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		<title>Why Cookeville of Nissan Stinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cookeville of Nissan keeps sending me ads to get me to buy a new car there. I&#8217;m guessing this is because (1) I bought a car from them several years ago, and (2) they&#8217;re incredibly desperate. I can sort of see the logic here. &#8220;Buy one Nissan, you might buy a second.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=791&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beetles!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Specifically, the Chrysina beetles from Central America. They are [f]ound in primary pine, juniper, and pine-oak forests between 50-3800m. Adults are frequently attracted to lights. Larvae live in rotten logs. Species feed on the foliage (adults) or rotting logs (larvae) of various trees including species in the genera Abies, Alnus, Arbutus, Heliocarpus, Juglans, Juniperus, Liquidambar, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=782&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To those who oversee my purchasing:</title>
		<link>http://cookeville.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/to-those-who-oversee-my-purchasing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to the tireless staff members who inspect my purchase &#8220;orders&#8221;: I&#8217;d like to thank you for your efforts to conserve public funds and to ensure that I (and by extension the university) are getting the maximum benefit from those funds. I appreciate your willingness to scrutinize even the small details to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=780&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going Emeritus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, one of the books I read and re-read was The Languages of Pao, by Jack Vance. The plot described the social impact of sudden changes to the language on the quiet agrarian world of Pao &#8212; essentially, a group of genius consultants were hired who developed a new set of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=777&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My group!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes! I have some research students now!! And a lab! Which I&#8217;ve mentioned before, to the three people who read this, but I like saying it. Three are undergrads, including two who are quite new (but learning fast). Two are grad students (one of whom I&#8217;m co-advising with someone else; I think it&#8217;ll wind up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=775&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Draft 5?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kinda sad when you&#8217;re reading a student&#8217;s thesis and your only comment is &#8220;this really is draft 5?&#8221; It&#8217;s even worse to be on the student&#8217;s committee. It&#8217;s even worse when the student wants to defend Thursday.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=768&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping up with the undergrads</title>
		<link>http://cookeville.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/keeping-up-with-the-undergrads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My research &#8220;group&#8221; is necessarily going to include undergrads. I say &#8220;necessarily&#8221; because it really is expected, but I&#8217;d want them around anyway. The trouble with that is that I need to come up with research projects that they can reasonably expect to contribute to&#8230; possibly with a very small time commitment (say, 3 hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=766&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burnt French toast</title>
		<link>http://cookeville.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/burnt-french-toast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burnt French toast is still French toast.  And pretty tasty. There&#8217;s probably some sort of life lesson in there but I&#8217;m not feeling that ambitious&#8230;. it&#8217;s summertime.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=763&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Mr Brightside</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got some discouraging email recently&#8230; a young lady that I&#8217;ve liked for quite a while now made it very clear that she&#8217;s not looking for a (romantic) relationship at all right now, she&#8217;s more interested in pursuing her career.  This has left me a little confused, since we&#8217;d had several recent conversations that suggested (to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=760&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the Students, to Save Some Time</title>
		<link>http://cookeville.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/to-the-students-to-save-some-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Student: You write to me as the semester is ending to tell me that you really really really need a B to keep your scholarship, or to get into the fraternity, or to keep your athletic eligibility, or to get into physical therapy school. Apparently you didn&#8217;t realize this back in January.  Or, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cookeville.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4292723&amp;post=756&amp;subd=cookeville&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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