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All right, John, what's on the list this week?

Last week you mentioned maybe talking about Markdown, but we never got to it.

Yeah, maybe we won't get to it this week, because every time I think I have a topic I want to talk about, news happens,

but before we get to any news stuff, I think we should do a little bit of follow-up

from last week. So the title of last week's episode and one of these stories I

relayed during the episode was Paths in the Grass.

And I mentioned that it was a story that I had heard originally in, I think it was a keynote speech at an open source conference from Larry Wall talking about how some university in California didn't put in sidewalks but just let people walk wherever they

wanted on the grass and then figured out where the trails were worn in the grass and

then put in sidewalks there. And I couldn't remember the name of the university so I

looked it up after the show and actually I was off what Larry Wall said in his thing was it was the University of California at Irvine campus that did this.

And then of course many other people said well this you know this may just be an urban legend, which is true.

The same story has been attributed to many schools.

Maybe many schools actually do this.

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