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3rd Grade Learning

March 22, 2006

In 3rd grade we where learning about color and one day while learning about how black is the combination of all color I made a drawing of outer space and used the black [without using the black crayon] to be "nothing" so the idea of black on paper being "everything" was confusing to me. I remember saying something along the lines of "It's what blind people see... black." And my teacher responded "How do you know?" so I told him "because when I close my eyes all I see is black." but he wasn't buying it. I forget exactly what he said but it was along the lines of "You can't know that *that* is what blind people see" and so on and his responce made me very frustrated.

I've since realized what my teacher was saying. The basis of his argument was that you can't say "Blind people see black" because you have already determined that they cannot see by using the label "blind".

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Subversion made me do it

March 19, 2006

After several days of trying and trying to get subversion installed on my Mac I had to take a break to help a little guy with his Pinewood Derby Car. While shopping for supplies with him I found these stencils at the hardware store. Late that night after googling every line needed for the terminal to get svn not only up and running but also running as a server I had to go make something affected by gravity. Having some left over paint from his car and the stencils at 2am was a good mix.

Update: I got svn and svnserve up and running. and even though no one place had all the answers based on my current set up and config, I was able to finally get it working and I've posted the steps taken on my wiki

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Phone sketch while waiting

March 13, 2006

A quick little doodle I made on my phone while waiting for a meeting.

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