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		<title>Leet Noobs dissertation defense videos are up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to upload and annotate them on YouTube, including the admin frontmatter stuff since I figure PhD students who are defending in the years to come can get a sense of the format of a defense. My slides are available in a previous post.]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/31/leet-noobs-dissertation-defense-videos-are-up/</link>
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		<title>Bike USA: Mark&#8217;s fast food firsts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dairy Queen, A and W, Arctic Circle (only a rootbeer float though), Texaco, Ampride, Amoco (and a whole slew of other gas station/convenience stores), Hardees (which is now owned by Carl&#8217;s Junior) Won&#8217;t eat that. Not yet.]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/30/bike-usa-marks-fast-food-firsts/</link>
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		<title>Bike USA: Memorable Quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It&#8217;s ridiculous to walk that far for a stupid animal.&#8217; &#8211; overheard in Yellowstone coming out the mouth of a middle-aged woman&#8230; what the hell was she doing in Yellowstone? It&#8217;s such an exhilarating feeling to bike through Yellowstone and show no fear for all the freaking motor homes as they pass. The culminating experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/30/bike-usa-memorable-quotes/</link>
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		<title>Bike USA: August 9-29, 2000 &#8211; Now what? Boston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Max&#8217;s stuff in black, Mark&#8217;s in brown. Now what? in Princeton with Ted and Bindiya So we rented a U Haul and high tailed it to Princeton. We both have some time to visit friends on the East Coast before going back to the west. My brother misses Robin and Ushki. I miss San Francisco [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/29/bike-usa-august-9-29-2000-now-what-boston/</link>
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		<title>Bike USA: August 9-29, 2000 &#8211; The Rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Max&#8217;s stuff in black, Mark&#8217;s in brown. The Rally August 20th from 10AM to 2PM we were supposed to bike around the D.C. Mall (monument and museum central of the U.S.). After that there was a party in Mt. Ranier until the wee hours of the night. Unfortunately, Allen&#8217;s house is much much farther than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/20/bike-usa-august-9-29-2000-the-rally/</link>
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		<title>Leet Noobs dissertation defense presentation slides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you want to check out the slides I&#8217;ll be using tomorrow: Leet Noobs: The final powerpoint slides and Leet Noobs: The print version (which gets rid of the extraneous slides that allow for faux animation) I&#8217;ll be recording the presentation to be uploaded later and a version with my voice will be uploaded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/19/leet-noobs-dissertation-defense-presentation-slides/</link>
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		<title>Bike USA: August 9-29, 2000 &#8211; The final stretch &#8211; Cumberland, DC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Max&#8217;s stuff in black, Mark&#8217;s in brown. The Final Stretch It was very warm. ATA trail Movie of the C &#38; O Canal Towpath From Pittsburgh we took the YRT, the Allegheny Highlands Trail, and the C &#38; O Towpath all the way in to the greater D.C. area. Blammo, back in rural country. Specifically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/19/bike-usa-august-9-29-2000-the-final-stretch-cumberland-dc/</link>
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		<title>Dissertation defense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m defending my dissertation this Friday and hopefully turning it all in to the graduate school on September 2 (so that some meaningful significance is added to my birthday)! Then I&#8217;ll be in a panel for PAX!]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/17/dissertation-defense/</link>
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		<title>MMOG Farmer: A Facebook game concept</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a game design class I&#8217;m taking this summer, we got into groups and are designing a Facebook game. We decided early on to use an idea I had (inspired by Cow Clicker) about spoofing the farming in MMOGs since many FB games are pretty much repetitive farming, too. Each of us were then to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/17/mmog-farmer-a-facebook-game-concept/</link>
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		<title>Bike USA: August 9-29, 2000 &#8211; Into Pittsburgh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Max&#8217;s stuff in black, Mark&#8217;s in brown. Into Pittsburgh I started to feel the weirdness in Chicago, but it didn&#8217;t REALLY hit me until going to the Metropol nightclub in Pittsburgh. To see scantily clad young professionals mixing with frat boys and goths brought me quickly back to the urban nightlife we&#8217;ve been lacking this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://markdangerchen.net/2010/08/15/bike-usa-august-9-29-2000-into-pittsburgh/</link>
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