Undiscipline Posted Tue, 10 Apr 2007

I think it's good exercise to write on ruled or graph paper but to attempt to ignore the lines on the paper completely.

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For my whole life I've been unabled to write correctly following the lines.

Since my beginning with writing (at the ages of 6), I cannot remember one single sentence who will start on one line and not finish on another.

Call it "talent" ?
Posted by Ploum at Tue Apr 10 15:06:19 2007
I can only aspire to such a disability. I'm quite jealous.
Posted by mako at Tue Apr 10 15:17:44 2007
unruly :)
Posted by Kai Hendry at Tue Apr 10 20:23:49 2007
In fact, Kai. :)
Posted by mako at Tue Apr 10 21:18:06 2007
My teachers didn't.
Posted by Thomas at Wed Apr 11 02:40:34 2007
i'm off the boring sort i suppose, but i really hate to leave empty space on a paper, so i try to keep the lines as straight as possible even when writing on blank paper, that way nothing goes to waste.
Posted by ontheboringside at Sat Apr 14 19:17:48 2007
Hehe, you just completely wiped out planet ubuntu =)
Posted by Corey at Mon Apr 16 14:45:46 2007
You mean planet Mako? ;)
Posted by Tristan Rhodes at Mon Apr 16 15:23:06 2007
Or perhaps Mako is perfecting the art of undiscipline via this act of undiscipline?

On a serious note, this kind of problem is common on planets.  Anytime someone makes a large change to their blog there is a chance that the time-stamps will be updated.  This is probably why we are seeing all Mako's posts again.

I think Planets should have a threshold that will automatically prevent these errors from clobbering all other posts.  Some type of rate-limiting would seem to make sense.  For instance, only allow any one feed to make 5 posts a day.  This should allow the author to see the mistake (or be told about it) without a large impact on the planet.  This should be easy to implement, and will not impose a restriction on most authors.

What do you all think?

Tristan
Posted by Tristan Rhodes at Mon Apr 16 15:52:41 2007
doh... I was looking for some recent post linked from planet ubuntu... and you pushed it out of both the planet, and my rss reader :)

cyberterrorism at its fines :D
Posted by muszek at Mon Apr 16 16:58:40 2007
Wait, you miss the lines on purpose?  :)
Posted by Anonymous at Mon Apr 16 18:06:30 2007
Hah. I search high and low for narrow-rule paper to keep me conserving space -- because I am a lot more likely to continue writing on a page that already has writing on it than to start a blank page.

Exercise, Level II: be as free within the lines as you are without them.

Exercise, Level III: there were lines?
Posted by Kat at Mon Apr 30 01:47:57 2007

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