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	<title>Chrass Landing</title>
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	<description>Cooler than dinosaurs.</description>
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		<title>Rescue 911</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I could hear the fire truck sirens in the distance slowly getting louder and I wished that they&#8217;d hurry up.  I was helping to balance the incoherent old man next to his car in the middle of the road and was he&#8230;? Yes, he was beginning to take off his pants.  This was beginning to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=358</link>
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		<title>Parking lot, lost.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was on a pub crawl with my friend Steve tonight.
Eventually we would up at the Fun House which is, as those of you who&#8217;ve read this shit before would know, an extremely punk rock bar.
I talked the bouncer into giving us a half-price cover (since I was wearing a dress shirt, I think the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=351</link>
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		<title>Unplanned swim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another weekend, another regatta.  This time, the Sloop Tavern Yacht Club&#8217;s Fall Regatta (the STYC has the distinction of being the only land-locked yacht club I know of).
For a change the wind was strong and only got stronger as the day went on.
Our second race was most notable to me.  By now the wind was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=341</link>
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		<title>Sailing is Too Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I participated in my first regatta on Saturday after nearly a week of training.  Before I started I had never set foot on a sailboat before and knew nothing about the subject.  Now I know slightly more.
I have learned many important things about sailboats:

The terminology is bewildering.  For example, a rope is never called a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=334</link>
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		<title>Bye Bye Birdie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Part 2: Sitting Pigeon-Toed at a Diamond Commode]
Hindenburg will never fly again.  His wing never healed correctly (or even remotely at a normal angle).  He did eventually calm down and is less freaked out about being around me.
I found myself in a quandary: I went through all the effort, and Hindenburg went through all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=328</link>
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		<title>One Drink at a Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting at a bar last night and a guy came up beside me and ordered two Tanqueray shots.  I&#8217;ve never really seen any other than myself order Tanqueray so I paid attention.
The man ordering was short, black, and in pretty good shape.  But most notably was the tattoo on his forearm that said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=326</link>
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		<title>Sitting Pigeon-Toed at a Diamond Commode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Part 1: Bird in Hand]
Yesterday morning I checked in on Hindenburg and saw that he had halfway pulled off his bandage and his wing was now held at an unnatural angle.
I felt bad about subjecting him to more stress, but I figured a whole bunch of stress is better than being dead so I re-wrapped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=318</link>
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		<title>Bird in Hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was working on my motorcycle in front of my house today when I heard a loud crash.  I looked up and saw a pigeon flopping around on the sidewalk.  It&#8217;s wing was obviously broken.
&#8220;Shit! Now I have to kill the thing,&#8221; I thought to myself.
I do my best to keep the number of small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=309</link>
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		<title>Mardi Gras 2009</title>
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		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=301</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Paying For Your Own Slavery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a reason that the US (and the rest of the world) is experiencing an economic crisis right now, but most people fail to understand what&#8217;s causing it.  The problem isn&#8217;t caused by inflation, unemployment, trade deficits, low taxes, or the &#8220;business cycle&#8221; &#8211;these are all symptoms, not causes.
The problem is caused by money, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Finally! A Robot That Can Annoy the Sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I built another clock recently.  This time I decided to go with an orrery that uses a laser pointer to track the location of the sun in three dimensions.  The idea is that if the clock knows three things (time, location, and north) it can figure out where the sun should be and point a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=282</link>
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		<title>Poker Your Eyes Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
There will be a bounty awarded to whoever takes out the winner of the last tournament.  (This happens to be me).
The usual house rules apply:

No string raises.
No rabbit hunting.
Don’t splash the pot.
Cards and chips must stay visible.
Players away from the table automatically post/check/fold.
Bets and raises that are not all-in must be at least as much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=279</link>
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		<title>Miracle Fruit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, I told Capi that I had an awesome activity for us to do but we first needed to go to the grocery store to get some related things.  I refused to tell her what I had in mind.
As I picked up items she tried to guess what my plan was:
I grabbed a lemon, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=277</link>
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		<title>Awesome lunch, except&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just had some delicious pho for lunch.  It would have been a perfect meal except that some mother and her kid were sitting at a table next to us.  The kid was playing with a Game Boy set a full volume.  Everyone in the restaurant could hear it.
I didn&#8217;t want to be a jerk in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=276</link>
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		<title>Crater Lake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent four days last week riding through southern Oregon.  My goal was to ride the twistiest roads I could find.
The first day was spent just getting to the appropriate area.  The closest town was Canyonville, OR.  There happens to be a casino there and I decided to play some roulette.  Fortune was smiling upon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrass.com/?p=265</link>
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