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	<title>Comments on: Heading to Odyssey of the Mind World Finals</title>
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		<title>By: geoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Holy crap!

I just saw that this entry was in 07. Hope you are still alive!</description>
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<p>I just saw that this entry was in 07. Hope you are still alive!</p>
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		<title>By: geoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I participated in odyssey of the mind in elementary school, and remember well the hours we spent crafting our skit, which was just a massive parody of then popular &quot;Family Ties&quot;. I still have schematics of our massive &quot;Skippy&quot;, a paper mache and chickenwire potato-esque contraption designed to interact with us. We placed third, I think, and our competition was strictly kids 3 or more years our senior.

Our balsa construct team took a devastating blow when the florida heat dissolved some of their binding in transit. I think the structure still bore 12 lbs. befor failing, though that may have only been 12 oz. Thank god I wasn&#039;t involved, since I am terrible at piece work and detail.

I also remember doing some weird parallel thinking exercises in some side room with a woman that smelled of leather and lemons. They would hand us scribbles or objects, and we had to identify 5 possible uses or possibilities for each. I think we won that one.

Thanks for the memories culled from your writing. Good stuff.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I participated in odyssey of the mind in elementary school, and remember well the hours we spent crafting our skit, which was just a massive parody of then popular &#8220;Family Ties&#8221;. I still have schematics of our massive &#8220;Skippy&#8221;, a paper mache and chickenwire potato-esque contraption designed to interact with us. We placed third, I think, and our competition was strictly kids 3 or more years our senior.</p>
<p>Our balsa construct team took a devastating blow when the florida heat dissolved some of their binding in transit. I think the structure still bore 12 lbs. befor failing, though that may have only been 12 oz. Thank god I wasn&#8217;t involved, since I am terrible at piece work and detail.</p>
<p>I also remember doing some weird parallel thinking exercises in some side room with a woman that smelled of leather and lemons. They would hand us scribbles or objects, and we had to identify 5 possible uses or possibilities for each. I think we won that one.</p>
<p>Thanks for the memories culled from your writing. Good stuff.</p>
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