<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598389937774068921</id><updated>2011-07-07T15:35:15.966-07:00</updated><category term='office'/><category term='work'/><category term='intellectual property'/><title type='text'>The Vortex of Despair</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vortexofdespair.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4598389937774068921/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vortexofdespair.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>talikhar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07624374043381657420</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SYvyRIeZxQA/SqHgYVR7KSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/eIBHKjar4CE/S220/fotobest6.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598389937774068921.post-5559493611557294415</id><published>2009-09-04T19:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T20:37:56.736-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='work'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='office'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intellectual property'/><title type='text'>Vortex of Despair, take one...And Action!</title><content type='html'>Gee, that blog title super sucks.  I swear  to you my name isn't &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;Cornyelius&lt;/span&gt; and I don't eat corny-&lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"&gt;ish&lt;/span&gt; hens either but cut me some slack; this is my first blog on this site. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main reason I decided to do this is to document some of these weird, funny and somewhat bizarre thoughts, ideas and funny and or disgusting idiocies that populate my brain which often see the light of day, but seldom get recorded for &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;posterity&lt;/span&gt;.  Point in case, when somebody asks where I work I just answer The Vortex of Despair.  I started to use the phrase often since 2006.  Recently it has been revealed to me that it has become quite popular after I shared it with somebody who found it so hilarious that this individual felt compelled to use it as well, in a "setting" where dozens of individuals actually loved the phrase so much that they decided to put pen to paper.  Of course, such words, at one time of another would have joined together somewhere in time and probably there might be one or two &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;death metal&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;Goth&lt;/span&gt; rock bands somewhere in &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;Sweden&lt;/span&gt; with such name, but I want to go on record "This is my baby, and I want no Dingo eating this particular baby." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, there is a very specific reason why "Vortex of Despair" came to be, where the inspiration came from when baby Vortex first saw the light of day and luckily also there  has been more than one dated email with such phrase on it, so hopefully this blog will be like &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;intellectual&lt;/span&gt; property pee, and mark my territory. So arrivederci for now, goodbye and adios my friends and strangers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talikhar&lt;br /&gt;(Self professed stalker and Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs frustrated artist)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4598389937774068921-5559493611557294415?l=vortexofdespair.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vortexofdespair.blogspot.com/feeds/5559493611557294415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://vortexofdespair.blogspot.com/2009/09/vortex-of-despair-take-oneand-action.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4598389937774068921/posts/default/5559493611557294415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4598389937774068921/posts/default/5559493611557294415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vortexofdespair.blogspot.com/2009/09/vortex-of-despair-take-oneand-action.html' title='Vortex of Despair, take one...And Action!'/><author><name>talikhar</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07624374043381657420</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SYvyRIeZxQA/SqHgYVR7KSI/AAAAAAAAAAM/eIBHKjar4CE/S220/fotobest6.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
