Author Archives: Anton

webcomics update

Posted on Sunday, 2010 October 17 by Anton

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life came back to life in July, after 15 months dormant. That doesn’t happen every day!

Posted in cartoons | 5 Comments

toward a graceful imitation of the crude

Posted on Friday, 2010 October 15 by Anton

I’ve long had an idea to design “outline” typefaces which, at appropriate low resolution, would mimic certain bitmap fonts that have sentimental resonance. The orange discs are the original dots, of course. The blue arcs are least-squares fits (linear, quadratic) … Continue reading →

Posted in curve-fitting | Tagged font, Plato IV | 3 Comments

superstition and the market

Posted on Thursday, 2010 October 14 by Anton

The local Humane Society has such a hard time placing black cats that it offers a deep discount on the adoption fee.

Posted in Cascadia, pets, religion | 3 Comments

yet another flavor of referral spam

Posted on Friday, 2010 October 08 by Anton

In September, some clown created “user profiles” on thousands of sites in the names jennyl8221, jamessylar33, alberty788, melvinwong522, jinnlost5, rickdcurry82, jeffsmith7223, davemartial223. How do I know this? My HTTP log shows two thousand hits (most of them from customers of … Continue reading →

Posted in spam | 1 Comment

flooded

Posted on Tuesday, 2010 September 21 by Anton

I’ve had seven hundred spam comments in a week. If you got swept up in the purge, please do try again.

Posted in spam | 2 Comments

to save some integrating

Posted on Saturday, 2010 September 04 by Anton

For my own future reference, in case I lose the bit of paper on which I jotted it. In a function of period 2π, a unit step discontinuity in the nth derivative at phase α contributes this to the Fourier … Continue reading →