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heard around the architectural studio #014

May 21, 2014 by Bob Borson 20 Comments

We decided that we wanted donuts this morning. Ryan offered to go pick some up but there was a request to get an old fashioned cake donut – which Ryan had never heard of before. As we all launched in trying to describe the appearance of a cake donut, it was clear based on the look on Ryan’s face that we weren’t doing a very good job. To remedy that problem, I reached for my roll of trace and said:


 

“Here, I’ll draw you a cross-section so you can see the difference in density between a plain donut and an old fashioned “cake” donut …“

Ryan said back to me

“Or … we could simply look one up on the internet.“

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Yes, I suppose we could do that.

 

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