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	<title>RedBeard's Curious Life</title>
	<link>http://blog.andyc.org</link>
	<description>Yet Another Internet Nutcase</description>
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		<title>Gold and Silver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a proliferation of commercials and ads lately for gold-peddling merchants. Some want to buy your unwanted gold jewelry, some want to sell you pure gold coins. They try to pull you in with some simple hook, but the market of precious metals is hardly simple. We are currently experiencing the highest unit price [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Firearms are Fun! Part 5: Savage 10FP .308</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After using my .22 rifle and AR-15 for a while, I got the itch for long-range precision shooting. The .22 cartridge is only accurate to 100 yards, and .223 is accurate to about 600 yards, although my AR-15 isn&#8217;t super-accurate. Drawing inspiration from movies and games, I wanted a rifle that could reach out to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=103</link>
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		<title>A decade in review: 2000-2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A highlight reel of the last decade of my life, it&#8217;ll be hard to top this one!
2000:
Started working on Destiny3D
2001:
Graduated high school
Worked at Fuddruckers
Started university at Georgia Tech
2004:
Internship at Autodesk
2005:
Graduated from GA Tech
Visited Hawaii and England
Started a job at Microsoft, on Direct3D
Started skiing regularly
2007:
Met Sarah
2008:
Visited Tokyo, Japan
Sarah moved in
Got a quaker parrot
2009:
Got into shooting guns, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Firearms are Fun! Part 4: SIG P226</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prior to my shotgun acquisition, I was also looking at handguns, as they are far more compact and suitable to carry on the street or in a car. I visited the local indoor range and tried a variety of rentals: 3 different calibers (9mm, .40, and .45), 5 handguns in each caliber, firing 10 rounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Firearms are Fun! Part 3: Remington 870</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After enjoying my two rifles (the .22 and AR-15) for a couple of months, I felt compelled to own a shotgun. The selection of shotguns is quite broad, with different calibers, barrel lengths, and action types, all with somewhat specific purposes in mind. Longer barrels are appropriate for longer-range shooting, and semi-auto actions are good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Firearms are Fun! Part 2: AR-15 by Stag Arms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuation of series. Previous post.
The .22 rifle is a nice gun, but I wanted something with more reach, more punch, and more reliability &#8211; something capable of taking large magazines and spending them at a relatively high rate of fire and with good accuracy. At the time, there was much rumor of the political powers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Firearms are Fun! Part 1: Remington 597</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried target shooting earlier this year, and discovered how exhilirating it can be to send some hot lead flying down-range. After taking an outing with some friends and trying various pistols and rifles at the local range, I decided I had to buy some of my own that were even better than the ones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=80</link>
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		<title>Energy, Economy, and Society Rise and Fall Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The essential foundation of our entire economy is energy. Some other support is provided by material property, time, and intelligence, but those are worthless without energy. In the face of a dwindling energy supply, changing climate, and increasing population, strain on our economy will likely increase.

The most basic transaction of bartering one thing for another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Chase Bank = Rape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just had my Washington Mutual account moved over to Chase. The process was relatively painless for me, only having to change my username so that it includes a number, and I can now check my online banking through chase.com instead of wamu.com
The pleasantries cease there, though. My savings rate, which is the entire reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=62</link>
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		<title>A Saddening Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just over a year ago, I lost my mother to cancer, lymphoma specifically. RIP Jane Campbell, 1955-2007.
Obviously it&#8217;s taken me a while to kind of recover, and I think writing something about the process might help me some more. I&#8217;ve actually refrained from writing other blog posts because I didn&#8217;t want to let this pass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.andyc.org/?p=60</link>
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