .
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Canary Islands Map .
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Finally, Another Good D&D Writer .
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Review of Towers at the Edge of a World .

Swinhoe's White-Eye, Acting Silly .
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Pacific Tree Frog Fondly Regards Creation .
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A Bald Eagle in Flight .
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Downy Woodpecker .
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White-Faced Ibis .
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Feeling Fresh .
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Review of The Old Patagonia Express .

Review of The Kingdom by the Sea .

Review of Little, Big .

Review of The Caine Mutiny .

Review of The Mediterranean .

Review of The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 .

Review of Rivers of Gold .

Review of Medieval Monasticism .

Review of The Book of My Enemy .

Review of A Fortunate Life .

Review of Wheels of Commerce .

Review of Collected Prose and Poetry, 2017-2022 .

Review of Golden Lads .

Review of Sea of Glory .

Review of Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians .

Review of Undaunted Courage .

Review of A Moveable Feast .

Game Analytics and Procedural Content Generation Questions for a Gaming Company .
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Review of The Bicentennial Man .

Review of West of the Revolution .

Planar Gating and Travel .
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I Read The Annotated Lolita .

What I've Been Up To .
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Review of Alone Through the Forbidden Land: Journeys in Disguise through Soviet Central Asia .

Review of Conquest, Tribute, and Trade .

Review of A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry .

Review of Computer Lib/Dream Machines .

I Read Where have the Old Words Got Me? Explications of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems .

Review of Pale Fire .

I Read A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas .

Review of Collected Poems .

Review of Coal: A Sonnet Sequence .

I Read A Commentary on Tennyson's "In Memoriam" .

Review of "In Memoriam A.H.H." .

Review of Terminal Moraine .

Review of Our Western Furniture .

Review of The Economic History of China .

The Drongo, Interview #12: Jacob Hall .
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Review of The Corpse Walker .

Who Styles the Whostyles? .
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Review of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones .

Review of Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 .

Input Growth .
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Review of Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon .

Review of Wordstruck .

The Drongo, Interview #11: Hayley VanderJagt .
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Eulogy for a Master .
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A Very Shanske Birthdave .
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Higher Flight .
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Review of The Search for Modern China .

You've Gotta Have a Prince .
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The Drongo, Interview #10: Eyal Herling .
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The Gamer's Prelude .
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The Drongo, Interview #9: Alexi Caracotsios .
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Review of The Futurological Congress .

Potential Topics for HWC Americas .
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Review of Desert Solitaire .

I Read Candide .

Review of The Languages of China .

The Drongo, Interview #8: Larry Drui .
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The Drongo, Interview #7: Ryan Wright .
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Review of Selected Poems .

Review of Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins .

The Drongo, Interview #6: Drew Jackson .
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Let's Homebrew that Website .
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Some Topic Proposals for HWC Americas .
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Review of His Master's Voice .

Letter to h0p3 about Hands, Interviews, and Software Stupidity .
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Review of Dictionary of the Khazars .

Gift Suggester .

Letter to h0p3 During His Pause .
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The Drongo, Interview #5: Nick LeFlohic .
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Darth Xenon .
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Darth Skivin: Still Livin' .
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Overmuch Magic .
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Review of The King of Elfland's Daughter .

Orion's Unicorn .
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The Retreat of Elfland .
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Almost Elfland .
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The Drongo, Interview #4: Lyla Boyajian .
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The Drongo, Interview #3: Carla Paloma .
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Tanner Greer Notices Me, Oh My .
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A Shout-Out in Paper Republic .
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The Drongo, Interview #2: Chris Stasse .
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Review of Left of Bang .

Santa Cruz Portfolio .

Seagulls .
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It's Time for Better No-Hands Computer Interfaces .
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I Read Imperial China, 900-1800 .

Review of Why Things Hurt .

The Drongo, Interview #1: Karthik Bala .
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Review of Bureaucracy .

