<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465</id><updated>2009-02-21T03:46:29.842-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is what</title><subtitle type='html'>I did today.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-7021255882054522041</id><published>2007-06-04T21:08:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-04T21:10:05.503-04:00</updated><title type='text'>so, i'm back</title><content type='html'>in austin, and no longer working in a storage closet.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-7021255882054522041?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/7021255882054522041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=7021255882054522041' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/7021255882054522041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/7021255882054522041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2007/06/so-im-back.html' title='so, i&apos;m back'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-116036972792320378</id><published>2006-10-09T00:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-09T00:55:51.243-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Goodbye...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/_39345537_kims203.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 1px; height: 1px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/_39345537_kims203.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;North Korea.   what were you thinking (or not thinking) ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/_39345537_kims203.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/_39345537_kims203.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;also, on an unrelated note, crepes are delicious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-116036972792320378?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/116036972792320378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=116036972792320378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/116036972792320378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/116036972792320378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/10/goodbye.html' title='Goodbye...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-116009766095961201</id><published>2006-10-05T21:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-05T21:21:59.700-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I've become...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;way too sarcastic to have a meaningful conversation with.   it's great.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-116009766095961201?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/116009766095961201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=116009766095961201' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/116009766095961201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/116009766095961201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/10/ive-become.html' title='I&apos;ve become...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115976371355208975</id><published>2006-10-02T00:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-02T00:35:50.066-04:00</updated><title type='text'>October is here...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goodbye free time.   See you in December.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115976371355208975?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115976371355208975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115976371355208975' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115976371355208975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115976371355208975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/10/october-is-here.html' title='October is here...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115906117973237430</id><published>2006-09-23T21:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-23T21:26:19.743-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I can cook.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was try #2 (don't ask about #1) in my attempt to make an edible dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/IMG_4107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/IMG_4107.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;yum.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115906117973237430?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115906117973237430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115906117973237430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115906117973237430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115906117973237430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-can-cook.html' title='I can cook.'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115898796505530534</id><published>2006-09-23T01:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-23T01:06:05.070-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Normal?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"... in today's world having a  Hungarian-Uraguayan  servicing  American  banks  with Montevidean engineers  managed by Indian technologists who have learned to eat Uruguayan veggie is just the new normal"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Thomas Friedman, 9/22/06  NY Times &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115898796505530534?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115898796505530534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115898796505530534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115898796505530534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115898796505530534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/09/normal.html' title='Normal?'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115249873070096490</id><published>2006-07-09T22:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-07-09T22:33:40.043-04:00</updated><title type='text'>After a Long Layoff...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blog is back with a useless post. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the time gone, I have gone to San Antonio, Big Bend National Park, and Mexico.  Pictures of the trips are on facebook. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's all I really have to say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115249873070096490?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115249873070096490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115249873070096490' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115249873070096490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115249873070096490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/07/after-long-layoff.html' title='After a Long Layoff...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115060235574016816</id><published>2006-06-17T22:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-17T23:48:09.603-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Action Packed Saturday...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;included:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;0. Walk in the crazy wind and rain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  Trip to the Bank where they have only drive through lanes so I walked through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  Farmer's Market visit where I ate all the free samples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Breakfast at a fancy hotel becuase I'm fancy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Irish Pub to watch the world cup becuase there's nothing more fun than drunk Irish people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Gym&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Read a book outside at UT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115060235574016816?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115060235574016816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115060235574016816' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115060235574016816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115060235574016816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/06/action-packed-saturday.html' title='Action Packed Saturday...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115034020469387554</id><published>2006-06-14T22:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-14T22:56:44.703-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Apparently, there's a place...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in Austin where thousands of bats fly up every night. They claim it's the world's largest bat colony... I'm going to check it out one of these days:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/IMG_2307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/IMG_2307.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115034020469387554?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115034020469387554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115034020469387554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115034020469387554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115034020469387554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/06/apparently-theres-place.html' title='Apparently, there&apos;s a place...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115025712787874100</id><published>2006-06-13T23:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-13T23:58:36.813-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Today was uneventful...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;kartik on laptop:&lt;/span&gt; nothing happened today, i'm lost as to what to say&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;jberez: &lt;/span&gt;you can talk about me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this says everything about him you need to know:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/IMG_1974.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/IMG_1974.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115025712787874100?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115025712787874100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115025712787874100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115025712787874100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115025712787874100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-was-uneventful.html' title='Today was uneventful...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115016549804176134</id><published>2006-06-12T22:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-12T22:33:02.156-04:00</updated><title type='text'>IBM has this policy that...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we should do nothing at the office that causes a "Conflict of Interest", meaning anything that distracts us from our work. Last week, we decided to start a World Cup Pool in our little work area with the winner getting a to be determined fancy prize:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/New%20Image.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/New%20Image.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Something tells me this qualifies as one of those conflicts of interest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115016549804176134?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115016549804176134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115016549804176134' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115016549804176134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115016549804176134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/06/ibm-has-this-policy-that.html' title='IBM has this policy that...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-115007820574615380</id><published>2006-06-11T22:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-11T22:22:11.193-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Today I Picked Up...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Dallas Morning News and read it cover to cover while sitting around the UT campus. After slugging through the ridiculous number of articles dealing with the Dallas Mavericks and the NBA finals I finally came across this, tucked away in Section "I":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/temp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/temp.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the &lt;a href="http://www.indianarc.com/"&gt;webpage &lt;/a&gt;here...I'm going. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-115007820574615380?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/115007820574615380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=115007820574615380' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115007820574615380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/115007820574615380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-i-picked-up.html' title='Today I Picked Up...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-114999748800866506</id><published>2006-06-10T23:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-11T00:17:39.316-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I Thought Everything Was Bigger in Texas...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, apparently Texans are liars.  When walking today I saw a mini Eiffel Tower AND a mini Statue of Liberty:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/side.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/side.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/IMG_2425.0.jpg"&gt;          &lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/IMG_2425.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Also, I noticed they have "Drive Thru Beer" here...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/1600/IMG_2424.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6898/3147/320/IMG_2424.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-114999748800866506?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/114999748800866506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=114999748800866506' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/114999748800866506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/114999748800866506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-thought-everything-was-bigger-in.html' title='I Thought Everything Was Bigger in Texas...'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29525465.post-114996087225233486</id><published>2006-06-10T13:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-11T00:18:57.623-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm Starting a Blog.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Short, un-informative posts everyday from Austin.  You know you can't wait for them to start.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29525465-114996087225233486?l=kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/feeds/114996087225233486/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29525465&amp;postID=114996087225233486' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/114996087225233486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29525465/posts/default/114996087225233486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kartikonlaptop.blogspot.com/2006/06/im-starting-blog.html' title='I&apos;m Starting a Blog.'/><author><name>Kartik</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16707127407830110682</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06566414056642429694'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>