i learned so much about subversion yesterday (actually about branching and merging repositories). we are doing a new repository structure, and are going to start branching/merging like we're supposed to. i think it'll be fun and cool, although sort of a waste of time for the current state of our shop, but w/e. eventually it'll pay off, and i've not branched/merged much.

Today I learned that (American) football used to be called "Elevens" because of the amount of players on field. Apparently, the"Twelves" were what the fans are called. This now makes the "Sixth Man" club in my high school much more sense, because they cheered for basketball and whatnot. Also, I learned a ton about animals, because I went to the Philadelphia Zoo with the band to play for its anniversary. Fun!

I learnt about this site and these awesome smilies. 

I also learnt that i should have done my homework an hour ago and now I have to do it now.

I learned that sight is our eyes (receptors within the eye) picking up light being reflected giving us the X, Y, and Z - axis co-ordinates of the objects reflecting the light, this stimulates a part of our brain which then makes an image out of the information (colour aswell). If you are encapable of determining locations of objects in this fashion you'll see things very differently like for instance seeing things farther away literally shrink or see thinks in a 2-D fashion instead of 3-D.

If you were blind from the beginning (your brain has matured) or gone a long period of time before the parts of your brain responsible for sight could develop (or they degenerated if over that period of time) in those areas then if you acquire sight then you'll:
A) be encapable of seeing still objects, but can still perceive moving objects clearly. 
B) have to learn everything again because your hand-eye coordination, depth perception, ability to recognise and respond via sight is the equivalent of a baby's (if not worse). And again everything will be a 2-D plain and really really horrible vision (if it isn't moving it's extremely blurred).
C) encapable of recognising faces, expressions, or well anything involving visual cues.
and lastly D) cope with it i.e. shutting your eyes, or damaging your eyes to make yourself blind again (in other words going back to being blind), delve into a state of confusion and depression, and if not that then kill yourself.

Also that if you train yourself to determine everything with sound cues (location, height of object, distance, etc.) then you can literally see sound because the parts of the brain responsible for determining those things for sight is interconnected with sound and would thus after enough stimulation make a colourless picture (think sonar, atleast one person has managed to do it).

All in all, I learned that I should never tell a blind person to aquire sight if they've gone a long long time without it. Becuase they'd probably go into a depression, commit suicide, or just go back to being blind.

I learned a ridiculous amount of calculus today. *crosses fingers for midterm tomorrow*

Like... partial derivatives and vector functions.

I know that if you are capable of comprehending math and patterns then you can make music, Baethoven most likely did it this way. Both math and music go hand in hand and if you can comprehend one thing then you can do the other with some out of box thinking.

Think of music as this, do - re - mi - la - so, and put those into patterns that go in 4/4s or 5/8s of a second and bam you just made music. In fact theres people out there who can only perceive sounds as the old school do - re - mi - la - so way. If you can determine what each sound would be whether it's a do or me then you can write stuff on par with Baethoven and never hear what it actually sounds like. You just have to understand what the math behind each instrument is. But thats writing sheet music.

Too true (popular science btw).

If you were blind from the beginning (your brain has matured) or gone a long period of time before the parts of your brain responsible for sight could develop (or they degenerated if over that period of time) in those areas then if you acquire sight then you'll:
A) be encapable of seeing still objects, but can still perceive moving objects clearly.

What a great excuse for a sneaking scene. But seriously, is there a common sense explanation for this, or does it go all neuro psychology? Now that I think of it, it actually sounds reasonable. If you're not used to recognizing shapes you can't determine what's the background and what's the object, or something like that? Like alright, there's a vertical line, but is it the edge of the sofa or a line in the wallpaper. Still sounds damn weird though. Sight related things can be pretty good brainfucks.


Aaaaaa, my lecture is starting and all I can think of is my vision.

ffffffffffff there's not an a in Beethoven