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I’m colour deficient. (I’m explicitly *not* colour-blind.) No, I’m not sensitive about the matter, that’s more in jest. The origins of the distinction date back to Grade 1 though: I mention to friends in class:
“hey, I’m colour blind!”
they ask: “what colour’s this?”
“blue”
“what colour’s that?”
“black”
“and this?”
“yellow”
“what about and that?”
“pink”
“you’re not colour blind!”
Ha! Well, we were seven [...]

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UPDATE: Blackmore, not Blackwell… I’m sure Tinus means Blackmore when he writes about “Blackwell”.
On 18 December a Tinus de Bruyn left a lengthy comment on my about page. (That’s the page titled You New?) It ended up in the moderation queue due to it containing more than one link. It isn’t the kind of material [...]

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Just some eye candy for you to enjoy, as I might only blog again on Saturday. (Keeping a pseudo-regular schedule will be fun.)

This is from The Bad Astronomer’s Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2007.

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