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	<description>Odeen's world of rational thought</description>
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		<title>Introduction to Warfare</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/introduction-to-warfare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[piaget]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the gita]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction to The Gita
For a spring morning, it was ferociously hot. The dust kicked up by the hooves of the thousands of horses felt like baked hot wooden sphincters puncturing the face but this was war, and it hadn&#8217;t begun yet. Two massive armies stood facing each other gauging the others&#8217; might before the conch is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=109&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Con-Science</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/con-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insulation tape]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or you may as well call it Manufacturing. But not to be confused with another term that spells the same and refers to something that the Politicians and babus of this great nation are found lacking in.
What I am venturing out to say is that what you see as a whole, being rolled out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=107&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Will Need a Screw-driver</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/you-will-need-a-screw-driver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[truck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; And a couple of metal toothpicks (alright two pop rivets if you may) and you can start up any truck in the factory for a short drive. In fact now that I think about it, you really don&#8217;t even need a screw-driver, you may as well use a strip of metal, 2-inch nails or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=105&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conversations from the Workplace 2</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/conversations-from-the-workplace-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[factory musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presented here is casual conversation between five people including yours truly (who remained tight-lipped most of the while). For reasons I think obvious, I shall not mention names (its for my own good). They are quite simply A, B, C &#38; D. You really needn&#8217;t know who&#8217;s who.
A: This dal today is so watery! It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=103&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Sunday</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/chocolate-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a little more chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cadbury's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dark chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[more chocolate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lithmus.wordpress.com/?p=99</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking &#8211; there should have been an &#8216;e&#8217; rather than a &#8216;y&#8217; in the title of this post. But that little assumption is something you&#8217;ve made from your a priori experience that when the good day of the week is preceded by names normally relating to flavors and flavoring agents, one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=99&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogues from the Workplace 1</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/dialogues-from-the-workplace-1/</link>
		<comments>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/dialogues-from-the-workplace-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[factory musings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presenting an interaction between my boss (B), a senior manager and yours truly (ME).
ME: Sir, there is a tribe of monkeys in the PPC Department and I don&#8217;t think I can handle them all by myself. It is scary to walk in there.
B: Those lousy bastards! When will they ever do one thing right? How long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=96&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil, Grease, and All About Being a Process Owner</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/oil-grease-and-all-about-being-a-process-owner/</link>
		<comments>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/oil-grease-and-all-about-being-a-process-owner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trucks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seatbelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hosur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prototypes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lithmus.wordpress.com/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I made three overnight bus trips, each of about 300 km, between Hosur and Madras within a span of eight days. The last one being on the night of August 8th, it was a Saturday and a wet Saturday night. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve ever told you about my karmic connection with the rain Gods. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=94&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s Where the Truth Lies</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/heres-where-the-truth-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/heres-where-the-truth-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A polygraph testing machine has an accuracy of 61% (No, you don&#8217;t need citation, I already checked it up). 61% is not an impressive figure, it is only marginally better than flipping a coin and expecting a result you called for. Be that as it may after extensive research, the results from a polygraph test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=91&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Again!</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/moving-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit juices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nainital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pencil sketches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudrapur]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lithmus.wordpress.com/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a few weeks, I shall be absorbed as permanent employee. In other words, the beginning of the end of college life lies just two weeks into the future. The general interpretation of such a situation as I have gathered from fellow trainees is that we have two weeks to have the fun that we&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=89&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Deserving Swiss, Caribbean Cricket and a Loose Gibbon</title>
		<link>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/a-deserving-swiss-caribbean-cricket-and-a-loose-gibbon/</link>
		<comments>http://lithmus.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/a-deserving-swiss-caribbean-cricket-and-a-loose-gibbon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Odeen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chennai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cricket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nadal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Indies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lithmus.wordpress.com/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Work hasn&#8217;t become so monotonous that I come up with something as disturbing as Marx&#8217;s manifesto but really, I can&#8217;t wait till I am informed about my eventual location and my key result areas. However, two things happened over this week and the last, that have given me immense pleasure.
Federer took the French, a prediction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lithmus.wordpress.com&blog=173508&post=86&subd=lithmus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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