Author Archives: Anton

we become our parents

Spent yester evening with stepbrother and his rentmate. Conversation was largely about mathematics, and at some point they both got the giggles because (they said) I was manifesting mannerisms that they recognized from having taken physics from the same professor. … Continue reading

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but you can, it seems, temporarily withhold the sky from me

The opening of Serenity has been postponed from April 22 to September 30. Joss Whedon says: April got crowded with a lot of titles aimed at a similar demographic, and the studio [Universal Pictures] decided September was a clearer corridor … Continue reading

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Buffy the School Counselor

I felt a bit silly for not recognizing Jonathan Woodward when he played the vampire in Buffy 7:7 “Conversations with Dead People”. He looked familiar but I thought it was only because he resembles young Bill Murray. Then in the … Continue reading

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all of you, you’re nothing but random seeds!

On BART today, a fellow passenger saw me making notes on paper and occasionally looking up, and got the idea that I was taking statistics on the passengers. No, I said, I’m doing math for my own entertainment. He sat … Continue reading

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skin

The weather is now wintry enough that the backs of my hands have suddenly begun to go dry and red. This is my second or third winter with that effect. Haven’t found anything really effective for it. Most creams are … Continue reading

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for fish fans

This evening my One True Ex and I had yet another dinner that couldn’t be beat, at Ichiban, 22560 Foothill Blvd (at B St.), Hayward, 510-537-4466. Do me a favor and don’t tell them that their prices are too low.

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look at the pretty colors

From numbers tabulated by The Glittering Eye: the horizontal axis is the tax-consumption ratio, the vertical is the logarithm of income per capita. One extreme outlier is omitted, without guilt as it’s a special case. In a perfect world the … Continue reading

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