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		<title>4K in 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At CES this year, 4K video arrived.  All 3 pieces of the puzzle seem to be falling into the realm of possibility for most Americans: content creation, delivery, and consumption.  On the creation side, quality cameras should hit the sub-$2000 price range this year.  On delivery, Netflix is going to start streaming select content such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Tea Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who leans libertarian in a lot of areas, I&#8217;ve been asked if I was happy about the recent government shutdown and gridlock over the debt ceiling.  Just so we&#8217;re clear, I think it&#8217;s unacceptable that our government operates at a sizable deficit when it already owes around 75% of what the entire country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring 2013 Gardening Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m long overdue for an update on my gardening projects, which, unlike my posts on the subject, have not been on a year-long hiatus.  In my last updates back in 2011, I had been making attempts at turning our back yard into something more than a clear-cut suburban plot of crappy dirt and dead Bermuda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Voted!  But not for Romney&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I agree more with Romney&#8217;s policies than Obama&#8217;s, I didn&#8217;t vote for him.  That&#8217;s partly because, thanks to our antiquated electoral college system, he shouldn&#8217;t need my vote to win Texas.  But that&#8217;s also because I haven&#8217;t seen anything to lead me to believe he actually leads with conviction, or that his policies are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garage Shelving</title>
		<link>http://piqued.brianfrantz.com/?p=292</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teri and I love our house, but one thing that is lacking is storage space.&#160; There is no attic and the closets are packed.&#160; When my dad visited recently he suggested installing some shelves above the garage door, since there’s a fair bit of space between the door’s rails and the ceiling.
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		<title>Photography and the Canon S95</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased the Canon S95, a relatively high-end pocketable digital camera that was recently on sale for a price too good to pass up.  My experience with it so far has challenged my previous views on photography and led me to a better understanding of what makes a photo “good.”
I’ve had point-and-shoots before (a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: Irrigation &amp; Lima Beans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to try to make these posts more concise as I tend to be pretty wordy .&#160; Suffice it to say this time that the 4&#215;12’ vegetable garden I began tilling back in July is planted and the first plants have already risen from the ground!&#160; Here what I’ve done since the last update:
Finished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: 1st Tilling, Grass/Weed Destruction Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teri and I both have some form of agriculture or home food production in our background.&#160; Her father owns farmland near Waco, my mom grew up on an Iowa farm, and my dad’s father maintained a substantial garden as a hobby.&#160; When I was younger, my family also operated a garden in our back yard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: Irrigation Phase 1</title>
		<link>http://piqued.brianfrantz.com/?p=236</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At about the time I had the trees, berries and grapes planted, I did a bunch of reading to figure out how much I should water everything.  I came up with the following document as a guide: Water Schedule.pdf.
Although very helpful, it got really old having to water all 4 plants separately using one soaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: Berries &amp; Grapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After planting trees, we next added some berries and grapes.&#160; Teri’s favorite fruit are berries, including blackberries which generally grow well in Texas.&#160; A specific variety of blackberry is the dewberry, which she grew up eating in pies.&#160; And one of my favorite fruits is grapes.&#160; So that became step 2 of our backyard improvement [...]]]></description>
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