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		<title>(500) Miles of Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this afternoon&#8217;s eight miler around the neighborhood, I&#8217;ve passed five hundred(!) bicycling miles this summer (which I&#8217;m measuring from roughly Memorial Day), just in time for &#8220;summer&#8221; to come to an end for Labor Day. To celebrate, please have Zooey bathed and brought to my tent. &#60;smirk&#62; Really, though, to celebrate, I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2167</link>
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		<title>friday random ten: &#8220;batten down&#8221; edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just sitting here 110 miles from the beach, hoping the hurricane turns east so I don&#8217;t have to deal with it, because we all know how much fun that was last time. &#8220;In Step&#8221; &#8211; Girl Talk &#8220;Any Way You Want It&#8221; &#8211; Glee cast &#8220;Heavy Metal&#8221; &#8211; Clap Your Hands Say Yeah &#8220;Crossfire&#8221; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2164</link>
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		<title>Seduction of the Innocent, 21st century style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Because the most horrific consequence imaginable of underfunded public education would be that kids start reading comic books. I&#8217;m really tired of people perpetuating insulting myths about my hobbies, especially when those people are Democratic political candidates like Nancy King (running for the MD state senate), whose positions I tend to agree with, especially on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2161</link>
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		<title>friday random ten: &#8220;documentation saves lives&#8221; edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the greatest week for me, even if it was a short one. Lots of work-related frustrations, which, to be fair, are totally expected in the early weeks of a project&#8217;s testing phase, but are, nonetheless frustrating. Otherwise, the weather was a bit cooler, and it made my bike rides very pleasant. Family camping this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2157</link>
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		<title>&#8220;and the dragon played the bass&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kind of funny how synergy works. Just the other week I was musing about &#8220;princesses&#8221; and the problems they can present, and now, the always reliable JoCo releases a new song addressing the same general topic. The words of Coulton himself: I wrote a song called “The Princess Who Saved Herself” because my daughter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2150</link>
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		<title>redundancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[disempowered and ill-applied. skills lie fallow, time and effort squandered. quests charged already entrusted elsewhere. initiative quashed, despondence formented. what is worst is that no one notices.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2146</link>
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		<title>thirty-six</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, now officially more than half-way through my thirties, such as it is. As usual, I don&#8217;t feel particularly different. Sure, from a purely physical standpoint, there are a few pounds less of me than there were last year (and that&#8217;s generally a good thing), but otherwise, nothing significant. Thirty-six, besides being a prime number*, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2139</link>
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		<title>friday random ten: &#8220;running in the new SatNav&#8221; edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re picking up and getting out of town for a couple of days to run out the last of the summer, so don&#8217;t bother looking for us. In the meantime, here&#8217;s some music: &#8220;Big Bad World One (live)&#8221; &#8211; Jonathan Coulton &#8220;Downtown&#8221; &#8211; Tegan &#038; Sara &#8220;Lover&#8221; &#8211; Les Paul &#038; Mary Ford &#8220;Better&#8221; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2136</link>
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		<title>obstacles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, nature throws little obstacles in your path that totally throw off your rhythm: This is what I encountered about 3 miles into my trail ride yesterday afternoon (and then again about 8 miles in, because it&#8217;s a five mile loop)&#8230;a very large tree fallen over the path, pretty much right after a blind turn. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2134</link>
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		<title>Happy 19th Amendment Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chuck-parker.net/?p=2130</link>
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