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	<title>Rodney On Earth</title>
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		<title>A Funny Story (^_^)  第四章，再次 (Chapter Four, Again)</title>
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我开始学习中文。我几年前开始，但我没有通过第四章。我开始一章一，认真研究，第四章。然后我停止，因为我觉得无聊。一两个月后，我开始学习中文了，但我觉得我忘记了我已经学到，所以我从第一章开始了。到时候我到第四章，我感到厌烦了。这种模式重复一遍又一遍。 5年之后，我没有通过第4。史诗失败。
这一次不一样！我将通过第四章！
我只知道吴语拼音，我将集中于中文写作这个时候。请祝我好运！我希望你能理解我的中文。
再见
Dì sì zhāng, zàicì.
Wǒ kāishǐ xuéxí zhōngwén. Wǒ jǐ nián qián  kāishǐ, dàn wǒ méiyǒu tōngguò dì sì zhāng. Wǒ kāishǐ yīzhāng yī, rènzhēn  yánjiū, dì sì zhāng. Ránhòu wǒ tíngzhǐ, yīnwèi wǒ jué dé wúliáo. Yī  liǎng gè yuè hòu, wǒ kāishǐ xuéxí zhōngwén le, dàn wǒ juéde wǒ wàngjì [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=419</link>
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		<title>I Remember Holding You &#8230;</title>
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I had the weirdest dream last night.  I was Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2 about to sing karaoke in a Hong Kong nightclub.  So strange as I *hate* karaoke (well, I hate to sing, but I love to cheer on and watch others perform).  I&#8217;m too shy for performing Karaoke. (# ^_^ #)
What would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=394</link>
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		<title>How To Read My Starbucks Cup</title>
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Thank God it&#8217;s Friday!  I love Starbucks drinks, especially their Mocha Frappuccinos, but I always get a special drink of my own creation on Fridays. 
The picture is my Starbucks cup, along with that cryptic, Starbucknese shorthand the counter people always use.  Can you guess what my drink is?
I&#8217;ll tell the answer after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=388</link>
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		<title>Procrastinating Getting Things Done</title>
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I have purchased two books about how to stop procrastination &#038; how to use the &#8220;Getting Things Done&#8221; task management methodology, but I keep putting off reading them.  Epic Fail.  *_*
&#8220;The Procrastinator&#8217;s Guide to Getting Things Done&#8221; by Monica Ramirez Basco, PhD
&#8220;Getting Thing Done&#8221; by David Allen
(this book has a bible-like status for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=363</link>
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		<title>The Closet Chef</title>
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I&#8217;m trying to lose some of my baby whale blubber, so I&#8217;m cooking at home more and more. Luckily, I like to cook (or at least try to cook). 
Tonight&#8217;s dinner: Sichuan spicy beef with string beans, red peppers and onions. 
Cheers!
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Posted from my iPhone 
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		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=354</link>
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		<title>Writing Japanese Haiku, in Japanese</title>
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ぼけはなや     さかりをせんぼつ     はやいふゆ
 &#8211; Rodney Johnson
I love Japanese haiku poetry.  I&#8217;ve decided to start writing them in Japanese.  The hard part for writing in Japanese, while thinking in English words, is the Japanese on (special way how syllables are counted in Japanese words) does not always translate to English syllable counts.  In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=342</link>
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		<title>My Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cups Addiction!</title>
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I&#8217;m just out of a long, but productive, meeting. I should be scheduling a meeting with my coworker to get info from her about a database, before she leaves this week on 3 months maternity leave, but what do I do?  I rip open my bag of Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cups!  
I love [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=336</link>
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		<title>10 Things About Rodney You Didn&#8217;t Know</title>
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I get a lot of email, usually asking this or that question.  But I&#8217;ve found the most common emails ask for facts no one knows about me.  Also, I strangely get emails about my inability to eat hotdogs if the buns face the wrong way.  Anyway, I decided to tell 10 more things about myself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=318</link>
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		<title>iDidn&#8217;t Know!</title>
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I took off the screen protector, held my breath and pressed a fat, oily-from-hand-lotion finger on the naked screen and&#8230;
OK, I&#8217;ll start from the beginning.
I&#8217;ve been rocking an iPhone for about 5 weeks. Like a good newbie owner, I got  a protective case and screen protector for it.
I hate screen protectors because they show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=260</link>
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		<title>Starbucks Adventure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi,
Last week a co-worker approached me in the break room, and proceeded to introduce herself, as well as tell me lots of her life story, while I waited at the change machine to slowly give me change for $5 bucks.  I ran into her again this morning by chance at a Starbucks.  Here’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rodneyonearth.com/?p=235</link>
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