Author Archives: Anton

referral spam

Posted on Saturday, 2016 January 02 by Anton

Each month I look through my HTTP log for new incoming links. Most of them are phony. In December, Russian porno was up and other commercial spam was down.

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allonymy

Posted on Tuesday, 2015 December 29 by Anton

A notice to renew my domain registration prompts thoughts of what I might have used instead: ansher, anwood, tonsher, tonwood ? tonsher reminds me of an acquaintance whose bald spot looks uncannily like a monk’s tonsure — and that’s even funnier … Continue reading →

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Scribbles: The Ensmoothening, Part II

Posted on Sunday, 2015 December 20 by Anton

One thing I noticed in that last series of charts is that more than one degree of discontinuity doesn’t help: the best-looking curves are mostly on the diagonal, where only the last nonzero derivative is discontinuous. Here, therefore, are those … Continue reading →

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ensmoothening scribbles

Posted on Sunday, 2015 December 06 by Anton

Presented for your consideration: the somewhat disappointing results of an experiment in using piecewise polynomial spirals, of varying degrees of continuity, to fit the Takana — disappointing in that few if any of the curves are as pretty as I … Continue reading →

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is insincere appreciation better than nothing?

Posted on Wednesday, 2015 November 18 by Anton

This may be the most effusive comment ever received on this modest blog: Thanks so much for providing individuals with remarkably terrific opportunity to discover important secrets from here. It is usually so fantastic and as well , full of … Continue reading →

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pseudohistorical linguistics

Posted on Monday, 2015 November 09 by Anton

I can’t remember how much I knew of Elvish languages before The Silmarillion, with a glossary, appeared in 1978. Can you tell from the text of The Lord of the Rings (not counting the Appendices) that Quenya and Sindarin are … Continue reading →

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a new twist

Posted on Saturday, 2015 October 03 by Anton

Each month I check my HTTP referral logs, and find that nearly all of the “referring” pages that I haven’t seen before are spam. Usually there are also a few sites showing one of my images as examples of some … Continue reading →

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