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		<title>North Carolina Arboretum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday was an absolutely stunning day.  The air was clear, and the temperatures were much cooler than they had been.  We decided to take the convertible up to the Blue Ridge Parkway and have a picnic.  We knew it would be crowded with other Labor Day travelers, but we couldn&#8217;t resist. Initially, the drive did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3564</link>
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		<title>Sunday in the Park with Olivia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday is Chip&#8217;s birthday. Appropriately enough, he was born on Labor Day 34 years ago. To celebrate, several of us met at the Overlook Grill for a Sunday lunch. However, the day really belonged to little Olivia.  Chip and Anna wanted a good photo for Oliva&#8217;s upcoming first birthday.  Houston and I were happy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3561</link>
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		<title>An Evening with the Newberry Indi..Wolves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was the opening day of the college football season. Furman didn&#8217;t have a game, so we decided to join the rest of the family to watch my two nephews play their first game with Newberry College.  It was also the first time that Newberry would play as the Wolves, having had to change their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3552</link>
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		<title>Bring Your Own Broadband &#8211; revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I checked my phone and saw that Verizon was pushing out an update to the operating system. I was excited! I knew that the update would take me from Android 2.1 to version 2.2. That also meant that I would get the components to allow the phone to act as a wifi hub. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3550</link>
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		<title>Nifty Fifty Downtown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the &#8220;golden hour&#8221;, that time in late afternoon when the sunlight filters warmly at an angle covering everything with long, interesting shadows. I hadn&#8217;t been out shooting in awhile, so I grabbed my camera and headed downtown. I parked in the Richardson Street lot behind Mast General Store.  Normally on a Thursday night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3544</link>
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		<title>Crowded Cunningham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t planned to go paddling this weekend. However, someone posted a last-minute trip on the Greenville Canoe and Kayak Meetup group for Lake Cunningham, and I made a last-minute decision to join them. It turned out to be really last minute, because I overslept, and almost didn&#8217;t make it.  Fortunately, Lake Cunningham is close, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3540</link>
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		<title>Ebenezer, Shiloh, Moriah, and Beulah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo &#8211; Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church, Mount Carmel, South Carolina Saturday afternoon my sister Glynda and I had ridden up toward Saluda, NC, for lunch.  She and I both love exploring, so on the way home we were taking several side roads and rambling over the countyside.  Our route took us past Ebenezer Church near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3533</link>
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		<title>Sustainability, Greenability, and Misunderstandings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three seemingly unrelated tales of environmental misunderstanding&#8230; When I was playing disc golf at Furman Sunday afternoon I noticed something unusual. There were weeds everywhere and the place looked badly overgrown. This was most noticeable around several of the park benches and picnic tables around the lake. Furman usually keeps immaculate grounds. Not a blade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3523</link>
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		<title>Disc Golf at Furman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back last spring Furman University put up an official disc golf course.  Sunday was a beautiful (albeit, hot) day, so I decided to spend the afternoon playing a round. Background As a student here a quarter of a century ago we played quite a lot of Frisbee golf.  We used standard-sized Frisbees (there was no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3520</link>
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		<title>Online Tonal Toys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A random link led me to a series of fantastic tonal toys. Some of these are simply diversions, and some are elaborate programs that can be used to create amazing compositions. Here&#8217;s a quick run-down of what I found&#8230; Pulsate Think wind chimes. This little Flash app by Andre Michelle is hypnotic and addictive.  Clicking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.randomconnections.com/?p=3513</link>
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