Author Archives: Anton

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 →

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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 →

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wiggly lines

Posted on Friday, 2010 August 13 by Anton

A few people will recognize immediately how and why I did this.

Posted in heraldry, mathematics | 3 Comments

so many misspellings, so little time

Posted on Tuesday, 2010 August 10 by Anton

My Wikipedia watchlist grew beyond my ability to keep up with it, so I cut it back from 3082 to 1502.

Posted in general | 1 Comment

neologism of the day

Posted on Tuesday, 2010 August 10 by Anton

I don’t care to log in at Kos for one comment, so I’ll put it here. Daily Kos writes: What natural means isn’t specified. But I’m sure there’s an Tex-aytollah somewhere ready to let us know. Allow me to suggest … Continue reading →

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