Author Archives: Anton

guess what

Travis doesn’t like “bioethicists” either.

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okCupid

I trust you sha’n’t be shocked to know that my social life is dead enough to drive me to sign up on a matchmaking website. It’s rather entertaining, actually. I am amazed (and a wee bit dismayed) that only two … Continue reading

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there are things I’d rather have than WiFi

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

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

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

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

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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