Author Archives: Anton

fun with topology

Posted on Friday, 2005 June 17 by Anton

It’s surprising that I had not heard before of the mathematical sculptor Rinus Roelofs. His Möbius-double could be seen as a metaphor for half-spin particles.

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goody linkness

Posted on Thursday, 2005 June 16 by Anton

John Cowan writes: There’s a Dell one and a Sun one And a Blue one and a Compaq one And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky And they all run just the same. One patient’s account of depression lifted by … Continue reading →

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crickets chirping

Posted on Thursday, 2005 June 16 by Anton

This site’s traffic declined sharply in May; likely because referral spam suddenly went out of style.

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tales from the black box

Posted on Thursday, 2005 June 16 by Anton

Wow. Shortly after Simon Ng posted this blog entry — . . . today has been weird, at 3 some guy ringed the bell. I went down and recognized it was my sister’s former boyfriend. He told me he wants … Continue reading →

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damned if you don’t

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 June 15 by Anton

I’m likely to want to refer to this later: One of his friends was contemplating becoming involved in a drug-distribution scheme, and telephoned Nguyen for advice. After a lengthy conversation, Nguyen advised the friend to stay away from the scheme, … Continue reading →

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adventures in fruit

Posted on Sunday, 2005 June 12 by Anton

New experience of the day: I found a little white spider in a bunch of Mexican grapes.

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a gap in the library

Posted on Friday, 2005 June 10 by Anton

Latin ecce, Italian ecco, Russian vot, French voilà, Esperanto jen — the nearest English equivalent I can think of is lo!, which is not in most bilingual dictionaries, for the same reason English-speakers know the word voilà. So how do … Continue reading →

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