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		<title>Dinner at Baume&#8217;, Palo Alto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a delightful 4 ½ hour(!) dinner last week with Isaac Garcia, friend, interesting guy, CEO &#38; Entrepreneur at Baume&#8217; in Palo Alto. I  have wanted to go to elBulli in Barcelona, Spain, for ages, but it&#8217;s had to get into, even more expensive than Baume&#8217;, and a long flight. Baume&#8217; is more convenient thus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2011/02/14/dinner-at-baume-palo-alto/</link>
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		<title>“I am impossibly, wonderfully alive.”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Kittinger, 1959, after falling 60,000 feet in a training parachute fall for his record setting 102,800 ft jump in 1960. “I am impossibly, wonderfully alive.”]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2010/03/15/%e2%80%9ci-am-impossibly-wonderfully-alive-%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Great 1976 article on Walter Browne, Chess, Poker, and Backgammon master</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The article came out when he was 27 and the conclusion is brilliant and shows oh, the energy and optimism of youth &#8220;I&#8217;m going to cultivate my own school of learning. I could be another Leonardo da Vinci. I want to do everything. I&#8217;m reading a lot now. Books like The Rise and Fall of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2010/01/20/great-1976-article-on-walter-browne-chess-poker-and-backgammon-master/</link>
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		<title>“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” the girl replied.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pixar grants girl’s dying wish with home viewing of &#8216;Up&#8217; &#124; pixar, up, movie, home, show, girl, cancer, die, huntington, beach &#8211; Entertainment &#8211; OCRegister.com. This is touching and heartwrenching I remember another story in the news 5 or so years ago about a girl who had some serious disease and she was going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2009/06/19/%e2%80%9ci%e2%80%99m-ready-to-die-but-i%e2%80%99m-going-to-wait-for-the-movie%e2%80%9d-the-girl-replied/</link>
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		<title>Well &#8211; Better Running Through Walking &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Depending on one’s fitness level, a walk-break runner might run for a minute and walk for a minute, whether on a 5-mile training run or the 26.2-mile course on race day. A more experienced runner might incorporate a one-minute walk break for every mile of running via Well &#8211; Better Running Through Walking &#8211; NYTimes.com.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2009/06/03/well-better-running-through-walking-nytimescom/</link>
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		<title>How SQLite Is Tested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How SQLite Is Tested. Nice well written article. Section 9 is especially interesting: Our experience, then, is that static analysis is counter-productive to quality. In other words, focusing on static analysis (being concerned with compiler warnings) actually reduces the quality of the code. Nevertheless, we developers have capitulated to pressure from users and actively work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2009/05/29/how-sqlite-is-tested/</link>
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		<title>China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Insider: "...when the United States catches cold, China gets pneumonia..."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2009/04/26/china/</link>
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		<title>That was Zen, this is Freud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great NYTimes article on a long time Zen Buddhist monk who undergoes psychotherapy: Enlightenment Therapy.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2009/04/26/that-was-zen-this-is-freud/</link>
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		<title>13,000 year old caveman tools found in Boulder, CO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2009/02/27/13000-year-old-caveman-tools-found-in-boulder-co/</link>
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		<title>Python&#8217;s multiprocessing module is the new hottness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new multiprocessing module in Python 2.6 and 3.0 looks pretty cool. It gets around the whole, um, design for low performance where the dreaded Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) makes multithreading difficult, by making it easy to spawn python subprocesses, communicate with them, and share data. They even have a form of security on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chencer.com/dave/blog/2008/12/05/pythons-multiprocessing-module-is-the-new-hottness/</link>
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