Author Archives: Anton

Studio Gibberish

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 June 22 by Anton

Miyazaki’s film (ハウルの動く城) of Diana Wynne Jones’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle is pretty, of course, but the story got lost somewhere. The royal sorceress has an unexplained grudge against Howl, an eccentric but kind young wizard with an unexplained reputation … Continue reading →

Posted in cinema | Leave a comment

the asynchronous world

Posted on Monday, 2005 June 20 by Anton

WiReD summarizes the work of Kiwi maverick philosopher Peter Lynds: His answers make the mathematics of space and time look strange. If instants don’t exist, then calculus – in which equations depend on fixed before-and-after positions in space – doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in sciences | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in eye-candy, mathematics | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in psychology | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in me!me!me!, spam | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in blogdom | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in drugwar | Leave a comment