Labels for Blog Titles .
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Software Parody .
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Poetic Meter Analyzer .
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The Drongo: Interview FAQ .
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The Drongo .
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Letter to Maya .
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An Integer That Only Decreases? .
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The Rarest Mandarin Syllables .
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Syllables with Few Characters .
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Another Great Turnout for Homebrew Website Club .
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"Action" Drew Jackson Text Message Extraction .
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Daoist Droning .
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Sir Fedivere .
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Review of Finding Them Gone .

Reese's Cup .
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Review of China in Ten Words .

Mountain Call and Mountain Response .
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A Gift from "Endlessly Stupid" to a New Hermit .
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Letters To and From Chris Stasse .
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Countryside Nastiness .
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Why Beeminder? .
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Testing My Micropub Implementation .
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Taking this Website Dynamic .
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Speech Synthesizers .
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Review of Incident at Vichy .

Review of The Price .

Notable Chinese Characters .
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Darth Vurm .
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Testing Poem Annotations .
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Bloo With You .
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Review of Death of a Salesman .

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Another Letter to h0p3 .
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Letter to h0p3 - Salutations, September 1st .
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Linguary .
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HWC West Coast Screenshot .
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Review of Encounters with the Archdruid .

I Had Eye Surgery .
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A Basket of Fresh Links .
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I Read Works of Benjamin Franklin .

Review of Ivanhoe: A Romance .

Review of Unauthorized Versions: Poems and Their Parodies .

The Joys of Open-Source Docs .
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Ubasute .
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Inform 7 Website Templates Leak Information .

Dumb Arithmetic .
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Uses This .
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Review of A Man in Full .

Dew .
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Bananas .
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Portland Protest Preparations .
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That's Right, Voyeur .
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"Huge Katana" Enters Production .
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State of the Three Gorges Dam .
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Slurping the Juice of the Gwernberry Tree .
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Dream of Dang Village .
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Review of The Forever War .

Review of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress .

Review of King Leopold's Ghost .

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Review of Slaughterhouse-Five .

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Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass .

Review of The Mote in God's Eye .

Redesigning the Blog Index .
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Review of Why Does He Do That? .

Darth Unfinished .
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Review of Lao She Short Story Collection .

Code Library for the Sexagenary Cycle .

Letter to h0p3 .
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The Man from H.0.P.3. .
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Get Excited for IndieWebCamp West 2020 .
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Review of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee .

A Round of Thanks .
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Chinese Document Search .
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Joslyn Consulting .
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Web Services for Programming with ISBNs .
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Responsive Images and Text .
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Review of Against The Grain .

Review of The Republic of Pirates .

A Text-Adventure Game Engine .
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Review of Travels with Samantha .

Review of Passions and Other Stories .

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Review of Things Fall Apart .

Review of Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You .

Linguistic Autism Symptoms .
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Review of How Does a Poem Mean? .

Classifying Sith Lords .
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Seth, the Ancient Sith .
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Darth Skivin .
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Darth ASCII .
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Review of Life on the Mississippi .

Review of Sunrise with Seamonsters .

Review of Working .

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3bo .
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Huge Katana .
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Choosing a Notation for Mandarin Romanization .
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Review of Invisible Cities .

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Post Office Valentines .
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For Dog Eyes Only .

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Review of Oblomov .

Chinese New Year for a Small Town in Jiangxi Province: Nobody Can Escape These Times .
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Hakuna Katana .
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Volunteering with unCoVer .
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What's Up With Gei? .
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A Nonsense Dialogue .

Musings on a New Chinese Name .
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Strange Squeaking .
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Potential Website Improvements .

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Review of The Mists of Avalon .

Hooked on Darjeeling .
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Night Walk .
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Drongo Explained .
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That's Podracing .
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Review of Going Solo .

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Review of Red Sparrow .

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Review of The Discovery of France .

Review of The Story of My Life .

Missing the Moment .
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My Favorite Poems .
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Esther .
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Broken Kinesis, Part 2 .

