Author Archives: Anton

David Bowie

Somehow I never had anything by David Bowie in my collection (other than a German version of “Heroes” on some sampler album, and “Under Pressure” on the Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack) until recently when I picked up Best of Bowie … Continue reading

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Single White Female

A key scene in the above-titled flick cannot work unless the two leads have very similar breasts; and now I’m curious about the casting process.

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Bramble post Rocky

Rockstar, a cat of 13 years, died in August. Since then his brother Bramble has shown some changes. He seems to have put on weight, and vomits far less often, making me suspect that Rocky used to nudge him away … Continue reading

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ugh

I had two dreams of futility this morning, which could be a sign that the antidepressant that I’ve been taking since November is losing effectiveness. Or possibly melatonin, that I recently started taking, disagrees with me.

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sequences

A cartoon, in which Churchy LaFemme tries to imagine a skyscraper with no 13th floor, leads me to the idea of labeling the floors with some other familiar sequence; for example, Genesis, Exodus … but it might be hard to … Continue reading

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Taylor series of integral of exponential of Fourier series

I have experimented with integrals of exp(i·f(t)) where ”f(t)” is a polynomial. I express these integrals as Taylor series, which are not hard to generate. Now I’d like to try f(t) = a·t + Σbk·sin(k·t) and I have a horrid … Continue reading

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42 … or 34?

My new keyboard came last week, a Piantor Pro from Beekeeb, a two-person shop in Hong Kong. Quality work. But the keys are narrower than my fingers (on average), and the deep pinky stagger – offset of the pinky finger’s … Continue reading

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