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		<title>This is the Day of Renewal: The Winter Solstice.</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/12/21/this-is-the-day-of-renewal-the-winter-solstice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Solstice! The days are getting longer!]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Fear and Seeing the True Universe for the Very the First Time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I wrote my final for that class. At the end of the 3 hour exam, which I managed to complete before the required time period was up, I got my list of overall marks from the professor. I was elated with joy when she said that my final mark may hinge between a B or an A, depending on the outcome of my final exam. I remembered how hard the mid-term was. I squeaked in a borderline B+/A- in the mid-term, after putting a lot of hours repetitiously memorising the 150 pages of texts for that exam. The big blow to the chest was that the final exam was accumulative, meaning that it covered everything from day one till the final moment of the last class.I had to work harder for it!]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, It&#8217;s the Big Day: Halloween Is Here!</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/10/31/yes-its-the-big-day-halloween-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's going to be a great night for the night of the dead, and all those kiddies, and big kids too, dressed up in costumes who are going to go out on the annual candy feast, the dead better watch out! And don't let me forget that for the older kids, this is the night when the trick is worth more than the the treat. heh heh heh. The night will be almost perfect. Halloween this year is on a Saturday, so staying up late, parting with no regrets, is almost a certainty.  Also, the moon phase will be almost full, at 95 percent waxing gibbous, at 13 days old. The temperature for tonight in the Fraser Valley will be up to  a warm 12C, which is quite comfortable when wearing a heavy costume.]]></description>
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		<title>The All Powerful Sun: What is in Time?</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/09/27/the-all-powerful-sun-what-is-in-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are doing a really nifty lab experiment in physics this week. We are asked to find out how far off we are from the start of our time-zone, and to calculate this by using basic mathematical formulas by only using the sun and some basic tools. We are asked to use a nail, paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half and Half With Happy Neighbours</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/09/21/half-and-half-with-happy-neighbours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, tomorrow is the Equinox, or the final day of summer and the first day of Autumn, around 2:18pm, September 22, 2009. Normally it falls on the 21 of September, but this year it is a day late. Well, really it is not late, that is the way our calendar works. Our calendar has a lot of bugs in it, so keeping events on track and uniformed is unfortunately impossible to do with it.]]></description>
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		<title>A Round and A Round, I Hate Things That Spin</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/09/20/a-round-and-a-round-i-hate-things-that-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is funny. I have to do this assignment  in my science class where we must take sky observations of the stars and draw them onto a piece of paper. This has several problems. I finally gave up and went back inside, and will probably guess the rest the observation part.]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Physics Science Class Data: ASTR3110</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/09/19/physics-science-class-data-astr3110/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Solstice Celebrations</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/06/21/the-solstice-celebrations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first day of summer is just another blip on the calender, like the religious holidays, these events go by hardly unnoticed, unless the stores are heavily marketing them. Fortunately the marketers haven't commercialized this summer Solstice event, and for the most part they have kept quiet for this astrological significance.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Summer Time!</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/06/21/happy-summer-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, finally, it is Summer! As of (proximately) 10:00am this morning, the Sun will have reached its maximum point in the sky for the Northern Hemisphere, and from now, on till Winter, the days will gradually get shorter. But in the mean time, we have four months of Summer! Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>The 22 Degree Halo</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/05/17/the-22-degree-halo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 22:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was outside with the camera I thought I would take some other photos of various objects while there was super good light. I thought I would try some micro photography with a wide angle lens and how far I could push its boundaries. Sticking a lens less than 2 cm away from the subject was very interesting because even though the camera was telling me that the object was out of focus and the motion sensor was off the scale, the image turned out not to badly anyway.]]></description>
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