The Gerblecarp .
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Stanza Written Above a Ridge .
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Santa Rosa Sojourn .
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Adding Tags to Categorize Website Material .
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Swordfighting Videogame with Two Modes .
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Milkshake Sonnet .
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Workout Weight Progression .
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A Translation Interface .
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Presents from Prengubi .
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Review of Growth of the Soil .

Simple but Uncommon Chinese Characters .
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Terrible UI Design in MacOS Chinese Input .
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Turning Off Lisp Semantics .
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Poetry Exercises .
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Review of At the Sign of the Cat and Racket .

Review of The Ode Less Travelled .

Scope of Variables in Inform 7 .
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The Bunghole .
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Figuring Out When I Began This Website .

In Which I Attempt to Give Amazon Money .

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Improved Time Stamps .
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Iron Bull and Sick Duck .
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The Peerless Drongo .
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Zim Pi .
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Two Thirds of a Sonnet for Chance .
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Translating a Conference Slide from Google Developer Days, China 2019 .
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Poem for Cameron and Felix .
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Translating a War Banner .
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Review of A Poetry Handbook .

Review of Transparent Things .

Mr. Breeches .
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Review of Unsong .

Review of Dear Los Angeles .

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1950s Naval Firing Computers .
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Goodbye, Hayley .
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Saber-Tooth Lion .
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Broken Kinesis, Part 1 .

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Darth Preta .
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Californian Phrases .

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Darth Obliti .
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Darth Patrick Flat-Nuts .
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Unnamed Sith .
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Khz'zithr Mai'Tzo-Kol .
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Darth Pthaaargh .
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Darth Chef Cat .
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Darth Dick .
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Darth Lord Kraetertorius .
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Darth Alley .
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Running Cat-Mask Ski-Sith .
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Dominus Pectus .
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Darth Big Boi Maxwell .
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Spins the Hypnotist .
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Darth Asshole .
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Veex .
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Sith Lord Challenge .
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Prengubi Cjiiiifgh .
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Sahr Eh Kolpa .
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Darth Moba the Huttâ„¢ .
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Darth Vegtablor .
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Duglim Hohmschiz (MS-48) .
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Korgoth, the World Destroyer .
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Darth Prius .
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After the Farewell Lunch .
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Review of What About the Rest of Your Life .

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About .

The Friday Ride .

The Promise, Part W .
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Review of The Monuments Men .

Review of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Part 6: Stone Ocean .

Review of Utopia .

Indie Web Camp 2019 .
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Review of If on a winter's night a traveler .

Poems for Friendship Villagers .
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Fedoradventure .
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Fedora .
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Keely .
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Hanna .
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AJ .
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Rory .
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Ian .
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Review of Government in Republican China .

Ideas .

Links .

Review of Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe .

Review of Songs of Innocence .

Hayley and Her Boy Toy .
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Improvements for the Inform Language .
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Ryan Quest .
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A Gift for Gadi .
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Review of Great Poems of the English Language .

Review of Portnoy's Complaint .

Review of The Name of the Rose .

Review of In the Land of Israel .

Review of Coming Apart .

Review of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets .

Review of My Promised Land .

Review of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold .

Review of The Bonfire of the Vanities .

Review of Oil! .

Review of Gateway .

Review of Marvels .

Review of Gargantua .

Review of Three Men in a Boat .

Review of Rules for Radicals .

Kill That Elf .
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It's Dark Outside, and I'm Spider-Man .
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Translation Index .
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Max and Ruby .

Review of The Shadow of the Torturer .

Review of Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China .

Review of Life in a Medieval City .

Review of The Design of Everyday Things .

Review of Blindsight .

Review of Life at the Bottom .

Review of Babbitt .

Review of The Importance of Being Earnest .

Review of Homage to Catalonia .

Review of Crime and Punishment .

Review of The Three-Body Problem .

Review of Sons and Lovers .

Review of The Trial .

Review of The Good Soldier .

Review of The Cyberiad .