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	<title>Mephistos &#187; Green</title>
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	<description>A medieval, agrarian, libertarian, green-living, alpha-geek&#039;s view on the world.</description>
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		<title>Torn: E-books vs. Paper Books</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/28/torn-e-books-vs-pape-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I have had this debate before, but I am still being torn between the idea of which is better - the traditional book, made of paper that is printed on, especially a hard back volume and the e-book reader version that I can get so handily on my Kindle device (or for that matter my iPad, laptop, or even desktop computer). I keep thinking back on all those wonderful years I have had with books, but similarly keep thinking about the pluses of the electronic edition and some of the greener ideas behind it as well. I was especially thinking of this today while watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy movies this afternoon, based upon probably my favorite books ever, by J.R.R. Tolkien.]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Saturday &#8211; November 26</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/15/small-business-saturday-november-26/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/15/small-business-saturday-november-26/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mephistos.com/?p=4499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as the promotional materials for the Small Business Saturday event say, first there was Black Friday and then there was Cyber Monday... For those not in the loop this is a promotion to try to push shopping, to some at least some extent, on Saturday after Thanksgiving with small businesses. It is even implied to do so with local small businesses, which is even better. It is a good idea and something I am very much in favor of doing myself.]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warming &amp; Science</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/04/global-warming-science/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/04/global-warming-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=4419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did anyone else notice the whimper that was heard coming out of the media the last few weeks in regards to the investigation into the science of the global warming? Did not figure you really did. Remember back a few years ago when a few scientist were questioning the theory and then someone suggested that some data had been falsified to further the support the theory? It got media play for weeks and even months, but when that is reputed by a study funded by the Koch brothers of all unbiased (or biased the other direction) people it gets no attention at all.]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic Back to Oil</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/03/plastic-back-to-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/11/03/plastic-back-to-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this article back around the  first of the year sometime that talked about a machine that could turn plastic bags into back into oil and was pretty excited about it.  I meant to write about it at the time, but I heard someone mention the process in passing at a ballgame of all places and thought I would go back to it.  After a little bit of searching I was finally able to come up with the original article about plastic bag back to crude oil machine and to save you a bit effort, here is the link - http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/15/6059428-machine-turns-plastic-bags-into-fuel.]]></description>
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		<title>Yellow Pages Waste</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2011/07/11/yellow-pages-waste/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2011/07/11/yellow-pages-waste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=4110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone else noticing that the more obsolete the phone book and consequently the yellow pages are becoming how many more different variations of that once major source of information come to your house? My guess is that the reality is not only are the becoming obsolete but a vast majority of them, like the ones that randomly show up my house sit unused or maybe go straight to recycling without ever having been opened. As a friend and I were discussing the other day, when was the last time you used one those archaic devices to find a service? Okay, I admit if you are from a certain older generation and have not adapted to the modern technology such as the internet or the latest smart phone maybe you are still using them. Then again, you are also not reading my blog in all probability.]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Buddy</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/20/gas-buddy/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/20/gas-buddy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure what you were thinking when you read that title, but if you are any of my siblings you are wrong. Gas Buddy (actual site is gasbuddy.com) is a pretty cool site that shows the gas prices in a particular area of most of the gas stations. It is updated in real-time by volunteers and generally for any area with decent populations stays pretty accurate. How exactly would you use the information? There are a couple of ways...]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Reserve Screws Mid-America Gas</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/06/federal-reserve-screws-mid-america-gas/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/06/federal-reserve-screws-mid-america-gas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone else noticing around a 10% jump in gasoline pricing this week? You can largely think the federal reserve banking system for that. Yeah, the same folks that were largely involved in the wall street bailout because several brokerage banks were too large to fail have screwed middle class America once again by causing what will likely end up being over $3.00 per gallon gasoline in the very near future. I am sure some of you are saying wait just a minute, what can the federal reserve do to effect gasoline pricing and wasn't there a refinery fire this past week as well?]]></description>
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		<title>Election Day Blues</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/01/election-day-blues/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2010/11/01/election-day-blues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting here the night before the election and really perplexed about who to actually support in the major elections tomorrow. There is a part of me that really just almost wants to sit it out this time through as I just can not really settle on any candidates in any of the races. Granted, part of the problem at the local level is having just moved here to Nicholasville in the summer and not having a good pulse of the local politics. At the level of going into the state house and especially Congress, I am really at a loss and wondering at the extreme ends all the candidates seem to be mostly taking. I suppose the one relief is the special interest groups and their advertising will be over and the crazy campaign signs will be coming down.
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		<title>Random October Observations</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/10/19/random-october-observations/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2010/10/19/random-october-observations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not had a good list of those little observations in a long while, partly because most things of late have been a longer post. However, I have come up with several shorter pieces of information to share over the last few days. They range from some comments on the Nobel Prize for Physics concerning the invention of a graphene to the tea party's hijacking by the likes of Glen Beck and a very personally disappointing Sarah Palin. Somewhere in between there will be some comments on about how I think Toyota got a raw deal from the government regarding the recall, but that really goes back to September. Mixed in there somewhere will be a little bit about the FreeCycle concept what I think is wrong with it working as well as it should.]]></description>
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		<title>Comments and Ethics</title>
		<link>http://mephistos.com/2010/10/10/comments-and-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://mephistos.com/2010/10/10/comments-and-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mephistos.com/?p=3051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am left with some kind of an ethical question that I seem to have a bit of issue resolving. I certainly know which I am leaning, but I invite readers to make a suggestion or comment on the matter. The question is one of comments made about a blog post, but not made here on the blog site. Instead, as so much of my promoting the blog site is done on various social networks including the likes of Twitter and especially Facebook, good comments are often left on those mediums instead of back here on the blog. That is, in itself perhaps not surprising. However, it derails the conversation here on the blog that some could be involved in that are otherwise not seeing those things on the secondary sites like the afore-mentioned Twitter and Facebook.]]></description>
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