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	<title>Protension: the online journal of Tom Elgin &#187; Friends</title>
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		<title>Restaurant Guide to Park City, UT &#8211; by Casey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t live in Park City anymore, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not the best ski or mountain vacation in the world. When I moved there I was struck by the lack of a good local guide to nightlife and restaurants (sorry, Park Record/Flipside, you suck). I dabbled with making one but decided to spend [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.skitownrestaurants.com"><img src="http://www.skitownrestaurants.com/images/logo.jpg" class="alignright" alt="Ski Town Restaurants - Park City restaurant dining guide"/></a></p>

<p>I don&#8217;t live in Park City anymore, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not the best ski or mountain vacation in the world.  When I moved there I was struck by the lack of a good local guide to nightlife and restaurants (sorry, Park Record/Flipside, you suck).  I dabbled with making one but decided to spend my time at work instead.</p>

<p>Fortunately, my friend Casey Sowul has come to the rescue and put together a professional-quality guide to restaurants, bars, nightlife, and everything worth doing in your favorite mountain town in Utah (that&#8217;s Park City).  All it needs is a few 5-star reviews of Bistro Bar and I&#8217;ll have nothing more to tell visitors.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.skitownrestaurants.com">Ski Town Restaurants &#8211; Park City restaurant dining guide. Reviews, photos, menus, coupons, specials, maps for the best restaurants in Park City</a></p>
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		<title>Paradise for Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Home of the Week in the LA Times this week is my aunt Mary Jane Elgin&#8217;s house. It&#8217;s as beautiful as it looks in the paper. Ever since I can remember, her house has been my paradise-home-away-from-home. I&#8217;ll miss it as much as everyone who has shared its (and my aunt and uncle&#8217;s) hospitality. [...]]]></description>
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The Home of the Week in the LA Times this week is <a href="http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/la-re-home6-2008jul06,0,6282446.story">my aunt Mary Jane Elgin&#8217;s house</a>.  It&#8217;s as beautiful as <a href="http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/la-re-home6-2008jul06-pg,0,2054742.photogallery">it looks</a> in the paper.  Ever since I can remember, her house has been my paradise-home-away-from-home.  I&#8217;ll miss it as much as everyone who has shared its (and my aunt and uncle&#8217;s) hospitality.  If you have a few million dollars or very good credit, I highly recommend buying it.</p>

<p>Thanks <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=13301354">Jeff Fortner</a> for the heads up.</p>
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		<title>Tom&#8217;s Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at this website and other people&#8217;s blogs has led me to an obvious conclusion: Blogs are only worth reading when the writer is in the midst of some kind of exciting adventure, has specific experience or knowledge that you&#8217;re interested in learning from, or is your son. I have been doing ostensibly the same [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking at this website and other people&#8217;s blogs has led me to an obvious conclusion:</p>

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  <p>Blogs are only worth reading when the writer is in the midst of some kind of <a href="http://coldphoto.blogspot.com">exciting adventure</a>, has <a href="http://www.ventureblog.com/">specific experience or knowledge</a> that you&#8217;re interested in learning from, or is <a href="http://www.tomspot.com">your son</a>.</p>
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<p>I have been doing ostensibly the same thing in the same place for 7 months now, which is peanuts to the &#8220;adults&#8221; out there but for me it&#8217;s the longest I&#8217;ve ever stuck with one thing (counting school one semester at a time, and anyway my longest continuous stint there was 4 semesters and I switched majors in the middle of that).  I don&#8217;t count working at a startup as a blog-worthy exciting adventure because it doesn&#8217;t involve many pretty pictures.  I&#8217;m not yet an expert in anything notable.  I am somebody&#8217;s son, but that has limited appeal.</p>

<p>Since my life is now an incredible bore (unblogworthy) I&#8217;ve decided I should blog about more interesting subjects: other people.</p>

<p>Look for the first in this series the next time I have free time =)</p>
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