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	<description>Blog and homepage of Alex Chao.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tick Tock</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/08/29/tick-tock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my last post for a while.  I truly hate what my blog looks like right now, so I can barely stand to be its primary, contributing author.  In my next re-design of simonlife, I hope to come up with something more personalized and simple.
Lately, I&#8217;ve been splitting my time among tennis, bboying, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Is Troublesome</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/06/28/writing-is-troublesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What I hate about writing is having to negotiate an appropriate tone of voice.  I think it&#8217;s appealing to write in such a way that someone who knows you personally could read your words and realistically imagine you speaking them out loud, without the delivery having to sound unnatural or forced.  Unfortunately, it is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nifty and Neat</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/06/18/nifty-and-neat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few things that fancied my interest this week:
XKCD comic #438.  This particular strip illustrates everything that I think is wrong with how people behave on the Web.  The comic is very reminiscent of a more general psychological problem that occurs when people assume a pattern of decreased &#8220;social integrity&#8221; when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Chou&#8217;s Secret</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/05/25/jay-chous-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/05/25/jay-chous-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 02:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After returning home from an awkward evening out in Collegetown the night before commencement, a few friends and I opted to further delay the coming of the following day&#8217;s festivities with a movie.  Out of my roommate Chris&#8217;s collection of films, I selected Jay Chou&#8217;s Secret with the intention of challenging my unjustified doubts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day Malfeasance</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/05/11/mothers-day-malfeasance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/05/11/mothers-day-malfeasance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every year as an undergraduate I remembered to recognize Mother&#8217;s Day by at least affording the necessary phone call.  It would only make sense then that the year I would forget would be my year as a masters student, a time when one would expect me to be in my highest degree of maturity and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hype Punk Pop</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/04/22/hype-punk-pop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My Slope Day recommendations.  The object of your disregard and ridicule.

Eve 6 (circa 2000)
All-American Rejects
Hoobastank (circa 2004)
Paramore

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		<title>How to Make Good Curry</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/04/07/how-to-make-good-curry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/04/07/how-to-make-good-curry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nonsense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coconut milk.
The end.
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		<title>O, Belle Michelle</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/02/27/o-belle-michelle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/02/27/o-belle-michelle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to fulfill a bargain negotiated between myself and a close friend, I am tasked with producing a list of my top ten favorite songs.  Quel burden, yes?  Perhaps, but so far, I am at least sure that Michelle Branch will make a conspicuous appearance on this list.
Who among us remembers when, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Soviet Composer, Dmitri Kabalevsky</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/02/05/on-the-soviet-composer-dmitri-kabalevsky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/02/05/on-the-soviet-composer-dmitri-kabalevsky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As wikipedia&#8217;s article on the man states:
In general, Kabalevsky was not as adventurous as his contemporaries in terms of harmony and preferred a more conventional diatonicism, interlaced with chromaticism and major-minor interplay.
Music to my ears.
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		<title>The Dies Irae in World of Warcraft</title>
		<link>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/01/11/the-dies-irae-in-world-of-warcraft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.simonlife.com/2008/01/11/the-dies-irae-in-world-of-warcraft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently reactivated my World of Warcraft account for a month&#8217;s time in part because I wanted to re-live my former days as a healer (I play a Tauren shaman on the Kil&#8217;Jaeden realm), but also because I wanted to see the new level 60-to-70 content that was added in the Burning Crusade expansion.  [...]]]></description>
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