Author Archives: Anton

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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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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font moan

Posted on Friday, 2005 June 10 by Anton

I moved from Mozilla to Firefox and found that the font menu has changed. I don’t know where each app looks for its fonts; they’re not neatly integrated in Linux as in MacOS. I don’t like any of them as … Continue reading →

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Why can’t the English learn to speak?

Posted on Thursday, 2005 June 09 by Anton

Got an idea just now that might sell a few copies: Monty Python Annotated for Americans, containing answers to such questions as “What dialect is Palin doing in this bit?” This thought was prompted by watching My Fair Lady. In … Continue reading →

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our little medium is all grown up

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 June 08 by Anton

Got a junk call (from 214-279-0990) just now on my mobile telephone. I think it’s my first ever in seven years. In unrelated news, the humidity that was just barely unpleasant earlier today is now coming down as a very … Continue reading →

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distributed knowledge wins

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 June 07 by Anton

I’ve heard that Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992) started thinking about spontaneous order because of an incident in the Great War. Austrian forces were routed in a battle in Italy, and fled leaderless through the mountains; and far more of them … Continue reading →

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commiseration to Ms Raich

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 June 07 by Anton

Reading an account of oral arguments in Ashcroft Gonzales v. Raich, a couple of months ago, gave me a sinking feeling: the Court was clearly hostile and the good guys were failing to make what I considered obvious points. Guess … Continue reading →

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