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	<title>Chris J. Karr: Weblog &#187; Personal</title>
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		<title>One year in&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard for me to believe, but I've been flying solo with Audacious Software for over a year now. In short, business is going well and the last year has been a tremendous learning experience. Given that the last blog entry is quite stale and is no longer representative of my state of affairs, I figured that an update was in order.]]></description>
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		<title>One month into my new life</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/07/one-month-into-my-new-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After several months of doing the simultaneous graduate school / setting up a company thing, I've finally finished my first month of complete independence an an entrepreneur / IT consultant. This post is a progress reports of sort.

First of all, my overall morale is quite strong and I don't have any regrets about the path that I've chosen. Until very recently, I had to deal with the conundrum of knowing the kind of life that I want to lead was not achievable with my (then) life trajectories. For probably the first time in my life, I can now see that it's possible to achieve the kind of life that I want from the position that I currently occupy. The path is not without its bends, forks, and danger lurking in the bushes, but I do know that there is a way from here to my ultimate destination.
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		<title>The &#8220;Comics for Calories&#8221; workout plan</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/04/the-comics-for-calories-workout-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comic Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exercise]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm currently visiting my wife's family in Cedar Rapids, and being away from the city has been extremely helpful in letting me take a step back from routine life and look for opportunities to do things better.

Earlier this year, I reactivated my gym membership under the theory that given my situation, exercise would be a good stress-relief tool and I could use the extra exercise regular workouts provide. However, as life got busy, my attendance dropped considerably.

On an unrelated note, I've also found myself treading water when it comes to expanding my X-Men collection. The last older issue that I purchased was in last November, where I picked up a significantly older issue than any I had in order to establish a new "hole" in my collection. (Holes drive OCD's like myself nuts.) The idea was that rather than just pick up the latest issues, I'd begin work filling the gap in my collection and work towards the lifetime goal of a full run of the original X-Men series (started in 1963).

Like my exercise, my comic book collecting was pushed to the back burner as I worked to get <a href="http://www.audacious-software.com">Audacious Software</a> up and running. Making a run to <a href="http://www.grahamcrackers.com/">Graham Cracker Comics</a> was something that became hard to justify when I needed to push out another software release or tweak the performance of another web site. However, the Wednesday comic book run was a nice weekly ritual that I want to resume.

So, in the spirit of getting better exercise and getting back to doing something I love, I'd like to present the "Comics for Calories" workout plan.]]></description>
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		<title>My Cave</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/02/my-cave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a believer in <a href="http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2006/07/10/a_nerd_in_a_cave.html">the need for nerd caves</a>, so I took a couple of pictures of my own using my iPhone:

<center><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/audaciouscode/3305274752/" title="The Office: Bookshelves &#38; Test Rig by audaciouscode, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3450/3305274752_26461deb93_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Office: Bookshelves &#38; Test Rig" border="1" /></a>&#160;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/audaciouscode/3305274832/" title="The Office: Workstations by audaciouscode, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3612/3305274832_aaf6f4d378_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="The Office: Workstations" border="1" /></a></center>

I've been renting space from <a href="http://www.thehousetheatre.com">The House Theatre of Chicago</a> for a couple of months now, and I've managed to create a nice space where Stuff Gets Done.
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		<title>A followup to the post on leaving graduate school.</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/02/a-followup-to-the-post-on-leaving-graduate-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to do a quick follow-up on <a href="http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/02/a-list-of-things-describing-why-im-jumping-from-graduate-school-to-a-startup/">the post where I listed all the reasons that I was leaving graduate school</a>. I think that a couple of clarifications and elaborations are necessary lest I leave readers with a wrong or incomplete impression.

In the spirit of list-making, here's another.]]></description>
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		<title>A typical Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/02/a-typical-thursday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since making the fork onto the startup road, I've been trying to balance two lives as I work to build my new company into something financially sustainable while winding down my graduate school career over the next couple of months. Today's as typical day as any, so here's a snapshot representing what I do most days of the week.]]></description>
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		<title>The list of things describing why I&#8217;m leaving graduate school to found a startup.</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/02/a-list-of-things-describing-why-im-jumping-from-graduate-school-to-a-startup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/02/a-list-of-things-describing-why-im-jumping-from-graduate-school-to-a-startup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally decided to <a href="http://twitter.com/cjkarr/status/1217361150">not write this post</a> as each attempt became a longwinded dissertation on things that no one other than me cares about, but since <a href="https://twitter.com/rickybuchanan/status/1220949750">someone apparently does care</a>, I figured that this would be a good opportunity to document this point in my life.

In order to satisfy the curious, here are my reasons for leaving graduate school to found a startup.
]]></description>
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		<title>Allow me to reintroduce myself.</title>
		<link>http://www.aetherial.net/weblog/2009/02/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been quite a while since I last blogged in any serious sense. This post is my attempt to explain what's been happening over the past three years, where I'm at now, and where I'm headed over the next couple of years.]]></description>
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