Yesterday I was putting up curtains at home. If you’ve ever done that, you know that the key is accuracy.<\/p>\n
You need to take your time with measuring tape and a level, marking everything carefully on your wall before drilling the first hole. And then, just to make sure, it’s a good idea to check your work after every step.<\/p>\n
I prefer to use a metric measuring tape. It’s simply easier for me to take and remember exact measurements in millimeters, rather than trying to work with eighths or sixteenths of an inch.<\/p>\n
There was one moment when I was using my metric measuring tape, and I realized that something was slightly off. And I found myself saying to myself “just one pixel over.”<\/p>\n
Hearing that thought in my head, I realized that I was working through this as a problem in computer graphics. Only in this case, the pixels happened to be in the physical world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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