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		<title>The Pool of Fire, by John Christopher (1968)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Old-School Apocalypse April]]></category>
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After the discussion of trilogies (and Martini-Corona&#8217;s eternal John Christopher obsession), I decided this project wouldn&#8217;t be complete without a Tripod book. The Tripod trilogy (&#8230;heh) might have been the first major YA science fiction trilogy, and is certainly a classic.

If you somehow missed these books, the premise is that aliens invade, in giant metal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten!  Years!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the immortal words of Jeremy Piven in Grosse Pointe Blank: &#8220;Ten years!  Ten years!  Ten!  Years!&#8221;  Yes, believe it or not, I have owned this domain for an entire decade.  It&#8217;s been home to everything from passive-aggressive collegiate angst to stories of my travel adventures to this YA lit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When 3.5 in. floppies looked futuristic</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/14/when-35-in-floppies-looked-futuristic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend, a public librarian, found this in her library&#8217;s attic:
Behold, fabulously 80s library poster!
Comment here
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		<title>Hey you kids, get off my 3 1/2 inch lawn!</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/13/hey-you-kids-get-off-my-3-12-inch-lawn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/13/hey-you-kids-get-off-my-3-12-inch-lawn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I checked out a digital camera to a middle schooler.  The only one we had left was one of the old ones that stores the pictures on a floppy disk.  I explained this to my student.  Her friend overheard and asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s a floppy?&#8221;
The first student&#8217;s answer?  &#8220;It&#8217;s like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Tomorrow, by Jean Karl</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/06/strange-tomorrow-by-jean-karl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Hey, everybody, it&#8217;s post-apocalyptic YA from the &#8217;80s!  Home, sweet home.  It even has a watercolory cover and a fresh-faced, all-American heroine named &#8220;Janie Johnson&#8221;!  This book was brought to my attention recently [and by "recently," I mean about six months ago, when I actually read it -- Ed.] by an old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I just went back in time&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;on the internet.  (I mean, how else would you do it?)  Last week I bought a mini-VGA to video adapter and a headphone jack to audio cable adapter, and now all of the beautiful streaming video of the internet is available for viewing on my television.  One $25 purchase is a hell [...]]]></description>
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