Single White Female

Posted on Thursday, 2025 January 02 by Anton

A key scene in the above-titled flick cannot work unless the two leads have very similar breasts; and now I’m curious about the casting process.

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Bramble post Rocky

Posted on Thursday, 2024 November 07 by Anton

Rockstar, a cat of 13 years, died in August. Since then his brother Bramble has shown some changes. He seems to have put on weight, and vomits far less often, making me suspect that Rocky used to nudge him away from the food dish and thus Bramble ate too quickly.

Bramble has also become much more needy of attention, frequently getting between me and food or work.

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ugh

Posted on Monday, 2024 September 09 by Anton

I had two dreams of futility this morning, which could be a sign that the antidepressant that I’ve been taking since November is losing effectiveness.
Or possibly melatonin, that I recently started taking, disagrees with me.

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sequences

Posted on Sunday, 2024 March 03 by Anton
A cartoon, in which Churchy LaFemme tries to imagine a skyscraper with no 13th floor, leads me to the idea of labeling the floors with some other familiar sequence; for example, Genesis, Exodus … but it might be hard to get occupants for suites on Lamentations. In Japan, the ground floor could be named for the era in which it is built (currently Reiwa), the next for the preceding (Heisei) and so on; an extremely high tower would boast of reaching Taika.
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Taylor series of integral of exponential of Fourier series

Posted on Tuesday, 2024 January 16 by Anton

I have experimented with integrals of

exp(i·f(t))

where ”f(t)” is a polynomial. I express these integrals as Taylor series, which are not hard to generate. Now I’d like to try

f(t) = a·t + Σbk·sin(k·t)

and I have a horrid feeling that the Taylor series will be a nightmare!

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42 … or 34?

Posted on Tuesday, 2023 November 14 by Anton

My new keyboard came last week, a Piantor Pro from Beekeeb, a two-person shop in Hong Kong. Quality work.

But the keys are narrower than my fingers (on average), and the deep pinky stagger – offset of the pinky finger’s column of keys – is hard to get used to, after fifty years of conventional typing. To mitigate the problem I made the outer columns repeat their neighbors. I had planned to avoid using them anyway, as practice for maybe someday moving to a board like Ferris without those columns.

Too often after hitting a key on the upper row, I also hit its neighbor below. So I’m considering replacing the nearly flat keycaps with a more traditional style so that my fingers can more easily find the boundaries between them; and if that doesn’t help, replacing the very light switches with stiffer ones for the lower rows.

Anyway. I’ve been fiddling with different algorithms to find an arrangement of the 30 core keys – letters and selected punctuation – that minimizes a crude measure of inconvenience. Continue reading →

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whither arrows

Posted on Friday, 2023 October 20 by Anton

In anticipation of my next keyboard, I have been doodling layouts of the non-alpha layers, as one does. Today let’s discuss arrow keys. Continue reading →

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