Author Archives: Anton

more chainmail

This image, which I made a few years ago, is based on a tiling of the hyperbolic plane with triangles whose angles are π/2, π/3, π/7. Other than the 7, which can be changed to any higher integer, I couldn’t … Continue reading

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try this analogy on for size

An anarchist who uses the Internet is as hypocritical as a Protestant who uses the Latin alphabet.

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another thought that I’m never likely to have occasion to apply

If one has the luxury of designing a calendar from scratch, it might be good to put leap day at aphelion, where its angular value is least.

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grand reopening

New location, same erratic service! The old address (ogre.nu) should work as a redirect until that domain expires on March 28.

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more hyperbolic stuff

I put a series of tilings of the hyperbolic plane on Wikimedia Commons.

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the domain of cheapness

When I registered my domain, about 1998, .nu was the cheapest registry. It’s now €30/year. Before renewal is due (March 28) I should move to a cheaper address. (Yeah, I said the same two years ago. This time around, I … Continue reading

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one difference between a loony loner and a policeman

When some solitary nut shoots a little girl by mistake, he doesn’t have an Internal Affairs Department to certify that he followed all procedures correctly.

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