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I have been on xanga and now that it might soon end on July 15 I decided to go back to blogging on Blogger.

A thought idea I did this morning:

Indoctrination vs thinking outside the box

The things you accept is due to indoctrination. Sometimes the things you accept is from the ideas of others that is designed to convince you of a sort of truth. The truth within everyone varies and in some cases is similar enough to other truths. When people have to carry out their version of the truth that is when truth is crystalized or refined.

Crystalizing the truth. Many ideas need to be tested. You test it under different conditions. Test it under different concepts and other points of view. For example the "truth" of an earth centric idea seemingly worked because people could see at least face value that the earth appeared to be steady and not moving while the sun and the moon "moved around the earth".

It is easy to see shadows are evidence that the sun is moving because the tall trees are "stationary" and the sun moves. But the puzzlement that astronomers had was predicting the movements of planets and other objects in the sky. If you sum up all movements of the planets is due to them traveling around the sun the calculations become enormously simplified instead of a super complicated dance of planets if the model of the solar system revolved around the earth.

The Catholic church had to accept their mistake eventually and the earth lost a bit of prestige and eventually even the Church admitted its mistake.

Little known Spring of Griffith park

On the south side of Griffith Park there may be a few springs that flow from the Griffith Park mountain. When Wilton Place ends above Franklin there is a constant trickle into the street from a location near the dead end sign. If you follow it, it leads to a pond on private property which is filled by a natural spring. More pictures are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82647779@N00/?saved=1

Toyon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyon
They claim that the Hills around Hollywood were named after the Toyon Bush/tree. In the 20's they were so popular that California passed a law forbidding the picking of the Christmas berries.

The picture posted of my bike and a toyon tree is along the 5 freeway and the Griffth Park bikeway. Most likely it was planted but along the whole path you will not find another.

I tasted the berry and it was a bit astringent and like an old apple where it starts to be starchy.

Patching the sun window

Last sunday I helped Eugene Patch the sun window on the Heritage house. We scraped it a little and added vinyl caulk. We painted it white and await the next storm to test it. Next is to patch the roof on the archive.

Went also to Big lots in Downtown. It is great they have a place to put you packages before shoping. I bought a package of beef Jerky for $2.80 for 3.5 oz of the stuff. Usually beef jerky (not chopped) is over $1.00 an oz....

Helping to send books

Historical society of Chinatown is sending books around to different libraries. I will be helping out and being paid a bit...

It sure beats tv installation for a short while...