Author Archives: Anton

how do people talk?

Posted on Monday, 2011 February 14 by Anton

When (American) TV actors utter the phrase “What are you doing here?”, as I must have heard dozens of times lately, they nearly always emphasize doing — and I nearly always think it would make more sense to emphasize either … Continue reading →

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potential merch

Posted on Monday, 2011 February 14 by Anton

Do any of these 15 designs inspire you to buy a coffee cup?

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more chainmail

Posted on Saturday, 2011 February 12 by Anton

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 →

Posted in eye-candy, mathematics | 1 Comment

try this analogy on for size

Posted on Thursday, 2011 February 03 by Anton

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

Posted in language, politics, religion | 2 Comments

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

Posted on Monday, 2011 January 31 by Anton

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

Posted on Saturday, 2011 January 29 by Anton

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

Posted on Tuesday, 2011 January 25 by Anton

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

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