Author Archives: Anton

there are things I’d rather have than WiFi

Posted on Saturday, 2004 December 04 by Anton

Matt Smith on confused telecoms policy in San Francisco. So that’s why I so often get bad connections there!

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Randome

Posted on Friday, 2004 December 03 by Anton

Dick Fischbeck has a new website for a kind of structure that he calls Randome, formed of overlapping shallow cones.

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movies recently rented

Posted on Friday, 2004 December 03 by Anton

Ballada o Soldate (1959). A Russian soldier wins a brief leave to go visit his mother, and has encounters and mishaps on the way. A simple tale, gorgeously shot. Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Sex, violence and cross-examination. Includes George … Continue reading →

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one at a time

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 01 by Anton

Got a spam today (or rather almost got it: Pobox’s filter rejected it) whose Subject line is: abuse, destructPon or wanton takWng of a ljfe. Qt vs a crome no less than burnbng the Mona LFsa, for there Cs always … Continue reading →

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that’s all she staked

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 01 by Anton

So now I’ve seen the very last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gotta say the final season drags more than a bit, because of a near absence of the lighter “Monster of the Week” episodes that, in most seasons, … Continue reading →

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go read

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 November 30 by Anton

Radley Balko: Who Is Being ‘Unserious’ on the Terror War? They hate our policies, not our freedom The Case for a Partitioned Iraq