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	<title>Salon Des Geeks</title>
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	<description>Present Thoughts of Absent Friends</description>
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		<title>Salon des Grands Bucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amusing that the organizer here  is charaterizing her gathering as a &#8220;salon.&#8221;  We might not have key political figures at our salons, but at least we don&#8217;t charge $250,000 to attend.
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		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2009/07/04/salon-des-grands-bucks/</link>
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		<title>Save the Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kiri alerted me to the extremely geeky-fun and addictive site  Save the Words.  As Kiri said, &#8220;someone went to a lot of trouble to set this up.&#8221;  Check out and enjoy!
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		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2009/02/12/save-the-words/</link>
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		<title>Lagniappe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading this blog entry from Dick Cavett about Palin&#8217;s abuse of language:
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em
It mostly made me feel ill, but I really liked the postscript, which introduced me to the word `Lagniappe&#8217;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe
Fun!
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		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/11/19/lagniappe/</link>
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		<title>NYTimes quiz on grammar and usage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought you grammar mavens might like an exercise: 
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/red-pencils-ready/
Probably too easy for y&#8217;all, but I like the notion of using specific examples from the Times&#8217; own pages.
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		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/11/04/nytimes-quiz-on-grammar-and-useage/</link>
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		<title>Walk for Pancreatic Cancer Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
Sorry for those whom I&#8217;ve already emailed about this, but I wanted to spread the word.  As you know, my father died of pancreatic cancer in August, just over two months after diagnosis.  On Saturday my family and I are doing a walk to benefit the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.  I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/10/30/walk-for-pancreatic-cancer-research/</link>
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		<title>An Overworked Elocutionist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long ago,  back in the mists of time, we had a salon at which the discussion turned at one point to one of my favorite comic poems, An Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Wells.  As you know, the poem is about a little boy named Robert Reese who has memorized so many poems that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/08/14/an-overworked-elocutionist/</link>
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		<title>Hello all!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the mundane salutation, I am happy to be posting. This is a test. I tried last week with little success so here goes.  Donna
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		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/08/04/hello-all/</link>
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		<title>A Nauseous Nocturne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to the poem I read at the Salon: 
A Nauseous Nocturne by Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)
Enjoy!
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		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/08/03/a-nauseous-nocturne/</link>
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		<title>Pagan Grace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As requested, this is the &#8220;grace&#8221; that I read before dinner at the last salon.  I miss you all!
A Ritual to Read to Each Other
by William Stafford
If you don&#8217;t know the kind of person I am
and I don&#8217;t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/07/28/pagan-grace/</link>
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		<title>Motto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is your motto? ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2008/06/10/motto/</link>
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