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Where's Aldo Leopold when we need him?
Created on 2005-01-06 22:41:53 (#5674049), last updated 2009-06-15
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Basic Info| Name: | Chris Black |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1982-09-04 |
| Location: | Urbana, Illinois, United States |
| Website: | bodger.org |
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lj@bodger.org BioThird-person version: Chris is lurking somewhere in the building, or failing that walking around on the roof or gone bicycling or rock-climbing. Feed him garlic.
First-person version: Actually, I'm probably just at school. Please think of me as an unschooler. I see no conflict between the previous two sentences.
Four nucleotides arranged in words of three letters make life; add a half-dozen principles of selection and wait a few million years, and voila: we have both sunflowers and penguins. Twelve tones arranged on a five-line staff make music; add four pages of simple rules to produce the style of J.S. Bach. Swap the rules for five pages using the same twelve tones; get counterpoint like Palestrina's. Two digits encoded as electric charges on silicon make anything you care to dream of; add an idea or they'll just keep being zeroes and ones. The watch may, in the end, be more complicated than the watchmaker.
This is the way of the universe. Complex results come from simple ingredients. I work with computers and music because they let me restrict the rules of the system I'm building. I work with living plants because I don't even know all the rules of the system. But remember that the rules aren't really there. We made them up in order to describe the glorious, messy, complex, illogical diversity that we found pre-extant.
An organizational note: I post when I have something to say, which isn't often by blogospheric standards. There's no set topic, although it's likely to involve the sort of thing that I mention in the previous paragraphs. Past content may not predict future performance; readers can and do lose interest. Nothing I post is friends-locked in any way; you are welcome to browse with or without putting me on any of your lists.
First-person version: Actually, I'm probably just at school. Please think of me as an unschooler. I see no conflict between the previous two sentences.
Four nucleotides arranged in words of three letters make life; add a half-dozen principles of selection and wait a few million years, and voila: we have both sunflowers and penguins. Twelve tones arranged on a five-line staff make music; add four pages of simple rules to produce the style of J.S. Bach. Swap the rules for five pages using the same twelve tones; get counterpoint like Palestrina's. Two digits encoded as electric charges on silicon make anything you care to dream of; add an idea or they'll just keep being zeroes and ones. The watch may, in the end, be more complicated than the watchmaker.
This is the way of the universe. Complex results come from simple ingredients. I work with computers and music because they let me restrict the rules of the system I'm building. I work with living plants because I don't even know all the rules of the system. But remember that the rules aren't really there. We made them up in order to describe the glorious, messy, complex, illogical diversity that we found pre-extant.
An organizational note: I post when I have something to say, which isn't often by blogospheric standards. There's no set topic, although it's likely to involve the sort of thing that I mention in the previous paragraphs. Past content may not predict future performance; readers can and do lose interest. Nothing I post is friends-locked in any way; you are welcome to browse with or without putting me on any of your lists.
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biology, blues, botany, css, dumpster diving, ecology, forbs, gis, green woodwork, history, lilypond, linux, nbtsc, os x, peace, photography, potstickers, roots, solar power, standards, tex, the bills, unix, windmills
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Schools:
Reed College - Portland, OR (2004 - 2008)
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